I don’t have an Ikea near me at all, but I was able to get some outdoor furniture shipped from their website, just FYI. (It will take a long time to get here with Coronavirus, though.)
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It is! Even I want it and I don’t have room for it 
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That’s good to know! I wonder if they only ship certain items…some of the things I’ve been looking at don’t seem to have a shipping option
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I was about to suggest Ikea too – we have this island from them, which is the most expensive piece of furniture I’ve ever bought and I love it.
I think the all-wooden piece is beautiful, but agree that if you anticipate space spent in small rentals, you may not want to commit. Also, I think the Home Depot option will have more functional storage in it – the hanging rack! – and that’s pretty valuable. Could you commit to ways to making the metal one prettier? Fake flower vines, fairy lights, etc?
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We bought this ikea island when we rented and had a lack of bench space.
It is now my potting bench in the garden.
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Now I want one of these to be my potting bench.
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I’d recommend painting or sealing it. It’s pine and not great outdoors. But then again it’s a potting bench.
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Same.
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What I actually want for a potting bench, as a Tall Person, is a bar table.
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I cannot recommend the right height table enough. Wrong height tables are currently my pet peeve, my house is full of them.
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That’s what I have! It’s fantastic
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I think Ponder is not TOO much taller than you? You could get perfect-height counters when you renovate!!
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We’ve had conversations at home on how to solve counter height. One of the thoughts was to have a dual height island. No idea if that’s workable, but I’m ~16 inches taller than my wife, so meeting in the middle just hurts my back and is still tall for her
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I did notice all of these carts/islands seem kind of…low for working on. I am 5’10" which is not exceptionally tall, but still too tall for most counters, and with a bad back I think I am just used to being uncomfortable while cooking. If I add casters that will raise it a bit, but still 35" seems way low.
@brute you should make an electric sit+stand desk into a kitchen island. I just got a pretty nice one that I felt was decently inexpensive ($300) and I feel like if I had a big kitchen, I’d just stick it right in the middle and use it as a work space. I’d probably take the desk top off, and attach a food safe top of some sort to it.
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At our last rental before this one, we did the IKEA saw horse bases and a desk top to make a taller work bench. It’s great. Now my husband uses it as a standing desk for work. I see the saw horse bases on marketplace a lot here.
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There is a bit of counter in the new kitchen that’s in the shadow of the fridge and is too dark to be useful. My last house had under counter lighting and I loved it, but I can’t wire that in, for this spot. But guess what! Solar powered strip or string lights exist! I could have under counter and in cupboard lights everywhere!
(I would sort of have to because they come in multiple metre lengths and I hate waste and also it would be really cool)
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I want a banjo. I have been banjo-less for almost 6 months now. My luthier said he rushed the rim on my banjo and it warped, but he made a new one and it’s been stable for a couple of months now, and he’ll resume work on it this week. He won’t promise me a completion time because he said that always jinxes it, but I’m really hoping it’s soon because I keep looking at banjos online.
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I really want one or two bookshelves. Not big ones, not tall ones, maybe only 3-4 feet high, but it would be so nice to have more surfaces in my apartment. Books are still in boxes.
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Fancy pints of gelato delivered to my door. So far I have resisted. It’s expensive and seems overly indulgent. Then again, we are stuck at home and if there’s any time to spend money on fancy gelato, it’s now.
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Still want that double fudge ice cream. Still not getting it though/ it’s no good melted.
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