Just thought I'd vent - that's what's great about this site.
We are getting to the end of our build and for us it means furnishing it from scratch. I did alot of planning and research and came up with a reasonable furnishing budget which we ensured was included into our overall build budget so we knew we could afford to furnish it as we wanted to. We have been madly ordering bits for the last 3 weeks mostly without too much drama. DH and I seem to agree mostly - we have also stayed mostly within budget. I did give my DH a bit of leniency over the Theatre Room (definatley his room and coming in at over $10,000 ).
However we were looking at furnishing the study which is also to be my library (I am mad, mad reader - I have books everywhere at the moment). I said from Day 1 when we designed the floor plan that I wanted a whole wall of bookshelves - that this was a dream of mine to be able to hold all my books in 1 place. However when we were looking at a solution at Officeworks I was costing it out with 3 large bookcases when my DH started questioning the need for 3 bookcases claiming 2 was sufficent and using the excuse that we needed to save some money!!
The extra book case cost $299 and the total room furnishings was less than $2500 - things turned a bit blue for a while there I can tell you. Hummph someone got the silent treatment for a couple days. But we have kissed and made up now and yes I will be getting my 3 bookcases.
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