You could get a bunch of Malms.

See what I did there? I adapted Judah Freelander's "Meet the Parents" excellence into a reference to IKEA furniture.

I'm sure you have clever moments too but it would be really nice if you would just recognize that this is a pretty funny thing.

Last week Mark and I went to IKEA because we were in serious need of a couple dressers. We needed one to act as a TV console and one to be my dresser. I guess we really didn't need our TV console to be a dresser, but we did need to to be as cheap as possible, because that's how we roll, and the cheapest thing we found was the TARVA at IKEA.

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It's all about the naughty knotty pine, baby. (It's really not. I don't like knotty pine. It reminds me of a cabin in the woods, which I would say is the exact opposite of my design aesthetic.)

So we also needed a dresser for me to keep my clothes in. Right now, all my foldin' clothes are in our guest room dresser, which can get sort of awkward when we have overnight guests. When we got there, we realized that if we nix the cute dresser I had picked out, we could get two matching dressers instead. Thus:

"Don't you want a cute (but pretty cheap) stylish dresser?"

"You could get a bunch of Malms."

So we got a bunch of Malms, where bunch equals two.

We bought some knobs to church them up a little. We'll see how this ends up.

We bruild and stained/painted the TARVA already. The knobs are on their way, but long story short, we are copying what they did on this nightstand (but making it blend with our blonde wood floors and adding a little shabby chic-ness to it, because you know it's gonna get a little shabby anyway, so let's just own it):

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