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Last week we took advantage of the mid-summer sales and now we finally have a TV bench and a rug in the livingroom, both we’ve been waiting to buy since we moved here in February. We found the TV bench at Ikea (where else!), it’s the Linnarp TV bench/coffee table in black. We had been thinking about it earlier but we had also been thinking about either making a TV bench by ourselves or trying to find something at a thrift store. But at only 30€ on sale it was much cheaper than the materials for making one and since we hadn’t had any luck thrifting we decided to get it. It’s solid pine so we can always sand it and paint it again if we get tired of the color.

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I’ve had my eye on the Jorun rug from Ikea for a while now but when we were at Ikea a week ago we realized that it was way too big for our small livingroom. (I guess I could have found that out at home if I had bothered to do some measuring!) It was so disappointing! But then I found this wool rug at Finnish store Isku a couple of days ago and I like it even more than the Jorun one, so it all worked out really well. And it was on sale for only 55€! So there are our summer sale finds. What about you, have you been shopping at the sales?