Also why is all the plastic stuff HELLA EXPENSIVE, FOR PIECES OF PLASTIC??
― Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
?
http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/0094453_PE232324_S4.JPG
ikea meltorp. 90 cm high whatever that is in inches.
― jed_, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I think that's about 40" which could work...but I don't think they sell Meltorp products in the US?? Search item not found on the IKEA US website.
― Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay I don't know what kind of idiot I am, but I just found all the Melltorp stuff. Thx!
― Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Also considering standard wire kitchen shelving, but the 36" high uprights are harder to find than the normal industrial 54" ones. Should prob just go to kitchen supply district and buy whatever I find there.
― Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
ah i got the spelling wrong.
― jed_, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
svalbo sideboard? it's lacquered solid pine. http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/0102070_PE246471_S4.JPG
― jed_, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Ive been eyeing off one of those or similar for my kitchen because its a narrow galley and I need more shelving.
― ABBAcab (Trayce), Thursday, 18 March 2010 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
John Lewis have started stocking chairporn.
http://www.johnlewis.com/Home+and+Garden/Furniture/Designer+Furniture+/SubCategory.aspx
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 18 March 2010 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember reading an article some years ago interviewing the Eames designers among others who were mighty pissed off at the copies of classic Eames pieces other stores sell, and where the line's drawn on copyright... or whatever it'd be on furniture. It was an interesting point.
― ABBAcab (Trayce), Thursday, 18 March 2010 11:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, I've got a fake Wassily chair. Em insists I can only have a Panton if it's real though. And one day I'll replace the fake Wassily with a real one. One day.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 18 March 2010 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link
In-laws bought a LeCourbusier chair in some ridiculous 80%-off sale, decided they didn't want it, are giving it to us. More or less like thishttp://www.classicdesign.it/images/camp-chair-le-corbusier~1.jpg except with this slightly weird black horsehair sort of material (maybe actual horsehair?) on the seat. I am sort of psyched about it and sort of weirded out by it at the same time -- it will be by far the nicest piece of furniture I have ever owned, including anything in my parents' house.
― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Monday, 4 July 2011 06:33 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone have experience with tempered glass just freakishly shattering because it's put down on the wrong surface/the wrong way? We bought this thing off craigslist:
http://s6.thisnext.com/media/largest_dimension/6F9C1000.jpg
and as I'm moving it, I have to briefly set on of the glasses down on a tile floor. I set it down what I think is gently and the thing just explodes on me. I was sort of shocked -- the woman was still there and I wound up paying her (I did "break" it, I figured) but she knocked a little off the price. But then I wondered whether there maybe had been some flaw in the glass or if it could have already been damaged.
― relentlessly googling hipster (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
But I mean it is very thin glass and maybe it was just the way I put it down/the surface.
I don't know about types of glass very well, but I think with some kinds, if it has a crack or chip or stress anywhere on the surface, it can weaken the whole thing? What happened to you seems fishy to me, tbh.
Now on to...BOOKSHELVES! I need them. More of them! For not-much money. I'm thinking the IKEA Kilby, which is $25 per unit, then hack it with some kind of fabric covering the back-board.
Also needed: more shelves per unit! Four is not enough! They're adjustable, so I'm thinking have some cheap stock/MDF cut to size, cover with accent fabric so you don't have to refinish them, and use as extra shelving??
Ladies and gentlemen, the boring cheap-as-shit Kilby:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGRz6uWGK3I/SNEJDkc0KPI/AAAAAAAAEPU/5hYR2UGTeO8/s400-R/2008_0410hack0009.JPG
― manager expects you to work past 6PM but won't allow you to change into (Laurel), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Meh, you're probably right. I'm too nice in these situations. I was like "shit, I broke it, guess I have to pay" -- took off a little $ but probably nowhere near the cost of the glass. I was also kind of shocked because a giant piece of glass had just kind of exploded in my hands, and I was bleeding a bit.
― relentlessly googling hipster (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
Anyway turns out you can order replacement glass and even with that cost it's still a less than 1/2 price DWR table. Hard not to kick myself, but these craigslist things are weird -- even if I put up a fight I'd have no way of proving anything.
― relentlessly googling hipster (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.modernflat.com/shop-modern/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/f2280f0201e8bb3748464e4e4ed64bf9619.jpg http://s6.thisnext.com/media/largest_dimension/6F9C1000.jpg
Anyone have any thoughts on these chairs with this table? Chairs are black, table is sort of dark coffee colored.
― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Saturday, 30 July 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
chairs, i think.
http://www.outdoorzgallery.com/bp_arm
― koogs, Monday, 13 February 2012 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.outdoorzgallery.com/storage/bp/bp_lod_v.jpg
― koogs, Monday, 13 February 2012 12:34 (twelve years ago) link
Right, then ... I need to buy a sofa bed. Any recommendations?
― djh, Thursday, 19 September 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
having a guy deliver a dresser from the salvage store. he works there and is obv just getting cash on the side, not delivering through the store. how much do i pay him? i just want him to put it on my front porch so he only goes up a few steps. he is driving it about 5 miles in his personal vehicle. $30? $40?
