One Decision: Done!

Believe it or not, we have made a decision on one thing. After two years, we've decided on a bedroom furniture set! I can hardly believe it! Our children will probably fall off their chairs. They are very familiar with how long it takes us to make a decision. You should watch us at a Burger King counter. It used to drive the kids nuts.

The problem we had was in buying an Eastern King mattress. Hawaii has mostly California Kings. However, because Art goes to bed a lot earlier than me, I thought we should get the wider Eastern mattress that would have enough room so that I wouldn't disturb him.

There are very few Eastern King bedroom sets and even fewer that we like. Then I had an idea. Why not see if we can buy a bed frame at Slumber World and then try going next door to Home World and see if we can find a bedroom set to match?

Incredibly, we have come pretty close, I think. Irene, our sales associate at Home World took a drawer from the cherry wood set and we walked over together to Slumber World and checked on the color match with their Eastern King platform frame. It was Slumber World's Karene who suggested we do this. Woo hoo! It worked. Well, it worked with the floor model. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the furniture delivered will also match as nicely. (And yes, the bedroom set was on sale. Were you wondering?)

We'll be getting the night stands next week, but the rest of the furniture won't get here until November-January. That's the price we pay for living in Hawaii.

It's taken us two years to make this decision and I sure am glad it's over!

Now... for the other stuff. Sigh. I wonder how long it will take us to get this move to Hawaii completed.

Still Looking for a Bedroom Set

Our daughter, Tiffany was kind enough to go out to the Home Decorators show room in Chicago today to look at the Mino bedroom set we'd ordered on-line. We were willing... in our aggravation of not finding something we like in Hawaii... to pay the horrendous 75% shipping fee.

Unfortunately, the Home Decorators people said we had to order the set before we could find out if the vendor could ship to Hawaii. They said not to worry if we didn't like it because they would give us the option to accept or decline once they figured out the final cost and whether it could even be sent.

We ordered. Once we found out it could be sent to Hawaii we sent Tiffany out to look at it.

Then they told us that it may already have been sent.

What?

We called and e-mailed and they said that once they know the cancellation of the order has gone through, they would refund our money. Uhhhhhh?


Tif took several photos and at first we thought it looked pretty but then she focused on the details that showed rather poor workmanship that you couldn't see from the set pictured on-line.

The on-line set boasted English dovetailing. As you can see by this photo Tif sent, there's no dovetailing at all.

The drawers could only open seven and a half inches!


There were also no track glides so Tif said the drawers could not open and shut smoothly.

So there you have it.... back to furniture shopping.

And let's hope we get our money back without any trouble.


P.S. I just got an e-mail message reassuring me that Home Decorators.com has cancelled the order and would be crediting our account. Phew! That's a relief!