We have an IKEA sofa, Clergs. It's a three seater EKTORP and we bought a different cover from CoverCouch as I hate the standard covers they come with. Looooove it. I can lie on it, which is the crucial thing.
We have less IKEA furniture now, but only because we got rid of a load that furnished my flat!
The study is IKEA (it's very good for modular furniture so this is a no brainer) and we have the sofa (which was from my flat but is amazing) and our bed, which is a Malm but I want to change it for a velvet one off Loaf.com...
Yeah, same re Kallax with desk attached in the home office.
As it has thinner walls and uses less wood, careful using a hammer to knock the bits together in assembly. Quite easy to punch a hole right through it. Helpfully, you can just turn it upside down to hide the hole.
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Hemnes 8 drawer unit for bedroom. Big pax mirror fronted wardrobes. Random little metal shelves for cheap storage and bedroom TV stand. Can't remember what they're called. The spare room is pretty much kitted out with cheap aneboda (?) furniture which I don't think they make any more and there's a kallax sideboard effort in the hall. Lounge used to be mostly ikea but I upgraded to fancy rustic mango wood shite.
No love yet for Malm? Decorating Hollywood sets since the whole scandi thing became a thing over there. Our bedroom is full of Malm chests of drawers that have held up brilliantly over the past decade or so. Not exactly an asthetic delight but just super practical as they are massive compared to most drawers.
We also stuck a load of the old style Stuva cupboards (light blue with the cut outs for handles that they did until recently) in my daughters room as they are super deep compared to most similar options.
Trofast great for the kids playroom.
Finally I did like the Besta stuff for the TV and storage in the lounge.
Ditto what Anna said. Love a hot dog. Also love the meatballs at IKEA but the ones you buy frozen in the shop are bigger and much saltier than the restaurant version.
Bedroom used to be mostly malm but redecorated bedroom as some of you may recall and they didn't go at all so moved to Hemnes which looks lovely. Also huge deep drawers!
Ikea is fine I guess but am I the only person who can tell when I’ve walked into an ikea house? They all look pretty similar - a sort of late 90s student vibe.
I prefer sourcing stuff from different places to get an interior look I want to achieve rather than just drone-copying what everyone else has.
Otherwise you risk your place looking like you just bought everything matching out of a catalogue.
I have no idea what the pricing structure is like tbf. But whatevs, I’m not fanatical about this but I can always tell when I walk into someone’s house and it’s wall to wall ikea, whereas if someone has shopped around a bit and built up furniture over the years it seems a bit more homely to me.
My place probably doesn’t look as good, stuff ‘goes together well’ rather than ‘matches’ if you see what I mean. Personal taste innit.
Ikea snobbery is the weirdest of all snobberies. It's well priced, practical, well designed by great and often young up and coming designers and by now I assume child labour free.
Just because you have some stuff from Ikea doesn't mean you have wall to wall IKEA. Very few people will do that just like very few people will only have BODEN outfits and nothing from Reiss or LK Bennett. And there may be people who do have that, which is absolutely fine and I cannot see why it would be of any interest to you let alone needing of any sort of opinion from you.
Btw tricky, I wasn’t being snobby about it in terms of price either. I bet some of my stuff is cheaper than ikea, I have those salt lamps from Lidl just for a start!
I have undying love for billy bookcases although I wasn’t allowed to have them in our new place - mr tc thought we should graduate from billies so we have exxy floating danish rah rah bookshelves instead now (boo)
love herring, daim bars and meatballs but I haven’t physically been into an Ikea for years (seriously does anyone not just get delivery + task rabbit these days?)
so much kids stuff - chicklet no 1 has an Ikea bed (full size single with a trundle), the linen is cool too. The kids cutlery and crockery. Circus tent. Tunnel. Wooden toys. Antilop high chair (we have one delivered to every holiday house we ever go to). Potties and toilet seats. Storage things for kids cupboards.
Oooh, I forgot the kids cutlery an crockery. We have the circus tent and the tunnel. I always fell over the antilop chair legs as they are a bit sticky-outy. Potties, seats, steps, yup...have 'em all. And do not forget those apron thingies with the closure at the back. Full sleeve coverage. Awesome for dinner time and later for crafts/painting/generally being gross.
I think not everything comes online, tc, also my brain just can't picture things like this so I need to go into the shop to look at the little fake rooms! although I haven't been in over ten years for furniture (went about 7 years ago because my friend wanted meatballs)
The new one in Greenwich has lots of little rooms which are dressed as start ups or little twee shops to demonstrate it's commercial application. It's really interesting and cute!
I really want meatballs now though. Gonna have to see if I can drag littlesis one night this week...
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I am Anti Skub
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why?
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skub is terrible
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Their meatballs are good. Also the Billy shelving units are excellent.
That's about it.
Plus actually going in there is like purgatory. No escape until you have atoned for whatever wrongs you may have committed.
