Ikea ! Did you know ?

Oldntired said:
@hollydolly I love the green wall in your office. It looks so bright and cheerful. Did you use bright colors throughout your house?
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Thank you, :giggle: No.. just in this one room... and in the livingroom I have one red feature wall which is wallpaper and the rest of the room is pale lemon and white.... but other than that no other rooms have bright colours..
 

katlupe said:
I have never been to one. I don't know if there is one near me or not. I see people shop in them on some of my YouTube channels though.
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The furniture is one thing.. they sell soft furnishing as well.. but about 1/2 of all Ikea shoppers go for the Basement.. which is full of Kitchen utensils, plants, photo frames, cushions, all sorts of things you didn't know you needed till you go there.. :D

Our closes Ikea just a few miles away in North London recently closed down ..Ikea are closing their mega stores now because online shopping has affected sales.. so now they're talking about opening smaller stores on the high street instead of Big Box stores on retail parks
 
EmptyCup said:
Yes, they sell it in rolls. I was refinishing a side table and went right through the veneer in one spot. Should have used 150 instead of 100. Or sanded it by hand. Sometimes I learn a lesson the hard way!
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Oldntired said:
We used veneer to cover the top of an old peddle sewing machine, and plan to use a piece to cover the top of a small table that is damaged. We bought it at A, I think.
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Yeah, I saw it in rolls and sheets that were 2ft sq.

I have this little wooden bookcase that my mom got for free when she bought a World Encyclopedia set from a door-to-door salesman when I was about 4yrs-old. It's only 28" tall, has only 2 shelves and the top has a horizontal slot near the back edge where you put the Atlas/book of maps in there standing up.

I have no idea where the set of books ended up, but the shelf unit is here, and the veneer is coming away on one side. It's a handsome little unit with rounded corners and the two front-top corners are mitered as well. 1940s all the way.

I'm really anxious to make it look even nicer.
 
We finished our basement bathroom/laundry room with Ikea cabinets. They’re good quality with soft close drawers.

Young people don’t want quality furniture that lasts. Change for the sake of change.
 
hollydolly said:
Exactly.. people talk about Ikea furniture as if it's made of Cardboard. It's very good quality for ''pressboard''... My father was a carpenter/joiner.. he used to say we'd all come downstairs one day and find a pile of sawdust on the floor where there once stood an Ikea piece of furniture.. what Tommy Rot...
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You should see what a flood does to it...
Murrmurr said:
remember veneers? I mean old veneer; very thin slices of natural wood that could make pine furniture look like mahogany or oak and whatever. I only recently learned that you can replace veneer yourself, at home. You can just go buy it. And replacing it is fairly simple and doesn't effect the piece's value.
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Yes, and you are right about that. In the same hurricane I mentioned we had a pair of dressers over 100 years old with that veneer. It was oak veneer, underneath was some cheaper wood, but not pressboard. Some of the veneer pealed but was repairable, none of the pressboard stuff was.
 
I am of the type that will buy an old piece of solid wood furniture to refinish it just because of the more intricate patterns on the old stuff. BUT that being said I have often seen on pinterest some interesting ways that some have taken IKEA with the basic design and upped it up a bit with embellishment.
 
I don't know if all Ikea stores are the same. I've only been in one. It was fun following the arrows on the floor, so that you had to walk through the entire store to get to the beginning. It reminded me of a fun house at a carnival.
 
Sadly he died in 2018

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I haven't been to IKEA in a long while. I just checked Google Maps and the closest one to me is 174 miles away so I guess I won't be going there anytime soon 🤷‍♀️
 
Even more so than Costco, they focus on high population density. The only one I've been to was when I visited my sister in Chicago.
 
The ikea stores that I’ve been to are huge, with from 6 to 10 cashiers and at least 10 - 15 people waiting in line It’s a great place to purchase candles for a good price. We’ve purchased some cool kitchen items from there including a drawer silverware holder and while I prefer solid wood, we did renovate our last kitchen by removing an exterior door and adding more cabinets and finishing them with IKEA doors. They were a lovely blue grey with long slim mental handle hardware. It looked good and for a decent price
 
Alligatorob said:
You should see what a flood does to it...

Yes, and you are right about that. In the same hurricane I mentioned we had a pair of dressers over 100 years old with that veneer. It was oak veneer, underneath was some cheaper wood, but not pressboard. Some of the veneer pealed but was repairable, none of the pressboard stuff was.
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I didn't know you could replace veneer yourself until recently, when I saw some at the local hardware store. I only mentioned it because I'm all excited about it.

My uncle was a carpenter, and I saw him replace it when I was a kid but he did it in his shop. I've just always had it in my head that only a pro could replace veneer.

Anyway, yes, water absolutely destroys IKEA furniture and you can't really salvage it. It practically melts. It's as if the resin is Elmer's Glue. I assume IKEA veneer is some type of plastic because that stuff can survive just about anything.
 

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