Furniture

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.

Okay I don't know what kind of idiot I am, but I just found all the Melltorp stuff. Thx!

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.

ah i got the spelling wrong.

svalbo sideboard? it's lacquered solid pine.
http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/0102070_PE246471_S4.JPG

Ive been eyeing off one of those or similar for my kitchen because its a narrow galley and I need more shelving.

John Lewis have started stocking chairporn.

http://www.johnlewis.com/Home+and+Garden/Furniture/Designer+Furniture+/SubCategory.aspx

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.

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.

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 this
http://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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

chairs, i think.

http://www.outdoorzgallery.com/bp_arm

http://www.outdoorzgallery.com/storage/bp/bp_lod_v.jpg

Right, then ... I need to buy a sofa bed. Any recommendations?

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?

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

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.)

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

that is some straight up etsy shit right there

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

i know this is the wrong thing to say but...i could do that

but you DIDN'T maaaan

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

man alive didn’t you just move to the suburbs? You’re behind schedule on becoming woodworking dad

Good to rearrange your furniture every year or so

Any recommendations for cheap, good-enough quality media/book racks?

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).

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.

comic books are surpringly tall - i have standard trade paperbacks that don't fit in my bookcase, it's annoying.

Ikea won't ship - bummer

Anyone have patio furniture they like and that is durable enough not to need to be dragged in in bad weather?

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.

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.

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.

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.

the extremely poor build quality of your average, quite pricey divan bed base in the UK is scandalous.

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.