It's Off to IKEA We Go!

We all have them. Those dreams where you feel like you're falling. You're going nuts in your sleep because you've just toppled off a 100 story building and you know you're falling to your death.

Or how about the ones where you're stuck in some big hole. In between rocks in a big canyon. Maybe someone is even holding you hostage and you can't move. You're so scared. You're trying to kick and scream and wriggle your way free but you can't. It's impossible.

Maybe you wake up and you've somehow happened to fall out of bed. Or there's the possibility that you have managed to cocoon yourself so tightly into your covers that you can't move. If you're from North America there will never be a time in your life when you wake up and you've fallen through the middle of your bed. In Europe ... it happens.

It's because some genius thought it was a good idea to push two single beds together to form one twin bed for you and your husband to sleep in. This same nerd wrapped the two mattresses in one dirty, old sheet, and put it on top of a twin sized bed frame. Over the course of one single evening, you and your man friend manage to wriggle your mattresses about two inches away from each other ... never to meet again.

This is where the falling through the middle of the bed comes in. Or getting your foot caught in that little crevice and thinking some big, bad boogie man is chasing you and has just dove to catch your ankle and won't ever let you go.

Pretty solid representation.

So today we head to IKEA! I have grandiose dreams of one queen sized mattress, a nice bed frame, head board and wonderful, warm sheets. In reality I'm looking for an egg crate mattress top. Just to fix that tiny little crevice problem. A cute arrangement of some sort for the space above our stairs - I'm tired of looking at dust. Maybe an ottoman so Matty can put his feet up, and a rug for in front of our couch because these tile floors are ridiculously cold (I can't imagine what it's going to feel like when the weather is in the negatives).

My issue with the rug? Well, when you're couch looks like this, what should your rug look like?

I'm thinking I go big with the rug. Make the rug my statement piece.

Good choice, bad choice?

Okay, I'm kidding. I'm thinking along the lines of something soft, plush, and simple. How about the ABORG?

Yes. I think this will do.