― flatizza (harbl), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
i think $50 would be too much
i just went ahead and asked him figuring i don't look that stupid and he said $35-40 fyi
― flatizza (harbl), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
If you want to get a little spendy for a piece of furniture, but not like design within reach/roche bobois/caligaris type spendy, what brands are actually worth it? We want to get a really nice modern sectional and would consider spending 2500-3500 for something really good, but I keep reading bad reviews regarding the quality of a lot of stuff in that range (Article, Interior Define etc.)
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 26 October 2020 04:56 (three years ago) link
Is it possible to find a lamp like this in the U.S., and if so, where?
https://www.etsy.com/listing/740930311/floor-lamp-stephan-pine-wood-lamp?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details
https://i.etsystatic.com/21222439/r/il/db23ee/2027897358/il_794xN.2027897358_iipk.jpg
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 30 November 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
that is some straight up etsy shit right there
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 01:47 (three years ago) link
oh ha I failed to look at the URL to see that it actually IS straight up etsy shit right there
so instead of etsy how about any high school shop class ever
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link
i know this is the wrong thing to say but...i could do that
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 02:35 (three years ago) link
but you DIDN'T maaaan
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
yeah I mean come to think of it I probably could too, although I'd need some kind of hole saw or something to do the large holes
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link
man alive didn’t you just move to the suburbs? You’re behind schedule on becoming woodworking dad
― is right unfortunately (silby), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 02:58 (three years ago) link
Good to rearrange your furniture every year or so
― calstars, Saturday, 5 December 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link
Any recommendations for cheap, good-enough quality media/book racks?
― Nhex, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link
I mean the Ikea Kallax is probably one of their all-time great products, along with the Poang chair, and that's cheap. The shelving areas are perfect squares and exactly the right size for records but work fine as book shelves (my kids use them for that).
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 04:03 (three years ago) link
Thanks! Will give it a look and see if I can fit it in my space. I like the price and look for sure.I'm looking for something that probably can hold a larger number of smaller items, think Blu-ray/DVD/CD//Manga/comic books.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
comic books are surpringly tall - i have standard trade paperbacks that don't fit in my bookcase, it's annoying.
― koogs, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
Ikea won't ship - bummer
― Nhex, Sunday, 20 December 2020 06:11 (three years ago) link
Anyone have patio furniture they like and that is durable enough not to need to be dragged in in bad weather?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 20 December 2020 06:12 (three years ago) link
I have just been awarded some discretionary carers personal budget funding for a new settee because my son keeps breaking furniture. He's not breaking it in anger, he's big, autistic and does lots of rocking back and forth and so on. It's really annoying that lots of wooden furniture is so overpriced and poorly built, especially that Ikea shite. I bought a single seater chair from them and it lasted 6 hours. I solved the problem of him breaking countless beds by getting a reinforced steel bed frame, which is actually cheaper than the wooden divan bed bases. It made me realise what a scam the bed manufacturing industry is. Staple together some low quality timber, put a sheet of cardboard on top - then sell that piece of crap for £400.
― calzino, Friday, 28 April 2023 06:32 (one year ago) link
I went through nearly £600 worth of swivel chairs last year, he broke 4 of them! The final solution that he didn't manage to break was a rather scruffy and scuffed looking but solid and dependable 20 year old one I picked up from a charity shop for £16. I swear to god I'd rather just screw some wooden pallets together and put a cushion on top than waste another penny on substandard furniture.
― calzino, Friday, 28 April 2023 06:40 (one year ago) link
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQFyHJW0RVUtpds1jZ7ap1bJzPWdpYwbILr_OYkf31xFw7ekIwg
I'm just waiting for a grant to be paid into my bank to order this sofa. I didn't want one with cushions on the back because they end up getting permanently squashed and misshaped. The customer services woman didn't give me any sales bs or try to steer me towards a more expensive item and said we buy them from a Chinese company that manufactures them and they have a good rep and don't make any substandard crap. It's got a reassuringly high weight limit rating and doesn't look horrible. Briefly I did entertain the idea of getting 2 cheaper sofas from the £600 grant, but remembered the crap sofa I got from Argos that was literally broken the first day it arrived.
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 10:44 (one year ago) link
i've had furniture wear out over the last couple of years and yes, the bed frames were splintery wood with a cardboard top (the cardboard went when they got wet from a leak) and the sofa was chipboard, staples and foam (20+ year old foam deteriorated and where the staples were applied too close to the edge of the chipboard the chipboard has just crumbled).
the new bed, i don't trust the slats on it, fear they'd just snap if you're not distributing the weight evenly (i had one break on assembly, badly laminated). the new sofa is a "two seater" but only if the two are slim and/or friendly.
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 11:33 (one year ago) link
the extremely poor build quality of your average, quite pricey divan bed base in the UK is scandalous.
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 11:38 (one year ago) link
the good thing with reinforced steel bed bases is they are cheap and fold up if you are moving and have storage space under them. And will last a lifetime unless you are an olympic standard 10 times a day sex god, and then it would still take some *doing* to break the steel trellis that supports the mattress! And the divan fabric always ends up looking really shabby and worn out, even just after a year. And they are a pain in the arse to lug up the stairs.
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 11:48 (one year ago) link