The Quest for Furniture

When we moved here some wonderful friends who used to live in our city, but don't currently, gave us the opportunity to buy some of their furniture at a great price. We are so glad we did that because there are families that moved here at the same time we did and are still without some vital pieces, ie: kitchen table, dressers, desk. I can't imagine how frantic I would have felt to find and buy furniture if we didn't have any. We talked about after a year or so replacing some things, the furniture here can be just as expensive as in the States but not always the same quality. There is a place in the capital city, KM, that will hand make furniture in any style you like and it's for a great price. Everything we looked at here was WAY expensive and not always made with real wooed, so after looking at the stuff from this place we have decided this is our best option. The biggest problem is getting it the 4 hours from there to here is not cheap. Until we had a friend say he was going to get some things made...ah ha, an opportunity to share the cost of a moving van. So now Stan and this friend are planning to take a trip to KM next Friday to order some furniture. This is way ahead of our decided schedule but we already have some money set aside so why not? Here are some items we are thinking of. These are all more for style and not color or size, the pictures are a combination of Ikea, Pottery Barn and Target.

Dinning Area
Try to imagine the table only.

Four chairs and then the bench on one side. Stan likes natural wood so I can handle that for the kitchen/dinning area.

Office
A corner desk and probably a small side desk. The bookcase will be this style but maybe taller and slimmer. We are thinking a medium stain for the office.


Master Bedroom
I really want to do a black stain (like on this bed) for our bedroom.


I like this dresser and bedside table for number of drawers but like the simpler style of the slightly bigger one on the bottom.