IKEA: classic or dud?

I like IKEA because I can buy fairly large (ultimately) items and still get them home in my car. And they finally carry good CD cabinets - three shelves, walnut veneer, sliding glass fronts, wall hangable - for $20. They never seemed to get the size right before, like they weren't really made for CDs, or they were those slotted types where if you wanted to insert a new CD while maintaining the order you had to take every other disk out and move it one slot.

In the future, all materials will be like this.

I hate Ikea because I haven't got a car and nor have any of my friends. It's as simple as that.

It's just not NOT worth it, but what choice do I have????

Sorry, there. It just gets very, very tiring living in a location where all the big chain stores are from local or regional chains(hello, H-E-B!) and so many stores I keep on hearing about are nowhere near me. What I wouldn't give to have a large music store somewhere close by, for example. But I digress. Heh.

(but what of Todd Oldham at Target?)

2 different ballgames. Are you looking for craftsmanship, and the price that comes with it, or functionality, pure and simple? At this stage in my life, decent design, affordability, and DIY assembly outstrip brilliant design, excellent materials, craftsmanship and the attendant premium. Someone said they had "better things to do with [their] time" than put furniture together. Alright, I hope those better things include work...so you can pay for my Eames lounge!

That said, I have a collander that is the shit and ez to clean, and one of those 4x5 bookshelves full of books and trophies and such.

Tres chic.

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

Now THAT is brilliant. :-)

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.

...Is it?

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

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

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

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.

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

Maybe you're the same as me.

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

man i really hate going to ikea.

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NEVER AGAIN

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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.

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.

I got rid of the crappy Ikea bookshelves the last time I moved
felt good

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.

more comfortable than the disheveled pile of old winter jackets that you previously slept on?

but I suppose it could be true. I just hated the last ikea bed with slats that I owned

believe me i was as shocked as you that it was any good

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.

Haha, I just saw someone on facebook call the monkey "Jörj".

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. ;_;

CTV now reporting the monkey is a sex addict ;_;

CTV now reporting the monkey's favorite metallica album is St. Anger ;_;

but seriously that is too bad. I hope the monkey finds a good home. I love the little guy.

Poor little monkey. Am sad that I cannot plan to have a pet monkey in the future as I temporarily dreamed.

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.

http://i.imgur.com/w2g6c.jpg

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.

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

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.

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.

Today, around 75% of all IKEA’s product images are CG

http://youtu.be/vDNzTasuYEw