Drawing up a plan

So where were we? Hmm. I think we were talking about places to put sheets. Not perhaps the most exciting start to a novel, but ok for a blog I think... and the story involves power tools. :)

We were given some money for our wedding, along with some lovely new sheets and towels. We decided to spend the money on a new chest of drawers. Problem was, after perusing ebay, second hand shops, argos, pine shops, department stores all chest of drawers we found that all chests of drawers are either rubbish, ugly or very expensive. We have long been fans of IKEA for affordable, functional furniture but to be honest after having moved house with it so many times the functionality of our furniture has become somewhat limited. It's all kind of rickety and drunkenly leaning on the nearest wall.

We wanted something solid, ie that you could sit on if you were so inclined, with wooden drawer bases that wouldn't plummet into the drawer below. Buying rubbish furniture seemed futile, and expensive furniture seemed silly whilst this:

Can you tell I love this picture? NO LONGER ON THE MARKET!!! BECAUSE IT'S SOLD!! :D:D

was in our lives. So, we went on a hunt for a loveable, strong, yet UGLY chest of drawers. It had to be local, it had to be mostly wood, it had to be big and it had to fit in the back of our 2003 Yaris. Well, a few hours of ebay stalking later, he was ours!

You can't tell too well from the above picture, but he was pretty beat up when we got him home. I think he'd lived near a basin at some point as a lot of the varnish was sort of chipping off. There was a very sticky patch where a little hook had been stuck on the side - maybe for a towel? I love that he came from a Georgian Bathothian residence. We picked him up from a flat which had just been bought by a girl, and he'd come with the flat when she bought it from an old lady. So he is a long-established Bath resident.

So, we were left with a slightly grubby, chipped and frankly a bit ugly chest of drawers in our dining room, and £40 in the chest of drawers budget. Off we went to Homebase! One of my favourite daytime places!!