Mind Numbing

Similar to what we've selected for the basement

I HATE shopping. Man, I really hate it. I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but each time I do it I am reminded of my loathing.

This weekend's journey's have been focused mainly on furniture -- a process that started in earnest a few weeks ago. As we've started to unpack and work ourselves in to the new place our needs have become better defined. There are several rooms that need to be addressed.

Furnishings end up influencing all of the other decisions so it's a pretty big deal to get it right, especially since furniture isn't all that easy to dispose of if you don't. That's a lot of pressure. And then...there is Fort Wayne. Oh, Fort Wayne, your demographic's tastes in decor just don't match ours very well. Chicago is great. I'm sure we can find stuff there (although it's expensive), but that's a trip we don't have time for right now. Very hard to get a solid grasp of details and build quality on-line, though it works for some things.

We go to place after place and find maybe one or two things that kinda', might, sorta' work. It takes a lot of determination to keep at it. Eventually, as with so many decisions relating to the decor, we eventually become beat down enough that getting it done outweighs our desire to get what we really want...assuming we even know what that is.

We've become quite puzzled about the mechanical characteristics of bedroom furniture. It's function is primarily for storage. So logically one would think there'd be good attention to that aspect in the design, and specifically in getting drawers open and closed. But we find that even in many of the very expensive high-end products the drawers are just wood sliding on some plastic thing. They don't really have a nice, fluid feel when opening or closing. Often times we find the really cheap stuff actually feels better to use due to something as simple as rolling slides. Admittedly the quality and fit of rolling slides can vary widely, but why would anyone pay $2000 for a dresser whose drawers are hard to open and close? When I observe a trend like this -- where my sensibility clearly doesn't match the market's -- I begin to wonder if I'm weird.

Bedroom: Tough to decide how important this is. WE see it and use it a lot, but hardly anyone else will. The storage aspect is important though. We ended up with this because it was one of the very few we liked the look of. The price was right,  but the drawers don't have rolling slides. I compromised.