Have you ever bought furniture from IKEA?

Jace

Jace

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Brought it home..
Had to assemble
hmmm?
why the left-over part?

where does it go?

Sound familiar?
Tell us about it!šŸ˜‰
 

When I lived outside of Philadelphia in the early 2000s I bought a few small kitchen items and a flat pack bookcase with doors.

The biggest issue for me was the weight of the box.

I had to open the carton and move the pieces a few at a time to get them into my apartment.

I didnā€™t have any issues and the quality was about what you would expect for the price.

I think that itā€™s fine for a first apartment or a growing family that doesnā€™t want to spend a fortune while the kids are small.

At that time they also had a wonderful selection of reasonably priced handmade carpets but they were still a bit too spendy for me.
 
Never have. The closest IKEA that I know of is 700 miles away in Chicago. My sister and her husband have taken me there a couple of times, although they don't have any IKEA stuff that I know of. But the store is an interesting place to visit. Maybe not on the order the Museum of Natural History, but still interesting.
 
I did not buy any furniture from Ikea, but when we moved into our new apartment we bought many pieces that had to be assembled.
The life saver was a cordless drill and a set of metric allen drivers. It sure beat using that those little right angle wrenches that come with the pieces.
 
This office room where I aam now is completely kitted out with furniture from Ikea.. the bookshlves, the desk, the drawers....even the icture frames, but not the pictures in them


Never once had an extra bits left over...


I'm sitting on this chair right this second...posting ths..so you can see exactly what I can see

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to the left of the desk where I'm sitting right now is a 6' 6 Ikea Bookselves with glass doors.. you can see it in this earlier picture just when the room was first done

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On the tall glass fronted cupboard I did the patterning on the glass so it looked a little different from a straightforward Ikea piece... It has 7 wide shelves and it's what holds all my trainers and shoes..
 
We bought kitchen cabinets for our laundry room. Great quality.

We did it based on the rave reviews from friends who did their whole large kitchen 20 years ago.

DSSon did his large kitchen by himself too, about two years ago. Lots of flexibility for quality.

Not part of the topic - Iā€™ve never had the Swedish meatballs.
 
Jules said:
We bought kitchen cabinets for our laundry room. Great quality.

We did it based on the rave reviews from friends who did their whole large kitchen 20 years ago.

DSSon did his large kitchen by himself too, about two years ago. Lots of flexibility for quality.

Not part of the topic - Iā€™ve never had the Swedish meatballs.
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I have and now we can buy them in the supermarket as well... and I do... I love them,,,




In the Ikea store the hot dogs are tastier than Costco...


ETA I have 2 kilos of Swedish meatballs in my freezer...
 
hollydolly said:
This office room where I aam now is completely kitted out with furniture from Ikea.. the bookshlves, the desk, the drawers....even the icture frames, but not the pictures in them


Never once had an extra bits left over...


I'm sitting on this chair right this second...posting ths..so you can see exactly what I can see

office-room-1-HD.jpg

to the left of the desk where I'm sitting right now is a 6' 6 Ikea Bookselves with glass doors.. you can see it in this earlier picture just when the room was first done

IMG-7581.avif
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V.nice..like the wall color,too!šŸ˜‰šŸ˜‰
 
IKEA and Destiny, the local mega mall, announced today that they are opening a. 88,000 square foot store before the end of the year.

It seems like a good fit with all of the local colleges and universities as well as our new Micron chip fab.

Iā€™m looking forward to checking it out, I havenā€™t been to an IKEA in at least twenty years.
 
Aunt Bea said:
IKEA and Destiny, the local mega mall, announced today that they are opening a. 88,000 square foot store before the end of the year.

It seems like a good fit with all of the local colleges and universities as well as our new Micron chip fab.

Iā€™m looking forward to checking it out, I havenā€™t been to an IKEA in at least twenty years.
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I've been to a store. Unique shopping experience. You walk through a semi-maze and there are complete rooms set up along the way besides the simple displays of product.
 
Lawrence00 said:
I've been to a store. Unique shopping experience. You walk through a semi-maze and there are complete rooms set up along the way besides the simple displays of product.
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that's exactly it... except it's not so much a Maze... as a walk through one way system.. there are arrows on the floor to literally point you in the right direction...

On the top floor there's the restaurant where they serve the famous swedish meatballs ... on the ground floor they have a Hot dog /coke stand almost identical to the one at Costco.....next to that is the Swedish food hall where all the food and drink that's sold in the restaurant can be bought to take home..

the basement is where most people go because that 's where everything that's not furniture is sold...
 
I haven't, but my son bought a 6 foot X 6 foot bookcase from there to store some of his albums. Yes, I said some. The cubbies have albums in most of them. I remember he had to put it together, but I think it was a fairly easy process. It's sturdy too and has held up for years.
 

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