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the sofas that you can keep for life because so many third parties make every variety of cover under the sun.
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I have never been to Ikea.
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The never-ending daim chocolate sacks!
Also the new Sonos book ends.
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Judo, count yourself lucky. L'enfer, c'est Ikea!
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KALLAX (nee EXPEDIT)
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https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/raskog-trolley-white-20382932/
This.
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I am planning to buy a sofa!
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this is ace, dusty!
Is kallax as good as expedit?
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The place is worse than Habitat for knick knacks and tat. Only slightly better quality.
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We have an IKEA sofa, Clergs. It's a three seater EKTORP and we bought a different cover from CoverCouch as I hate the standard covers they come with. Looooove it. I can lie on it, which is the crucial thing.
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POANG chairs
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I do not like anything from IKEA. I do hold the world record for assembling anything of the Brimnes Range tho.
The meatballs are vile.
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Apparently it is better. It uses less wood (thinner outside walls) and has a more scratch resistant finish.
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Oh ffs, trust Dusty to come up with the exact same thing. Mine is sort of a soft green though. It's in the bathroom.
Red has an IKEA bed with little sheep in the headrest.
I have a big Kallax with desk attached to it in my study.
We have a big Pax for our clothes in the bedroom.
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The meatballs are like little filthy parcels of right wrongness.
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We have less IKEA furniture now, but only because we got rid of a load that furnished my flat!
The study is IKEA (it's very good for modular furniture so this is a no brainer) and we have the sofa (which was from my flat but is amazing) and our bed, which is a Malm but I want to change it for a velvet one off Loaf.com...
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Oh ffs, trust Dusty to come up with the exact same thing
We dream the same dream,
We want the same thing!
Woooooah!
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LOVE skubb drawer organisers,
All my bookcases are Billy
My sofabed is the corner Friheten (which pretty much everybody in my building owns)
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Yeah, same re Kallax with desk attached in the home office.
As it has thinner walls and uses less wood, careful using a hammer to knock the bits together in assembly. Quite easy to punch a hole right through it. Helpfully, you can just turn it upside down to hide the hole.
*cough*
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Ikea actually sell Skub!?!?!?!? !
wtf?
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My study is also nearly 100% Ikea (BEKANT and GALANT)
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Skub is a fictional substance of unclear purpose created by webcomic The Perry Bible Fellowship. The comic features "Pro-Skub" and "Anti-Skub" characters fighting each other over their skub affiliation. It is never explained why skub incites such violence, and thus skub has become synonymous with things that cause unnecessary rage and difference of opinion for mundane very important things; for instance, Warhammer 40,000 and WARMACHINE are often referred to as Skubhammerand Skubmachine.
Politics (and religion (and sports (and history))) are often thought to be skub for grown-up, “respectable” people idiots without an opinion on Skub "respectable" people.
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oh in the shop at the end they used to sell big bags of Skumkantereller (pint and white mushroom sweets)
but I haven't seen them for ages
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and Kalles caviar!
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a mr whippy for 50 cents
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and paper napkins
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bedding, the also have good pillows
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the toddler chair
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I am going to build in half an hour for the food bit
feelnig pumped
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I like their bookcases--relatively cheap but sturdy and serviceable.
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The meatballas are ace but Lingham Berry jam is vile. Beware.
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They have those lovely dark brown knackebrot type crackers. The round ones. And good chocolates.
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Hemnes 8 drawer unit for bedroom. Big pax mirror fronted wardrobes. Random little metal shelves for cheap storage and bedroom TV stand. Can't remember what they're called. The spare room is pretty much kitted out with cheap aneboda (?) furniture which I don't think they make any more and there's a kallax sideboard effort in the hall. Lounge used to be mostly ikea but I upgraded to fancy rustic mango wood shite.
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I love Ikea
i have a stocksund sofa, it's lovely
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Their kitchen ware is their best thing tho
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No love yet for Malm? Decorating Hollywood sets since the whole scandi thing became a thing over there. Our bedroom is full of Malm chests of drawers that have held up brilliantly over the past decade or so. Not exactly an asthetic delight but just super practical as they are massive compared to most drawers.
We also stuck a load of the old style Stuva cupboards (light blue with the cut outs for handles that they did until recently) in my daughters room as they are super deep compared to most similar options.
Trofast great for the kids playroom.
Finally I did like the Besta stuff for the TV and storage in the lounge.
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I did mention we have a Malm bed and drawers behind the headboard (and two sets of other drawers). You're right, they're huuuuge.
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I like the pickled herrings, especially the ones in the creamy mustard marinade. And the ginger thins.
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Oh and the dill sauce for when you're having salmon.
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Their hot dogs are awesome too. Just so long as you don't think too much about the composition of them.
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We eat hot dogs at home. Complete with pickled gherkins and crispy onions.
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Ditto what Anna said. Love a hot dog. Also love the meatballs at IKEA but the ones you buy frozen in the shop are bigger and much saltier than the restaurant version.
