We braved a trip to Ikea today, hoping to get all the necessary accoutrements to complete the plan colloquially known as Project Shelf, more formally known as Pete Uses Most of the Available Walls in His House For Shelves with The Intention of Filling Them with Gaming Paraphernalia and Miscellany, Mostly Games. It's our wedding anniversary on Sunday, so we've spent some of the money from our respective parents on this project as well as my wife's hallway renovations, which are now pretty much complete.
I normally hate going to Ikea, but I have to say, going at 8pm in the middle of a virus pandemic is quite pleasant, because there's hardly anyone there. Result. Doing my bit for the British (and the Swedish) economy.
We were, I'd say, about 80% successful, largely because Ikea's website has been a broken piece of shit for the last few months and thus we weren't able to properly check stock of the things we wanted. We managed to get most of the things we'll need, with the crucial exception of the brackets to hold the shelves in place; we were, however, able to order those, but they won't arrive for another couple of weeks.
Still, I'm looking forward to the finished result; I really, really like my "library" of games that I currently have, and having a little more space both to expand and to spread out some of the things that are currently a bit crammed in will be very nice indeed. In particular, I'm looking forward to having some dedicated space to display the Evercade and its games, as well as some of the limited editions I've had to squeeze in a bit more tightly than I would perhaps like to.
Expect some photographs of the finished project when it's all done and dusted… likely in a couple of weeks' time, but perhaps sooner depending on if and when Ikea are able to deliver those brackets!
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