But srsly damn bro, those are some A+ pro-tips!!
― Parker Posey as herself dancing to house music in NYC in 1995 (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
LOLling out loud at me being considered "pro"! I occasionally moonlight as a kitchen and bath renovator. I don't really daylight at anything....
I'll post some more pix later that are hiding somewhere on my old computer's hard drive. I have one where I repositioned the existing 40-year-old wood cabinets, added three new glass-and-aluminum Ikea cabinets between them ($295 for all three), and somehow it came out looking like all the cabinets were new.
― Everything else is secondary (Lee626), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
My latest Ikea purchases.... make of these what you will....http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/24037_PE108848_S3.jpghttp://www.ikea.com/us/en/images/products/idgran-cushion__0135632_PE292376_S4.JPG http://www.ikea.com/us/en/images/products/idgran-cushion__0135632_PE292376_S4.JPGhttp://www.ikea.com/us/en/images/products/tindra-scented-tealight__0085474_PE213265_S4.JPG(cinnamon & apple scented)
― Everything else is secondary (Lee626), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
congratulations on your impending booty-getting
― dense macabre (DJP), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
man i really hate going to ikea.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
NEVER AGAIN
Thought this thread got bumped because of the monkey (wearing a little coat!) found in a Toronto IKEA today. http://torontoist.com/2012/12/ikea-monkey-ikea-monkey/
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
O_O ikea redeemed.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
seriously though, i don't understand the love for that place. it's fucking insane in there. the cafeteria is not good either. always makes me gassy.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
just full of screaming people and it's a goddamn maze i tell you
how do you not take a video of this monkey?
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
and yeah the cafeteria is awful. it can be a savior if you're hung over, though.
I <3 the IKEA monkey.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
what a stylish fellow
― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 10 December 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
I don't hate IKEA, I like the caf and the walk-through part! I just hate getting your pieces together and standing in line at the end, and then having to get them HOME. It's all a lead-up to the horrible part, which is carrying way too much home on multiple subways and/or buses.
― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Monday, 10 December 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
PS the next thing I want from there is a dining table so I guess I should start being nice to someone with a car.
btw i broke at least one wine glass on the way home because it was stupidly packed in the bottom of a huge back.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Monday, 10 December 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
also i have about a million christmas sausages
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Monday, 10 December 2012 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://distilleryimage9.instagram.com/58ccedb6423811e2979622000a1fb04f_6.jpg
i thought i was a basically heartless person but goddamn if this isnt the saddest photo ever taken :(
― r|t|c, Monday, 10 December 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
ikea is just about the lease stressful furniture buying experience out there. unless you're loaded then buying forniture is all pretty stressful and at least in ikea you can have fun if you just decide to go with it.
― jed_, Monday, 10 December 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
fun in ikea looks like a photogenic couple spinning their goods trolley around & hugging in front of the wine glasses, a montage set to sugar pie honey bunch, like there's always this homemaking scene going on somewhere around you while you're glibly deciding whether you need a weirdly dimensioned bowl that you don't need but which is basically too cheap to not buy
― what is google (schlump), Monday, 10 December 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
I don't hate ikea at all but yeah it sucks if you go there w/o a car because it's like idk going to a p good restaurant and being allowed to taste and chew the food presented to you but there is a maitre'd who physically prevents you from swallowing it and makes you spit it out into a bin
― 乒乓, Monday, 10 December 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
and you never ever feel like paying for car service or delivery service because then it doesn't feel cheap anymore and what's the point of going if it's not cheap!
― 乒乓, Monday, 10 December 2012 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
it's just not worth it
― iatee, Monday, 10 December 2012 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:02 (Yesterday) Permalink
Me too man. And I think it actually has been at least a year and a half since I've gone, because of this hatred. Although we've had our eye on a bed from there for a while, and I guess eventually when we have the extra money we'll go get it.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 December 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
ikea is awesome for some things (beds and mattresses, lamps, things with shelves) and really awful for other things (housewares, anything that you sit on).
i don't plan to go there again unless i need another thing with shelves, and we already have too many of those.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 10 December 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
I got rid of the crappy Ikea bookshelves the last time I movedfelt good
― buzza, Monday, 10 December 2012 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
i do maintain that my ikea bed consisting of a $100 foam mattress and $70 frame and $20 slats is the most comfortable bed i've ever had.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 10 December 2012 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
more comfortable than the disheveled pile of old winter jackets that you previously slept on?
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 December 2012 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
but I suppose it could be true. I just hated the last ikea bed with slats that I owned
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 December 2012 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
believe me i was as shocked as you that it was any good
― call all destroyer, Monday, 10 December 2012 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
That's good to hear. My spring mattress is a pile of crap and I'd wondered if the IKEA foam mattress was any good.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 December 2012 02:20 (eleven years ago) link
Haha, I just saw someone on facebook call the monkey "Jörj".
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 December 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
Oh no, now CTV is saying the monkey won't be returned to his people because of his prohibited pet status. He's still in Animal Control custody. ;_;
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 December 2012 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
CTV now reporting the monkey is a sex addict ;_;
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 December 2012 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
CTV now reporting the monkey's favorite metallica album is St. Anger ;_;
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 December 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
but seriously that is too bad. I hope the monkey finds a good home. I love the little guy.
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 December 2012 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
Poor little monkey. Am sad that I cannot plan to have a pet monkey in the future as I temporarily dreamed.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 10 December 2012 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
ikea is classic. ikea platform beds with slats are even more classic (xpost). i think it's more comfortable than a traditional box spring, but more importantly it looks kewl and sophisticated in my opinion.
― Pat Finn, Monday, 10 December 2012 04:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/w2g6c.jpg
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
i have been to ikea twice in the past two weeks. i have assembled five bookshelves, a couch, an ottoman, two metal shelving units, a tv stand, a nightstand, and a dresser. i hate ikea.
― adam, Friday, 29 August 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
I feel your pain, I am old so I dread 'hex wrench finger' and sore back. My mind was utterly blown when I found out their catalog is all CG and not photos
― Brakhage, Friday, 29 August 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
that makes perfect sense as i suspect all their in-store employees are holograms as they are utterly unwilling to lift a finger to assist you.
― adam, Saturday, 30 August 2014 00:17 (nine years ago) link
I feel your pain, I am old so I dread 'hex wrench finger' and sore back.
Use a hex bit in any cheap power screwdriver or cordless drill. Not sure what Ikea was thinking expecting normal people to assemble 4x4 Expedit shelf cubes with a tiny hex wrench that needs to be turned about 400 times.
― and in his absence, she (Lee626), Saturday, 30 August 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
Today, around 75% of all IKEA’s product images are CG
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
http://youtu.be/vDNzTasuYEw
― Brad C., Wednesday, 3 September 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link