IKEA and stuffs

Once again we've been to IKEA. Once again, we got back home with a ton of stuff. Picked up a lot of smaller things we needed, lights, bowls, etc. Also, we went by jysk and finally found a half-decent tv-bench. We didn't really love it, but agreed that with some white paint, we could actually stand it for a year or two. It's taken almost a year of bickering to finally find a tv bench that we both can agree to buy. Hilarious :).

To sum it all up as simple as possible, we have no really good space to put a tv at, either its a bad angle towards the sofa, or it's in the middle of the floor, or we have a too small space for most tv benches. Also, I have a htpc + a huge amplifier, both are ... not quite sure, but both chassis looks to be based on 4U rack-mountable machines (H16xW43xD43cm approx), and both need to fit in the tv-bench. Annoyingly, almost 90% of all tv-benches havent been planned to fit that size HTPC/amplifiers. It's a standardized size, sure it's the absolute largest standard size you will see on this type of hardware, but it's still standard.

Let's take an example, the chassis of both machines are 16cm high. Out of maybe 10 benches we found that have "high" shelfs for dvd's etc, only 1 or possibly 2 could fit a 16cm machine. The rest where around 15,5cm, or sometimes simply not deep enough, etc. Why the hell is there a common form factor, and the designers of furniture can't deign themselfs to look it up and design the furniture to hold the common hardware?

Anyways, we did find a few benches that could've worked... except... they where so freakishly ugly it's not even funny. Take EINA avlastningsbord for example. Looks decent on the pictures there, but in reality the material/finish looks like cardboard box that's been standing out in the rain and then dried up. Lerberg was actually a candidate, just because it was so cheap, and we only need to use it as long as we live in this apartment. Check out the max load of it though, 10kg?? We couldn't even have put the tv on it, and we only have a 20" LCD tv. Not to talk about the 25kg htpc or 16kg amplifier. Flärke was another really cheap option, except... it simply doesnt fit with our furniture, and it doesnt look very good, AND machines doesnt fit in the bench.

Either way, we found a bench finally - at jysk. They didnt have it in store yesterday, so hopefully I'll be able to pick it up today at another store. Can't find any pictures of it, so just saying it looks half decent at least :).