So after hours spent staring at the living room-turned dining room, I decide that the furniture we have just aren't cutting it, and I do need to freshen up the space a little bit since I've been having a really bad spell of undomesticity in the city. Bleck.
Little bit is an understatement. When I got my 13th month pay, we immediately went to Ortigas Home Depot to look at tables since the tables that we've looked at in the mall were either too frumpy (weird 'hip' flower designs and badly veneered wood) or too expensive (40 to 50k, which is approx. USD 1,000-1,200 - are you kidding me?!). The shopping gods smiled upon us that day because Home Depot was having a sale on furniture! We looked at this Malaysian made oval table and we instantly liked it (I actually liked a sleek looking table with metal legs at Our Home, but at 37k, I happily looked away) and the price was pretty reasonable at 17k (a little over USD 400). The surface is veneer though, but very nicely done and it doesn't have that funny sour smell from cheap veneered tables.
When we got home, we were talking about how we were gonna fix the room now that the new table is there. Idle talk is dangerous because next thing we knew, we were scheming and planning on fixing the kitchen, which led to the decision that a gas range is the next must-buy. So off we went to the mall the following weekend to get one. I got this one:
photo from La Germania
A weekend after, we realize that the benches that we originally planned to use with the table look heavy and awkward, so naturally, I obsessed about dining chairs. I searched high and low for them until I found the perfect ones at Dimensione. I'm really liking Danish style pieces and the ones I found in Dimensione were exactly that but it did take me about a week and a half to think about buying it since each costs almost 4k. Gulp. So I started looking for chairs similar to our 2 bent plywood chairs with metal legs which cost less than half of what the Danish chairs cost, but alas, it wasn't meant to be. Them cheaper chairs were not available and the style has been phased out. Arrrgh. Having left with no other choice, I just swallowed hard and paid almost 4k EACH for the fricking Danish chairs. I must say though that those chairs are crazy comfy and look darn good too. I got this, but in Ash:
photo from www.cafechairs-shop.com.au
Of course it's inevitable that we would need to have some kitchen shelves installed, right? We did. Blog entry on that coming soon.
