elfa

We woke up on Saturday morning with plans of bike ride, work, reading, etc - normal weekend stuff. However, we've been thinking about rearranging our living room for some time. For some reason the solution hit us on Saturday morning - Elfa! This was actually pretty timely because this weekend was the last weekend of the Elfa sale at the Container Store. Elfa is a shelving "system" that can be used to organize garages, closets, kitchen pantries or create furniture solutions for desks, entertainment centers, bookshelves, etc.

It was something of a saga getting the shelving. The way it works is this: you go to the containter store and sign up for a designer, the designer then uses the computer to input your dimensions and desires in terms of options, this computer design then spits out all the brackets, shelves, and accessories that you'll need to put the thing together - yourself.

Well, since it was the last elfa sale weekend it was crazy at the Container store. On top of that, the entire Container Store computer network was down. Our design was done mostly by hand and there were some mistakes in terms of what could be done and what accessories were included (no fault of the designer - she was fantastic!). It took about two hours from the time we entered the store until we left the store. Sandy went back two or three times on Saturday and we both went back two or three times on Sunday.

Unfortunately, I didn't take any "before" pictures when the living room was arranged as it was before Saturday.

This is where we started on Sunday morning after moving out all of the old furniture, taking all the books and other items off of the old book shelves. The Elfa 'system' is on the left.


Yota did her part by holding the chair down:

This is a shot from about midway through:
This is a shot of how it looked when all was said and done lastnight:
Exciting stuff...