johnart said:

There's definitely a lot to be said for "thrifting". I just can't search for stuff. If it's there and the price is right! Awesome!

Otherwise, fuck it,I'm going to IKEA.

veronikka said:

as a kid my favourite fantasy was to be locked in at IKEA overnight, and I could sleep in any of the beds and live in whichever room I wanted!

I only recently gave away a black IKEA veneer coffee table I inherited from my parents. It was 40 years old!! and still looked the same - I used to colour in chips with a black marker

i looooove my ikea bookshelves. i've never been able to have all my books in one space before - they were usually scattered in various small/cheap bookshelves throughout wherever i was living. ikea made it affordable for me to just bite the bullet and get a bunch of big bookshelves and place them all next to each other - et voila - i have a library!

The founder and still owner of IKEA is one of the richest men in the world. The furniture is generally good though, most of my stuff is from there. It's a bit more special for us here in Sweden though I guess, some kind of altar we're supposed to worship at.

Teacher said:

It's pretty much all I've got down here when I get homesick I go there and buy knäckebröd

Anxiety said:

ooooh check this out!


combine $1056.95 worth of Ikea EXPEDIT shelves to build this awesome megashelf -- if you're a sucker for the wall o'books.

ZombieKitten said:

ZombieKitten said:

Nice.
But personally, I wouldn't go that far up, I'd feel claustrophobic.
Probably up to the 5th high shelf, maybe even 6 shelves high.



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ZombieKitten said:

Homesick? Isn't that stretching it a bit?

wildgoldenhoney said:

my ceiling is low, I'd hit it by the 6th shelf

Teacher said:

Now that some serious library. How many have you read? I am so going to IKEA which opened a year ago here.

ZombieKitten said:

Looking at the pic again, don't think I could do 6 either.

Anxiety said:

We got two Billy's for the office. All the furniture is in white. The desks (with some shelving) are EXPEDIT as in the pic.
The walls are an intense blue.
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mzsadii said:

I got that pic from a blog all of my books fit onto one of these:

Since books got so ridiculously expensive I only get them from the library now

My friends all love IKEA. I think it's overrated. Don't get me wrong, I've bought some really cute things there, like this:



but overall, I have no interest in spending a whole day there like my friends do.

However, I wish I knew about IKEA when I moved out on my own back when I was 18. They're super cheap when it comes to general household stuff like measuring cups, bowls and such.

ZombieKitten said:

nice

JuliePurplehead said:

OMG, those are our office and dining room chairs...in white.

$19.99

johnart said:

They're my craft room chairs.

ZombieKitten said:

You don't really live here dear. But I doubt if I'd be able to make do without knäckebröd if I moved away.

JuliePurplehead said:

I thought you were getting these?

ZombieKitten said:

Teacher said:

well that's why I get homesick.

it's still my culture, I was raised a swede by 2 well meaning swedes who didn't know any other way. I used to be very afraid visiting my friends houses with food and customs I was unfamiliar with. The things I do and like make more sense when I am in sweden.

ZombieKitten said:

Those would go nicely with my other craft room chairs as long as I can get them in hot pink. Ooh, maybe even white since I have two walls painted hot pink and the other walls painted white.

JuliePurplehead said:

Not all day, but I have to eat a meal there when I go.

The Mac n Cheese

johnart said:

I've heard good things about the food there but my whole thinking is "I want Cheesecake Factory". I don't have one where I live so when I'm traveling to Minneapolis to go to Ikea, I'm also hitting the Cheesecake Factory in Edina. There's a method to my madness.

JuliePurplehead said:

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johnart said:

ZombieKitten said:

Ok. It's weird that way I think, even considering that you spent nearly all your life in Australia you'll find more at home here in some ways. I know people who were born here and raised by immigrant parents trying very hard to raise their children in a Swedish way to give their children the best possible position to make it in Swedish society. Then the children (my friends) go back to wherever their parents came from and they feel like they REALLY came home even though they don't share language and culture at all.