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So we have the new couch! Two slight hiccups in the process;

1. Ikea forgot to deliver our shelves and desk at the same time. Their customer service was excellent though and they agreed to lower the delivery fee and guarantee delivery between 6-8pm tomorrow (today’s window was 8am-8pm so thats a huge improvement)

2. Our building, Capitol Hill Tower, has rules prohibiting delivery of furniture or other large items on Sundays. According to the concierge – ‘It’s in the bylaws’, yeah along with about 350 pages of other interesting tidbits which I now understand I need to read more carefully.  So I’m not upset with the concierge though it was too bad she wasn’t willing to bend the rules.  Luckily the delivery driver is a sneaky guy and really wnated to not take the couch back to Ikea and he got me outside away from the concierge and suggested wheeling the couch pieces on dolly’s through the main garage and up through the elevators. Apparantly he knows the parking attendant, long story short we go the couch in and I’m sitting on it now – very comfortable! (it didn’t work perfectly, the elevator opened in the lobby and the concierge got a great view of 3 guys and a couch stuffed in there!)

Here are some pics of the couch in the new place. It is an Ikea ‘Hamra’ style leather sectional and very comfortable and compact, it works even better in the room than we’d hoped. We are planning to add another chair of some sort to the left of it;

Also for your viewing pleasure, pictures of Erika, Lauren and I from the ballgame last night and views of the bedroom and Erika’s bathroom which are getting close to being finished;