Modern Furniture

Thinking about furniture Cathy.. what about www.ikea.co.uk ? Tis a kids friendly furniture store with a branch in Cardiff and one in Bristol too.. lose the sprogs in the play area.. usually a big room filled with coloured balls to five into and swim around in (fantastic) and spend an hour wandering through mocked up room installations. Their motto is *cheaper than the wood* and Gem and I went along to the one in Brent Cross and sorted out our wardrobe requirements in one go. Mine is a light oak looking neat little affair all flat pack for thirty and Gem's was even cheaper which is like a mini green house with a curtain across. Unflattening the flat pack took us both under an hour and you'd get a couple in the pug... kids on top! Bonus is the automatic diy MrWhippy icecreams for 35 pence a pop at the end of the process. It's like Habitat was years ago but better and it'd get the laundry off the floor. We've lashed out on a John Lewis bargain too in the form of AEG washer dryer for a third off with tiny dent which has a 1600rpm spin so skiddys are back in the draw before you can say "knife". It's just landed actually as fifty minutes ago I shoved our London grimy curtains in there so lets get them back up... laters