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One Oak Daybed in need of TLC and Woodoc

I bought a day bed!  No, it isn’t a Mr Price Home Flatpack, but a solid oak daybed!  Yes, it cost me a small fortune, and would need a lot of TLC and Woodoc, but I reckon

• that it’ll suit my lifestyle better than something metal!
• that it would be worth keeping even if I eventually upgrade to a different, larger apartment or house somewhere

Now to get it to Rustenburg…

10-04-2010

The bed was delivered this morning!  WOW - it actually looks better in reality than on the picture!  However, it WILL need a bit of sanding.  Someone decided it would be a good idea to coat the bed in varnish, and that varnish is now yucky!  What the picture doesn’t show, either, are the copper plates that hold the wood together.  I cleaned that with some metal cleaner and it looks GREAT.

 

Having made more sums, and coming to the conclusion that I might have to pay in some on the kitchen that I want, I realised that whatever big furniture and appliance purchases I have envisioned for the near future would have to wait! Instead, I’ll have to go modular - bit by bit and piece by piece! That’s not a bad idea, either! It means that my interior would grow and evolve organically, instead of all at once in the same boring style! After all, I might see something that I like better somewhere else sometime in the future… (Something more “me”, whatever that may mean!)

What I did find on my scouting trips,though, were these blocks from Lotter’s Pine. They’re pretty inexpensive and solid wood, and can be stacked any-which-how I want them to be! PLUS if I buy the raw wood, I can stain them into the colours I want as well! So, what I plan to do in the next few months is to buy one or two blocks a month, until I have the shelving that I need!

Methinks this would be an excellent way to keep out of trouble… Physically as well as financially!