New furniture

We are very blessed with our apartment. For the most part the furniture provided is great! They are neutral colors and look very good (especially for China). There was one thing we were lacking though....



The wall with the TV in the living room had no place to put the cable box or DVD player, we just kept them on the floor. We decided we needed something to put the DVD player on and a place to store stuff like DVDs.



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So we went to the furniture market and looked around and even took some measurements. We saw what we wanted at one of the showrooms...then we went home to think about it and all of that. We went back to the market about two weeks later, but the showroom we had looked at was gone! But another lady said she could get the stuff for us, we could just pick it out of the catalog. We showed her what we wanted, and bargained and arranged a delivery in two weeks (in pieced together Chinese).

Then the furniture arrived, and the guys put it together with a power drill in our living room and put them where we wanted. The book cases actually ended up being much bigger than we had thought and we were afraid that they would not work, but I think it ended up working very well. And we still have some empty shelves that we can put stuff if we need to.



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