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Bedroom used to be mostly malm but redecorated bedroom as some of you may recall and they didn't go at all so moved to Hemnes which looks lovely. Also huge deep drawers!
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our bed, which is a Malm but I want to change it for a velvet one off Loaf.com...
Would caution against. Spunk is MURDER to get out of velvet.
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How....specific
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I'm a bigger fan of Herta frankfurters. Same advice re provenance.
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I want to go to Ikea after work now
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We have a Hemnes chest of drawers in Red's room. It doubled up as a changing table when he was little. The front fell off one of the drawers tho.
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\:)/
I am going to get dry food containers and decant everything and be organised and not have twenty bags of flour!
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Ikea is fine I guess but am I the only person who can tell when I’ve walked into an ikea house? They all look pretty similar - a sort of late 90s student vibe.
I prefer sourcing stuff from different places to get an interior look I want to achieve rather than just drone-copying what everyone else has.
Otherwise you risk your place looking like you just bought everything matching out of a catalogue.
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I don't give the tiniest shit what my house looks like but I need it to not look like the abode of a drug addict
so I am throwing out all my excess and storing the rest in lovely sleek drawers
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"Otherwise you risk your place looking like you just bought everything matching out of a catalogue."
Whats wrong with looking like that?
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Nothing if you’re a footballer.
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or somebody who is not interested in décor but just wants the place to ok.
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I have no idea what the pricing structure is like tbf. But whatevs, I’m not fanatical about this but I can always tell when I walk into someone’s house and it’s wall to wall ikea, whereas if someone has shopped around a bit and built up furniture over the years it seems a bit more homely to me.
My place probably doesn’t look as good, stuff ‘goes together well’ rather than ‘matches’ if you see what I mean. Personal taste innit.
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This thread is very Fight Club
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Ikea snobbery is the weirdest of all snobberies. It's well priced, practical, well designed by great and often young up and coming designers and by now I assume child labour free.
Just because you have some stuff from Ikea doesn't mean you have wall to wall IKEA. Very few people will do that just like very few people will only have BODEN outfits and nothing from Reiss or LK Bennett. And there may be people who do have that, which is absolutely fine and I cannot see why it would be of any interest to you let alone needing of any sort of opinion from you.
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stockshund chaise longue... the comfiest lounging chair ever. I am considering buying a spare and storing it in case they discontinue it.
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You’ll note I did in fact ask a question.
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Heh I’ve just been informed I’m going tonight to pick up a child’s wardrobe.
Might take the chance to look at these sonos bookends which I didn’t know were a thing until this thread.
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don't forget the wireless phone charger lights
and get some of those night lights for the kids. They used to have little ghosts but I think it's mushrooms now.
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Apparently the "LURIGA" LED night light is a raccoon. It looks like a mushroom with ears tho.
The SPOKA lights are cuter and have colours.
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I will take a look.
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Btw tricky, I wasn’t being snobby about it in terms of price either. I bet some of my stuff is cheaper than ikea, I have those salt lamps from Lidl just for a start!
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I have undying love for billy bookcases although I wasn’t allowed to have them in our new place - mr tc thought we should graduate from billies so we have exxy floating danish rah rah bookshelves instead now (boo)
love herring, daim bars and meatballs but I haven’t physically been into an Ikea for years (seriously does anyone not just get delivery + task rabbit these days?)
so much kids stuff - chicklet no 1 has an Ikea bed (full size single with a trundle), the linen is cool too. The kids cutlery and crockery. Circus tent. Tunnel. Wooden toys. Antilop high chair (we have one delivered to every holiday house we ever go to). Potties and toilet seats. Storage things for kids cupboards.
Love ikea!
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Oooh, I forgot the kids cutlery an crockery. We have the circus tent and the tunnel. I always fell over the antilop chair legs as they are a bit sticky-outy. Potties, seats, steps, yup...have 'em all. And do not forget those apron thingies with the closure at the back. Full sleeve coverage. Awesome for dinner time and later for crafts/painting/generally being gross.
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I have those salt lamps from Lidl just for a start!
Do you also have incense burning and tie-dye wall hangings....?
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Oddly enough, no.
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I think not everything comes online, tc, also my brain just can't picture things like this so I need to go into the shop to look at the little fake rooms! although I haven't been in over ten years for furniture (went about 7 years ago because my friend wanted meatballs)
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I love IKEA. I like the concept, I like the interesting design, I like how well it's thought through. I would come with you if I was closer, Clergs! x
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I wish you could come, starrers!! would be fun!
I hope I manage to get some useful stuff
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Mich auch
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I will include you with the power of whatsapp
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The new one in Greenwich has lots of little rooms which are dressed as start ups or little twee shops to demonstrate it's commercial application. It's really interesting and cute!
I really want meatballs now though. Gonna have to see if I can drag littlesis one night this week...
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