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Now that we have some time and it's not pouring, we're finally getting the shed up. Getting the walls together took several hours, so we're holding the roof for tomorrow or the weekend. Between being off for Veterans Day and the good weather, we've got plenty of building time on our hands.

Meanwhile, we got a set of Danish stacking tables from eBay today, one of which is providing a light source in our tween-bookshelf column, and the others of which are giving the side couch a place to set drinks.

The lamp is from the Atomic Home -- a unique, open-top, vase-style design. We'll be looking for a cloth to drape over the table so we can hide a power strip under there, along with the existing cords.

I think we're done have things delivered and installed now -- we got our bedroom furniture and had somebody come install a new ceiling fan in the living room.

The fan was especially nice to get in there, because the light that it replaced was on the same switch with all the living room outlets. That's right, turning the room's ceiling light fixture off also turned off power to the TV, cable box, etc. Now we've got a pull-chain, thankfully. Also, I made some ostrich burgers and corn on the new grill and they turned out pretty awesomely.

I never had a chance to post about it at the time, but we put a curtain up on our big picture window last week.

Also, we got our new living room set from Ashley yesterday. It's a nice dark, dark brown faux leather with white stitching. We also got a gigantic ottoman/coffee table, with padded compartments that turn over to reveal table space. The plan was to move the vintage set from Atomic Home down to the boom boom room. The loveseat moved fine, but the couch thwarted us at every turn -- no matter how we configured it we needed about two more inches of space to get it around the corner and into the doorway. After a lot of frustration, we decided maybe they'd look OK mix and match, with the new loveseat downstairs and the old sofa upstairs. And it turned out surprisingly well! The styles compliment each other, and two sofas up with two loveseats down is a much better use of the space.

With the furniture and painting done, I've just got to finish building all the IKEA stuff and the living room will be complete. We're still waiting on our bedroom set, but after that we'll be pretty much fully in.

There's a strip of a few blocks in Murphysboro, just down the road from Carbondale, with several resale shops selling everything from complete junk to incredible vintage furniture. Today we got a delivery of the latter from The Atomic Home, which recently relocated from Benton.

For the time being, at least, the couch and loveseat are in the living room (they may go downstairs when our other couch and loveseat arrive, depending on what goes best with the new paint and curtains).

We also got an unbelievable deal on a three-piece dining room set. At first we thought the three pieces were the table, leaves and chairs, and we thought, well, it's a nice table, maybe we should get it. Then we found out that was all one piece, and it came with a beautiful hutch and buffet. And at the prices things were going for, I couldn't afford not to get this excellent cat-tail lamp for the boom boom room.

The table isn't put back together yet, but it's a nice, plain mid-century circle design. But check out these chairs.

The Atomic Home guys were awesome to deal with and their stock is amazing and in constant rotation. If you're in the area (and by that I mean anywhere from St. Louis to Louisville) do yourself a favor and check them out.