IKEA: classic or dud?

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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

x-post It DID rain on my wedding day. And my wedding was ALL outside. It was not very ironic.

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

They say it's good luck.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

did birds shit on you too?

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Aye... Jerker is the best. (xpost)

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

...no

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Au contraire (pardon my french) NordicSkilz, it was DRIPPING with irony.

― Skottie, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Two of my close friends danced shirtless and smoked cigars to Daft Punk. Which was funny. Somewhere I have a photoshopped image where I have bronzed their naked chests so that they look like cavorting Greco-Roman statues.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:33 (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.

b-but $135 Eames hang-it-alls!

Ikea makes some stuff that you buy for short-term functionality and discard, but it also makes other stuff that's worth keeping. Am I ready to graduate to DWR? Tempting.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I was seriously entertaining the thought of picking up their cool HYDRAULIC bed (it raises up for lots of storage underneath) when it was on sale for, er, $2K. Half price!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

@d@m, there is a DWR on 4th street now. It's absurd.

Also: where are all the small sofas? I have a 27" doorway into my living room which prevents me from putting any real furniture inside. We've tried two sofas now and they won't fit. I need something that isn't very high that I can turn on it's side when I move it in. And don't say "get a futon". And don't say "move!" If someone can point out some modular furniture that doesn't look uncomfortable and like shit (ie: not West Elm) please do!!!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4252421.stm

No furniture is worth that! I keep thinking about Fight Club...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 February 2005 11:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Um yeah, so

revive!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 February 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago) link

haha that Fight Club comparison is brilliant because the stabbing kind of collapses both halves of FC into each other: it's nietzchean shopping.

― Miles Finch, Thursday, 10 February 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link

i bought a shelf from IKEA about four months ago but i still haven't put it up.

how did people in the Edmonton chaos get heat exhaustion? was it because IKEA's never seem to have air-con?

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Thursday, 10 February 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I went to IKEA for the first time ever at Christmas, with my mother and sister. Kind of weird place, there are signs telling you which direction you're supposed to walk in! Or rather, which direction they'd PREFER you to walk in.

― Oh Dadaismus, Poor Dadaismus, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' (Dad, Thursday, 10 February 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link

White riot
I wanna riot
White riot
A riot of my own

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 10 February 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link

The one I used to go to did at least have plenty of "shortcut to..." signs, for if you knew what you wanted and didn't want to follow the officially mandated meandering path through the shop

(xpost)

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 10 February 2005 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link

i have spent a large amount of this evening getting cranky at an ikea table i am having trouble with. particularly since the bookshelf was such a breeze

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 10 February 2005 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha I was going to post this but haf bin too busy today. Curse you Archel!

Anyway, it turns out the stabbing was incidental and not connected to Scandinavian cheapness at all, but that didn't stop the newsreader on the radio this morning sounding gleefully shocked by it.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 10 February 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

we considered going to this, as it's only 5 minutes away, and they were offering leather sofas for £45 until 3am, but thankfully we saw sense and didn't bother. People were queuing up from 18.00!!!! They got heat exhaustion from being crushed, not so surprising when you consider there were about 5000 people trying to get as close as possible to the doors.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 10 February 2005 12:21 (nineteen years ago) link

> The one I used to go to did at least have plenty of "shortcut to..." signs, for if you knew what you wanted and didn't want to follow the officially mandated meandering path through the shop

the route through ikea always reminded me of the Peano Space Filling Curves that were used on the front of the maths textbook we used in university:

http://www.seanet.com/~garyteachout/fill.html

(ha, search for exact book turns up this: http://www.bookhead.co.uk/books-by/Bez.aspx)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 10 February 2005 12:21 (nineteen years ago) link

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