The Ottawa Rabbit Hole

For a few months now I have wanted to buy a bookcase to accentuate my living room. My main requirment is that I want it to be relatively tall to hold a maximum number of books, but I also don't want something that looks terrible. This is where my first conflict comes in. The cheapest/tallest bookcase around is the IKEA Billy, which everybody I know seems to own. This one fits the height requirement perfectly, the price is more or less right, however it is also godawfully plain and ugly. Next up, I found a Sauder bookcase available at Canadian Tire which isn't quite as tall as the Billy (only 5 shelves instead of 6), but the price of $50 was right. I went to check it out last night and it too is a lot uglier than I initially thought it might be. The third potential bookcase is at Costco, it meets the height requirement, looks nicer than all the others but this also comes with a $130 price tag. The additional problem with this one is that I don't currently have a Costco membership and would have to mooch off a friend to buy it and it's a lot bigger package than the other two and might be difficult to get home. So my big debate now is do I go for cheap, too short and not too ugly (Sauder); decent price, good height and ugly (Billy); or most expensive, good height and good looking (Costco). The obvious choice seems Costco, but then that seems like a long term investment. I am just decorating my little one bedrom rented condo so maybe the $50 Sauder would do the trick for now and then I can drop money on a nice bookcase whenever I get my own place in the future. Who knows, maybe I won't even have room for a bookcase in that joint. I can't make up my mind, so I will, like most problems in my life, do nothing and let future Wes worry about it.

Posted by WRMB :: 4:06 PM :: 4 comments