Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/16

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Audiophile Question - CD-shelving - logistics
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri Jan 16 11:59:00 2009

Obscure but not from language as there are no words.
I am sitting typing this at a rather large glass topped desk I got from Ikea
Elizabeth and was delivered here in a large truck.
It took me more than a day to put it together it think.
Ten hours maybe. A truly mind over matter experience.
All pictures with no words. Yet somehow it works.
As everything in this entire apartment is from two truckloads from Ikea a
few months apart. Plan A and Plan B.
If you get things individually shipping wise you suffer.
If you can fill a truck you're better off.

When you go so someone's house the first thing they show you is not the
expensive nice thing but the thing they made themselves. From a kit no
doubt.

In my case every single item in this entire apartment is from IKEA.
13 items I'm counting now. A bed being one of them which has 13 thousand
parts all suspended some how.
So I'd be prone to show them everything.

I feel like I just didn't put the stuff together but designed and and
chopped down the cherry tree it came from. Planed the wood.

And tell them my real furniture is in a cubical in Portland Oregon.
Which is true. I have fake antiques from Vermont. Handed down generation
after generation. Made with real wood.
Brown not beige.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@gmx.de>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:03:42 +0100
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Audiophile Question - CD-shelving - logistics
> 
> Mark,
> 
> the essence of Ikea is to transport the stuff home yourself and then
> spend hours puzzling over the obscure instructions about how to put it
> together :-)
> 
> Douglas
> 
> Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> 50 bucks then another 50 bucks to get it to your house.
>> They're in the shipping biz not the furniture biz.
>> 
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   
>>> From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@gmx.de>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:34:33 +0100
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Audiophile Question - CD-shelving
>>> 
>>> We have IKEA shelving systems - IIRR they take almost 200 per element,
>>> and they look good too.
>>> 
>>> http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/87305207
>>> 
>>> 
>>> In situ - combined with IKEA Billy shelving units in our sitting room -
>>> as you can see you can adjust them for books, ornaments, DVDs, videos or
>>> whatever you like.
>>> 
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/149611-1/IKEA_Benno_Billy.jpg
>>> 
>>> Storing a couple of thousand LPs is a bigger problem :-)
>>> 
>>> Best from Hannover
>>> 
>>> Douglas
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