I GOT NEW SHELVES BABYYYYY CHECK EM OUT

[plushmayhem]

I ended up spending pretty much this entire week dealing with building and sorting these shelves. IKEA was criminally low on the types and amount of Kallax's they had in stock, but ending up with a 3x4 ended up being the ideal. The 2x5 I had in my brain doesn't actually exist, the only 5x tall version from what I can tell is my big ol 5x5 and I do not need another one of these bad boys in my life.

My only big disappointment is that it's white as they were out of the black and brown, and I really don't need anymore white furniture to go with my white apartments walls. Sure I could paint it myself but I'm not dealing with that living in an apartment and doubly not this time of year and triply not on my own. What a hassle. I'll suffer the smidgen of psychic damage I'm taking from it daily it's OK.

The long and short of it is, I have way too much fabric. On top of having too much fabric, my initial sorting from when I got my first Kallax wasn't the most efficient. It worked, I adjusted it over time, but eventually as I got more fabric I just ran out of space to be picky and choosey about what goes where and ended up with generic “scrap drawer” “Shannon minky goes here and here” type shit. It just wasn't sustainable and it was causing me to mess up and accidentally reorder fabric colours I already had on hand, which added to the problem!

So enough's enough. It's all sorted. Well, everything that matters to even a small degree is sorted (aka fluffy fabrics). I do have lots of extra cotton prints and misc knits that need a new place to hang out, but they're lower priority and I'll probably just throw them in a box until I end up adding to my bat's print selections.

The top shelves still need to be properly cleaned up and organized, but it's not my priority right now. The bottoms shelves I plan on moving my packing and shipping stuff to, like the boxes down there. My 6x6x6 flat boxes fit perfectly and I generally save any bonus bubble wrap I get so it can all live down there. Easy easy!

I'm annoyed it took all week to do this, as my period was particularly rough this time around so I had to work around that, ughhhhh. But it's done! It's sorted! I can get back to working on commissions this week cause now I gotta get some money saved back up!!

Comments

[pumpkinlumpin]

I'm sorry about them only having the one color and also having to do this around cramps, but yeahhhh storage furniture!!! We're in a similar spot over here about trying to do some spring cleaning and organize stuff that's piled up, so I've also been eyeballing some racks that don't match the apartment augh

[plushmayhem]

At some point we just gotta give in and get the stuff that doesn't match for the sake of ease! You can just replace it with better stuff later (I am never replacing this it's with me until I die now)

[pumpkinlumpin]

i mean, if it's functional there's no point in getting rid of it it's here forever now what else am i gonna do

[xkeeper]

it is the 2020s and there is time for kallax

[plushmayhem]

And to all a good Kallax