― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 9 October 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 9 October 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 9 October 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 9 October 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)
Mostly I'd like to set it on fire.
― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 9 October 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 9 October 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 9 October 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 9 October 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 9 October 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 9 October 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 9 October 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 9 October 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)
But the designs are good, it's cheap, and the stuff is ok when you're young and mobile. It doesn't last, but I don't really need it to.
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 9 October 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― William Crump (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 9 October 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 9 October 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)
It is cheap crap, true, but it's much nicer cheap crap than the cheaper crappier cheap crap.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 9 October 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)
I've always found their stuff a joy to assemble.
And the coffee there is assjuice.
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 9 October 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Sunday, 10 October 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 10 October 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 10 October 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Sunday, 10 October 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 10 October 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 10 October 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 10 October 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 10 October 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 October 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.ikea.ca/PIAimages/38626_PE130435_S3.jpg
― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 10 October 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 10 October 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 10 October 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 10 October 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― wetmink (wetmink), Sunday, 10 October 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)
More than building it yourself?
I've never had Jeff's non-drilled hole problem, and I've always been very happy with the sturdiness of the furniture, considering that it's pre-fab crap. For pre-fab crap, it's top of the line.
― Smokin' funk by the boxes (kenan), Sunday, 10 October 2004 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 10 October 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 10 October 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 10 October 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)
Worst headache of my recent life was about a month ago after we'd spent an afternoon IKEA-ing. On the way back into the city, with a rental car full of to-be-assembleds, my head hurt so bad I wanted to bash it through the window. And I don't generally get migraines.
But the furniture, post-assembly, holds up pretty well. "IKEA -- the head-splitting pain is worth it!"
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 10 October 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 10 October 2004 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 10 October 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 10 October 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 10 October 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 10 October 2004 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)
Despite the fact the catalogue said it was possible, I tried everything - aside from sex offers since that meant I'd have to visit the place - but alas no they refused. Maybe they sensed I was a sucker who'd spend more when they refused? After reading this thread I fear the worst. We bought a whole bunch of stuff to re-do a room. I am def not looking forward to assembling it. I'm crap at ANYTHING that involves assembling - my husband assures me he's good at it. It's funny: I thought I was through the pain when we finally decided on what to get - step 2456845 in a relationship - but now it seems there's another hurdle... Friday=Hell-day? Probably as we haven't figured out how we will get the old stuff out. hah.
― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 10 October 2004 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 10 October 2004 09:00 (twenty-one years ago)
i made my first trip there about a month ago and it was truly dreadful. we then got the stuff delivered (for £30), which was good as the queues of cars waiting by the front door to pick up was appalling. i think my main problem is it takes two cocking hours just to get round the shop which is about half an hour over my shopping tolerence limit. that and the fact that it's packed and in NEASDEN...
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Sunday, 10 October 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― RickyT (RickyT), Sunday, 10 October 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― steve harvery, Sunday, 10 October 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)
only one IKEA item ever defeated me, a computer desk that held together shoddily, and had a drawer that, despite my planing layer after layer off of it, would never fit in its cradle.
but i love IKEA. ice cream and hot dogs, oh my.
― stevie (stevie), Sunday, 10 October 2004 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 10 October 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)
you need to know the SHORTCUTS! it's possible to go through the store in 15 minutes. (i know this because i once had to go back there THREE TIMES to order that crazy custom parts wardrobe thing - the one that you had to collect off-site at the stupid EXEL warehouse place.. fuck i hate that place)
― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 10 October 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)
Of course, it's easy to be sniffy about Ikea when you live in Ireland, where they are not allowed to build one of their monstro stores within fifty miles of Dublin and therefore have refused to build one at all.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)
I've had my Ikea construction abilities draw crowds (okay, my ex-housemate and his girlfriend). I'm like some kind of Zen Ikea Master, able to simply look at the component parts and fittings, and instantly discern their configuration. (Having put together ridiculous amounts of the stuff in the past helps.)
Also, the names of the products are great. SPRÜD, FÜNKLE, etc. If ILX was an Ikea product, what would it be called?
― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 4 November 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)
― Matt (Matt), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)
― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)
Why do people have ANY trouble putting together IKEA furniture? Have you ever had to put together any REAL furniture in your entire life? This shit is like LEGO! I swear!
― TOMBOT, Friday, 4 November 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Friday, 4 November 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)
― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Friday, 4 November 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)
― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)
― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)
― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)
This thread reminded me, I shall buy it and try it tonight.
― Rumpie, Friday, 4 November 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)
I have to take a run to IKEA this weekend. I don't particularly love putting together the furniture but it isn't hard! At my last apartment I found an IKEA desk almost brand new that the across-the-street neighbors had left out for someone to take, and I had to reassemble it without photos or directions. that was fun. I thought of it more like Tetris than Lego for some reason.. probably because a few trial and errors had several pieces of IKEA pressboard come crashing down on my head.
― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)
― Streatham's Paisley Princess (kate), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)
I think it's in Partick but I may be wrong, and I'm not entirely sure what her concept of 'fabulous furniture' is.
― Rumpie, Friday, 4 November 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)
Seriously, get one electric screwdriver. You won't regret it.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 4 November 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)
― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 November 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)
YES IT CAN
― Dan (ARRRRRGH RUN AWAY) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 November 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 November 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)
― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 November 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)
I use it to put drawer pulls and knobs on cabiets, it's a real improvement on screwing in a hundred knobs upside down.
― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)
― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)
I really enjoyed the Glogg though - Swedish Mulled Wine. Yum yum.
Search: The mint filled chocolates (kinda like minty Rolos), the little wafers called Keks (tee hee)
Destroy: The evil pear cider
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)
― smee (smee), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)
They served it in our high school cafeteria one year. I don't think I've ever fully recovered from that experience.
― Dan (*Shudder*) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)
― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)
― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)
― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)
I've kind of warmed to Ikea - they have a lot of reasonably-priced stuff that seems very considerate of the modern apartment-dweller's needs (i.e., my new entertainment center with adjustable legs for slanted floors). And now that I "get" the assembly, it's pretty easy.
The cd shelves I bought recently, on the other hand, were a bit of a pain. The first ones were the kind you hang on the wall, but they're much heavier than you'd expect and only give you two little screwholes to hang them by and then leave it up to you to decide how to hang the things (what kind of screw/anchor combo, or whatever). That's all well and good, except I rent and I realized I don't want to risk damaging the walls. So I returned them and bought standup ones, which are ok, but they're designed so that it's very difficult to nail on the backing without driving a nail or two through the side of the particle-board.
― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)
the wife wants to drive to ATL just for IKEA. see, here, you buy shit that looks like it came from IKEA for over twice as much. it's just ... not good.m.
― msp (mspa), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)
Alchohol free booze is rather pointless.
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)
Those are the best for LP storage! They also make a good room divider/double-sided bookshelf. Versatile and fairly sturdy. We've got 4 of them and have broken them down/moved/set back up 5 or 6 times. We noticed some of the pegs are starting to loosen up on this last move, but all in all, these have been worthy. Other IKEA stuff has been crap - low plastic chairs, ultra-complicated foldup writing desk thing, wool rug that shed for an eternity. But their shelves are good and some of their kitchen storage stuff.
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)
― maura (maura), Friday, 2 December 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)
― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 2 December 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 December 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)