Happy Friday

Happy Friday!

This is seriously just a typical street in Laurelhurst

It has been a long week and I am very grateful it is finally Friday. I have been having a lot of problems with my back due to my desk so all week I was a little obsessed with figuring out how to resolve it. At home in California, I had two desks and I got rid of one of them for the move. Well, I rarely sat at the one I decided to keep and it is about 3" above normal desk height. After three weeks of working at the wrong height, my back and shoulders were in trouble. I found a chiropractor last week and that is helping a lot. 

I saw this sleek, gorgeous desk for two on IKEA Hackers and fell in love. My husband vetoed the counter height due to my back issues and while sad, I do agree it's not the best for my back. I couldn't get the image out of my mind though, so this week I decided to do an homage to the IKEA hack. (You can see my exact set up on that link but I got the trestle in metal with a white gloss coat). 

We put two of these set-ups side by side for me and the Noodle on Wednesday night. It looks great and is way better for typing but I have now lost the three desk drawers I had left and I'm now down to zero. Storage is a serious problem for me right now. I have 10 boxes in the office closet alone that cannot be unpacked, not to mention all of our books since our only bookcase has been put to use in the kitchen as a pantry. Meanwhile, I prowl Craigslist daily.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, I plan to keep hunting down furniture in my budget and up to my aesthetics. We are also hosting Sunday dinner for the first time, we are alternating weeks with Jeff's cousin & his family and started last week at their house. So I guess this weekend I will also finish painting the dining room. =)