I was at IKEA on Monday.

Bought a PAX wardrobe for my eldest. They had been really busy and had sold out on a few of the inside things (stop me if I'm getting too technical) so a re-think was required right there on the shop floor.

In all the hullabaloo, forgot the bloody hinges!

And I live 100 miles away!

Threw it together anyway, thought easy to just slip the hinges on when they arrive (IKEA sending them out, bless.) Two minute job.

Loaded it all up, it's 8 foot tall or something, so it takes a pile of stuff, then realised it will all have to come back out as the insert positions will clash with the hinges when they go in!

I usually get on fine with IKEA too.

mcmeekle said:

here is what you need to do:

ZombieKitten said:

I'll have to get a better/closer pic. There's a daybed on the opposite side (not ikea).

I like that stool! I look at it every time we go there.

EDIT:
BTW that's the plant you brought us! It loves it out there.
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johnart said:

kalanchoes are pretty hardy I think and it looks lovely and sunny in there!

those chairs look similar to the style of chairs my parents had when I was a kid, I think it's an Ikea classic

Too many years in Europe have left me overdosed on IKEA . I stopped buying furniture stuff from there years ago, because everyone's house looks alike here. I still like to buy small things from there, like plates, bath rugs, vases, and bulky accessories in natural materials. They just passed a referendum to put an IKEA in an empty building in my otherwise bohemian neighborhood. While I don't buy alot of stuff there anymore, I'm the lone retard in Ottensen that's actually happy that they're coming

a store in Tasmania

I want the 4 x 4 Expedit shelving unit for our newly remodeled (or newly cleaned, I should say!) home office. I am a scrapbooker (haters to the left) and the Expedit has cubbies that are 13" x 13" - perfect for storing all my 12" x 12" paper!

This is not a picture of my room (I could never be this neat and organized!!), but this is a pic of an Expedit shelf in a ridiculously lovely craft room:


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johnart said:

This is your sun room? It's beautiful!!! Wow, what a great room with a great view!

abierman said:

its more than a place to get swedish food, aksel...

I want an entire wall of BESTÅ cabinets, with the white, shiny doors, so the doors will reflect a lot of light.



I got a lot of wall; I can handle four on top of each other and seven from left to right. I want them like this;



The white squares will be the shiny white doors, the red squares will actually be see through doors so I can put a vase there, or other art.

The four white/grey doors to the right will also be see through doors, but with a poster behind it. The idea is to cut ONE poster up in four pieces, so the four doors become one pic. And because it's square, I thought about blow-up pics of LP's.

jillybean said:

Thanks. It's pretty simple but gets used a lot. Also when we have a full house some folk sleep out there. If only I could find an easy way to keep the windows consistently clean and streak free.

jillybean said:

I love your office.

We use Expedit in ours too. (not as organized as yours in this pic )
My desk on the right/ separated by the cubbies with another desk on left (Ron's).
Ron moved his computer to the desk in the den so now right side will be my personal, left side will be for the business.





I swear it looks nice when I clean it up.

jillybean said:

My old roommate has that one and almost gave it to me when she moved but I don't really have stuff to put on it so she just kept it.

jillybean said:

I want that too!!!

i want to know how to pronounce their item names

but i'd love to have that mirror Miguel got for his room as i'm obsessed with wanting to see how my trousers cut work with my shoes from all angles

Some Swedish meatballs please.

sextonseven said:

...with extra lingonberry sauce!

PurpleJedi said:

I love their chikkunz fingorrs.

And their mac n cheese. Yesssss.

johnart said:

That's not my office. I found the picture online. I would LOVE to have an office like that, however!!!

johnart said:

Never had'em. Always go for the meatballs.

There's an Ikea 5 mins from the office so occasionally I go there for lunch...maybe next time I'll try the chicken fingers!

jillybean said:

Of course I would have known that had I read the sentence that clearly states:

THIS IS NOT A PICTURE OF MY ROOM
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My money back.
I'm sorry to rain on your guys parade, but I like style with quality.

kewlschool said:

I was expecting an anti-IKEA post a lot sooner.

sextonseven said:

Not anti-ikea-just not my cup of tea!

I fucking hate IKEA, despise it with a passion.
Made a solemn promise to myself to never set foot in that store again.

Those manuals to assemble whatever piece of crap you bought never make sense, they either give you the wrong screws, bolts etc, or the ones from another piece of furniture which doesn't even come close to what you've just bought.

Once assembled, never ever take it apart again because it will all go tits up. It secretly changes shape once you do that and if you try to re-assemble it again, it doesn't fit anymore.

What I hate the most; the fact that you have to follow that entire route throughout the store to get to the tills. You can't take a shortcut.

And then there's the Swedish meat balls..

MacDaddy said:

wow!

my whole house is FULL of IKEA furniture
not once has any of this happened to me



you must be unlucky



and NOW, Mushanga will show us HER expedit bookcase
with her balancing on top of it

There are some hot people that walk around IKEA...

ufoclub said:

brownnoser!
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MacDaddy said:

You don't have to follow the entire route. You can cut across departments. At least in US stores you can.