IKEA: classic or dud?

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I don't mind it, although some of their stuff looks so disgustingly cheap it's awful! So far the only place we have seen a sofa that we really like is in Ikea, so it's not all bad though. Not, I might add, those awful £100-150 jobs that are just hideous!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 September 2003 11:11 (twenty years ago) link

I like IKEA because they named a cd shelf after my boyfriend's fanzine!

I own: 3 bookshelves, 4 cd shelves, 1 sofa, 1 coffeetable from IKEA.

― Hanna (Hanna), Monday, 22 September 2003 11:20 (twenty years ago) link

I LOVE building Ikea furniture. However the bed I bought from them three / four years ago is now completely fucked and being replaced (aaahh John Lewis - the other man in my life).

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 22 September 2003 11:26 (twenty years ago) link

Building IKEA furniture = k-classic
IKEA shelves and storage thingies = great
Not having a car = k-suxor
The IKEA sofa in my flat = arse on a plate

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 22 September 2003 11:41 (twenty years ago) link

BILLY!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 22 September 2003 11:41 (twenty years ago) link

GIT!!

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 22 September 2003 11:50 (twenty years ago) link

their name maker-upper is not paid enough!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 22 September 2003 11:55 (twenty years ago) link

*sniggers*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 September 2003 12:00 (twenty years ago) link

I like IKEA because they named a cd shelf after my boyfriend's fanzine!

Now THAT is brilliant. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 September 2003 13:53 (twenty years ago) link

Ahhh... Ikea. Your catalogs make me happy.

― Sarah Mclusky (coco), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:49 (twenty years ago) link

i now live at one end of the 316 bus route, IKEA is at the other end. ho ho dear

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:13 (twenty years ago) link

seven months pass...

Come browse the catalogue with me. Feel free to link to examples.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I was thinking about getting this set for our newly enclosed patio enclosure. Shouldn't there be cushions that come with it?

I am fearful of building such a thing, because we "built" the dresser in our room rather hurriedly and now it is splintering and buckling and falling apart.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I really regret all of our mismatched wood tones. Oh well.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Ikea furniture isn't really the kind you have for life, is it?

...Is it?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

How long ya planning on living?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I was thinking about getting this set for our newly enclosed patio enclosure. Shouldn't there be cushions that come with it?

That seems a little bit too spartan for me. And it would probably be a nightmare to put together.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, it is a bit spartan. That is why I was hoping for some cushions, maybe. i am trying to find that precarious balance between style, comfort, and affordability. (thanks, Nicole!)

Ned - I am planning to live forever. Aren't you?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd get something like this, but it's a wee bit too expensive, and I'd have to buy chairs as well.

This thread isn't just about me, btw. Other people, post your interior design dilemmas now!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Strangely enough, I also have been looking for a table and chair set for our patio enclosure. But it seems like everything is either too expensive or kind of ugly.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, there aren't many options. Perhaps we should both enrol in online woodwork classes.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link

That is probably the way to go.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link

my friends got a really nice patio set from ikea that I can't seem to find in the catalogue. I think it was supposed to be expensive but they never got charged for it for some reason.

obv. ikea stuff is really hit and miss and most of it looks better at IKEA than it does in your house. I have a chair from there that I hate more and more with every passing day.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

This reminds me that I think one day I need to get some new director's chairs for the picnic table on the balcony.

Ned - I am planning to live forever. Aren't you?

Maybe you're the same as me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Are director's chairs comfortable?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Depends on whether you're making points on the backend!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Gotta love that LA humour. ;)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Screw the furniture, the housewares, its all about the swedish meatballs.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link

ewwwwww, they are horrible. the ice cream is good and cheap, though.

I read an interview with Jake Gyllenhaal which he inisted take place in the Ikea cafe in Burbank because of his Swedish ancestry.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

The IKEA in L.A. (okay, Carson) doesn't have a super glam, kitchen-of-the-future cafeteria like the ones in Europe. Where the Swedish meatballs live. Why? Tell me why!!!!!!!!!

― Skottie, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Does Burbank have one?

― Skottie, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Apparently, Canada has joined Europe.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it was Burbank.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, but it's not great. (x-post)

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I like the Emeryville one.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I am sitting a block from there now, Spencer.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Isn't that EXCITING?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

It actually is. Go in!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I just might.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

are there hidden escape hatches in IKEA? Their floorplan necessitates that you walk through every inch of the store in order to get to the exit. I'm thinking there are chutes out to the parking lot hidden in those crap armoires.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

hm, so they deliver now. This seems dangerous.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

this is where I go for my hardcore furniture porn: http://dwr.com/

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I know the secret passages, Kyle. I don't go through the showroom at all now!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Isn't THAT exciting?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

building ikea furniture is a cleansing ritual i must go through at least once a year. by the end, you are sweating, cursing, and spitting, crying. feels good.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

If you're cursing, I hope you excuse yourself each time by uttering "Pardon my French!"

― Skottie, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Teeny, I hope the irony of a site called "Design Within Reach" that sells $2,500 chairs is not lost on you.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

like rain on your wedding day.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

The "As-is" section in Ikea can sometimes be thrilling, if a little competitive.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Jerker: Classic.

― Spinktor, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

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