We are currently in the process of furnishing our home, and with that comes A LOT of flat-pack furniture! Flat-pack furniture is huge here, mainly because most of the homes have these tiny little staircases. So in general, you just order the furniture in its flat-pack boxes, get those boxes up to the room where the piece will be located, and then assemble it. Our wardrobe (which took 7 hours to construct!) can't make it out of the room now without being disassembled. The quality has been good though, and we have gotten very good with putting things together now. We even bought an electric screwdriver this weekend to help speed up the process even more. =)
To complete the furniture purchasing for our new house, we traveled to London yesterday to visit the giant of flat-pack furniture - IKEA. We spent 3 1/2 hours through that giant store and are now waiting for the final pieces of the guest room wardrobe to be delivered so we can have it all set up for guests. =) (Quick note - I almost had a mental breakdown in the final pick-up areas of IKEA when we couldn't find the parts we needed for the wardrobe! That store is so overwhelming!)
Also as a note, as a result of all of this furniture, we have generated a lot of cardboard, styrofoam, etc. Our trash and recycle pick-up is quite interesting here - each one only gets picked up once a week. As a result, we have had to visit the local Recycling Center quite often lately! It's just this huge place where you can go to take extra household "rubbish" or recyclables that don't fit into your bins.
Final pictures of the house to come soon. We can't wait to be done with the purchasing and assembling of furniture!
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