IKEA Has Some Cool Stuff

I don't know about IKEA... The one I visited in Frisco had a lot of interesting stuff, but it looked mostly like it was cheaply made for college dorms and the like. Very little looked built to last.

The Swedish Meatballs are awesome though.

I do have one of their angle desks. I have a relatively small room to use as workspace so it's great!

And I did put the saved money into better computer, screen space and seating

The pictue I displayed below, is a spacious high quality metal and glass desk with a book case that has 5 shelves in the same style, I got it for about $250, two years ago at either office depot or office max, I am not sure which though.

My -office- area isn't IKEA, but god-knows-what-else-is.

Thank you for shopping Swedish. Ingvar (Mein)Kamp(f)rad and family thanks you.

Next thing you'll know, he'll be eating Swedish...

Funny that. You often hear people say let's go for a Chinese takeaway, or have an English breakfast, or Indian, or eat Italian - you never hear anyone say let's eat Swedish...

Much the same as Canadian really...

I think its because Swedish food is practical food and not to exciting.. being we have a long winter here.

I mostly do italian food myself and some mexican, spanish, american style pancakes/burgers.

Sounds a real Smörgåsbord...

I would say it's because it's mostly the same as the food you get anywhere else in the western countries. There is "some" local food, like herring and tuna we probably eat more than others. And there's the falukorv and the swedish meatballs of course.

Problem with IKEA though is they have few exits - forced to go through the entire store to get to the exit.

I hate large pharmacies that do that too - put pharmaceuticals at the back along the back wall then arrange all displays like food, booze, candy etc on the diagonal to force you to walk through the entire range of crap then lose your bearings.

Thats what every store wants, they want you buy a lot of things that you don't need, these are good examples, basicly we need to ignore our impulses on buy unneeded stuff.

I bought that same setup for my son you have pictured ID, It's holding up well after a year and a half, some minor surface wear on the corner edges, but nothing that a sharpie can't fix!

Which picture are you refrencing to?

We've furnished one room in our house and one apartment with entirely IKEA stuff and have loved all the items except one - a Lillberg wood-frame sofa: the cushions turned out to be terribly uncomfortable to sit in, very 'lumpy.'  We ended up donating that to Goodwill.  Other than that, we've not been disappointed with anything we've purchased there and the prices are generally very good.

I haven't been to the Ikea at Millenia yet but my friends swear by it!  So far they have been happy with their purchases and always find bargains!

Ikea's marketing is brilliant.  Their funiture is satisfactory.  We have a number of pieces and have determined tha tthey all tend to fall apart after ten years.  Rather interesting really.

There's a lot of traditional Swedish food that is pretty good, but they just don't do well "on the market" because in the end, they look extremely bland or sound disguisting (pickled herring, anyone? No? Bah).

One thing I love about IKEA is that mostly you know what you get... Buy their cheap furniture, and you can rest assured that something will be badly fitting or something is missing... By some weird miracle you mostly end up with a functional piece of furniture anyway though...

They do have some really well designed and thought through things, some of it dirt cheap too.

Oh, and voidcore, hadn't realised that you are svensk... Tjena hejsan...

I've never bought anything bad or "badly fitting" from IKEA, it's mostly been relatively top-notch. Of course, after about 10 years to the day, it completely falls apart. But I think that's a design decision.

Of course, IKEA has a incredibly wide variety of stuff. Some stuff (like their slippers, or their trashcans) are just piecemeal crap that you use until they break, and then buy another one. I bought like 10 bed-sheets the other day, for less than 150 SEK (~15 Euro) to use for banners. They're crap, but if all you need is a bit white sheet of cloth, there's none better.

I live next door to the country that created IKEA.......Scandinavia rules!

I have had some funny experiences with things that aren't exactly standard in size or hight. Means you have to buy all extra pieces at IKEA. Smart buisness

I found that Ikea-furniture is "non-moveable". You can buy it and put it in your apartement but when you move out, the best thing to do is to just sell it to the person that is moving into your old apartement.

If you try to move it, it will just fall apart (except the smaller pieces).

Ahh, and don't buy their food. It is really horrible!

(Why does my spell checker refuse to work in this forums?)

I'm currently in the throes of re-designing/building my office ...nothing available anywhere actually 'suits' so I'm digging out some MDF and the odd jigsaw and will be building my own.

The number One criterium is that I have a spot for the computer box with 'rear access'...so adding altering cables isn't a pain in the bum.

That, and placement for plan drawers, Drawing Board, A3 copier, etc ....nothing 'off the shelf' will ever do...;)

Any of you ever spare thought towards earthquake proofing? There is apparantly a massive one building up on the west coast that has yet to cut loose. Its a tossup as to when it will actually happen but the smart people say "probably within our lifetimes".

I have about 50 odd pounds of stuff shelved over my computer desk and if the big one hits it will all rain down on me and my computer.

I found about this recently, there is a 20% chance of it happening by 2050, All I will wory about if I lived on a hill side, ex: West Linn, OR, will the houses actually stay an not slide down the hill, my desk is made out of metal same with computer being steel sided so I am not to woried about that, I used to live in California and they are way past due for the big one by like 20 years.

I love going to IKEA for finding ideas. But frankly, a lot of the stuff isn't that cheap for its quality. Supposedly, they make an extreme amount of profit from people walking through the entire store picking up "small" stuff like icecube-makers for the freezer or a plushie that is also the lid of a boiling can or that floor lamp for $15. Stuff that you absolutely don't need but will buy nevertheless because it's so damn cheap and who cares? Well, those items have like a 500% to 1000% profit margin. In retrospection, although I don't buy IKEA furniture more than I have to, I have on the other hand never walked away empty-handed. They do have a nice variety of office chairs that are expendable.