m2colvin: Beginnings of a Nursery

I originally planned to head up the mountains to be present for opening day at Keystone Ski Resort this past Friday, but I changed my mind and decided to stay home and spend the day with my wife instead. Naturally, this meant we would go to Ikea... which is exactly what we did.

From my experience with Ikea furniture, I knew it could be somewhat wobbly so I was very proud that the dresser we wanted seemed quite sturdy when I tried to rock it on the showroom floor during a previous shopping trip. When we got there we went to make sure that they still had what we wanted and I decided to give the display a good shake again just to be sure. Again, I was amazed at how the piece didn't budge despite the amount of raw man power I was using. At this point I decided to look at the footings of the dresser to see what gave it such amazing stability and realized that it had been bolted to the floor. On the plus side, I don't feel as weak now.

Anyway, I managed to get Melissa out of there without getting any meatballs and back home so I could start assembly on the furniture. I did the majority of the construction in the same fashion that I try to do most things around my house... without pants. Following are pics of the completed pieces (all of which I'm wearing pants in). Nothing fancy, but I think the white pieces look good in a green room (I doubt our U o fM family members will think so). Hahahahahahaha! Melissa said she'd never put our kid in MSU colors, but I guess they can sleep in a room with the same colors? On a side note, the dresser turned out to be quite sturdy without me having to bolt it to the floor!