IKEA explosion

I thought it was time to share our new furnishings.  After three long months, we finally got rid of our ugly rental furniture! It was wonderful to be able to move cross country and not worry about furniture, but it sucked not being able to choose what we would be living with.  We had to stick with the rental furniture for three months and the day the three months were up, Nick and I hit up IKEA for a shopping extravaganza.  My parents were kind enough to allot us a sum of money to use towards our furniture purchases aka Christmas and birthday presents for awhile so we didn't have to skimp on anything.

IKEA is my playground, I could spend hours, scratch that days wandering the model rooms and weaving in and out of the rows of boxed up goodies.  I am so glad it is mere minutes from our place, but even if it wasn't I am sure I would still venture there often.  Here is a little looksee of our new goodies starting with the bedroom:

Somebody likes our new bed better than his. Every picture I took of the bed Larry was somewhere on it.

My cute dresser that I do not share with Nick.

The hardest part was choosing the mattress, we spent a good hour or so trying the different mattress.  It is  hard to select one that both parties truly enjoy, but we finally found one.  Next up is the living room. 

Here is our new TV, that we purchased on Black Friday evening along with Larry's picture with Santa and his pile of toys.

Here is our Craig's list couch, giant Comfy Sack, and Larry.  If you can't tell Larry is basically my shadow.  He follows me everywhere, even to the bathroom.

The couch was our first purchase and it is one of the few pieces that isn't from IKEA.  It is actually a Rooms To Go couch, that someone was selling, that is basically brand new.  The Comfy Sack is the greatest thing ever and our newest purchase!  We just got it in the mail a couple of days ago and all three of us love it and can fit on it at one time.  We decided that since we have such small dinning space that we didn't need a dinning room table.  The Comfy Sack actually takes up most of the space for where a table would go anyway.  Last up is the second bedroom/catch all space.

Here is our futon.  Never thought I would buy one of these again, but it really is super functional and not totally hideous.

Here is our original TV, extra storage, and desk. I am not even sure if the TV is plugged in, since we never watch it anymore.

It is so refreshing it have our own stuff to live with now. This furniture is much more our style and a heck of a lot more comfortable!

I'd like to end with our cute little Christmas tree.  My favorite part is the colored paperclips used to hang up the KU colored ornament!