Sunday, January 24, 2010

Seriously Studious Sian!

Sian is starting in High School in less than a weeks time. We decided to get her a good sized desk now so that she can have a designated area to study and store all school related stuff. Start as you mean to continue and all that!

We searched until we found a desk that fitted our dimensions and pocket. It was a flat packed unit from a local office supply chain store. Two men hauled the boxes into our boot outside the shop and we nearly  broke our backs getting them out and into the garage back at our house.

I get a tad excited about flat pack furniture. The mixture of logic, lousy diagrams, missing screws and power tools gets my heart rate racing. As soon as Byron left for work the next day Sian and I got tidying and making space in her bedroom for the desk. By mid morning we had ripped open the boxes in the garage and were running up the stairs with panels A-Q under our arms.

Next came the bags of fittings and the drill. I decided it was time Sian got to grips with how to use power tools and boy did she like it!

Rhiannon and Gareth soon made their way into the room to see what all the fuss was about. They too had a few goes at screwing pieces together using the drill on low speed. They loved every second of it. I was in danger of not getting a chance to use the drill myself, unheard of in our house.



By lunchtime the main desk was assembled. We had a break in the afternoon and then finished off the over desk storage before bedtime. It looks amazing.



Sian summed it up when she said "It's kind of good that they don't deliver the desk to you already made. When you have to screw all the pieces together yourself you get to see the different stages of the desk being built and you want to look after it really well cause you spent a whole day making it"

That's my girl!

7 comments - click here to leave your comment:

  1. Beautiful job...well done! I always enjoy a chance to put things together too and Sian is so right in that you are more prone to take care of something you put a bit of energy and muscle into building.

     
  2. Beautiful job...well done! I always enjoy a chance to put things together too and Sian is so right in that you are more prone to take care of something you put a bit of energy and muscle into building.

     
  3. Oh my... lots of work will be done at this great work station! The proud look of accomplishment on her face is priceless!! Enjoy high school Sian! Freshman year... so fun. Join lots of clubs and be involved in your school. It will look so good on that college application!

     
  4. DIY was never my big brothers strength !!.... Well done Gina and Sian .... looks great !!
    ( just watch daddy doesnt pinch it for his office !! )

    jazzy loves having e-mails from you so thank you !!
    She finds it weird you have not heard of 'JLS' .... Karen and Jazzy are mad for them !! google the band jls..

    Keep up the good work with the blog.... and the photo's of course !!

    Take care Steve and girls xx

     
  5. Lovely job everyone! I do hope it's facing east though Gina so Sian can be at her most productive! :)

     
  6. Wow...what a desk!! She has plenty of cubbies to store all her books and projects. I bet that was a chore...coming from someone that has assembled furniture, it can be an adventure just getting the boxes into the house! :)

     
  7. Awesome...♥iLuv it!!
    What a beautiful smile!