Nicki's such a great help!

I had to hang around the house all day, waiting for FedEx to show up with the Ikea purchases. He finally did, around 2:30 PM.

Nicki was eager to help unpack; as soon as I put the first box down, he was there to open it.

 

 

 

I don't know what it is about cardboard, but you can't leave it around Nicki, he goes to town "eating" it (chewing and spitting it out). I know many cats do this, but he's the only one I've had who does. It's a sickness.  :-P

 Again, you can see what a help he was unpacking all the pieces.

And that was about it for his help! He spent the rest of the time sleeping while I put the two tables together.

There's a smaller (but taller) table that can slide over the top of the coffee table; I put that upstairs in the guest room (no pic). It's not bad for such an inexpensive item. I wanted to try something that had an "airier" feel, because my living space seems so small and cramped to me. The furniture I have now is "heavy" in appearance and just seems to "weigh" the room down.

So far I like it and hope I don't break it the next time I clean. I'm not known for being careful around furniture when I haul the vacuum around!

I'll keep my eye out for a small tray or basket of some sort for the remotes and miscellaneous items.

The other item I got was a large floral canvas print for my bedroom. I unpacked the box but didn't take the print out of its packaging. I'll look at putting that up another day. I hadn't wanted to put holes in the wall again and got some 3M Command "tape" that supposedly will hang pictures and hold up to 12 pounds. The canvas print is about 6.5 pounds....but the 3M Command stuff said not to use it to hang anything over the bed. LOL. So I might be forced to find a stud and use a nail. (I loathe patching nail or screw holes in drywall.)

I'm glad the items actually arrived today, don't think I could take another day inside anyway. I have a number of errands to run tomorrow, before everything is closed again for New Year's Day. It'll be another early start!  :-)

Peace.