i am going to ikea and need back-up...

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i hear middle-class people will fight me. anyone want to keep me company?

― sfxxx, Friday, 9 September 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

no way am i going to this place. it's run by swedish people who are all racists.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Are Swedes racists. I though they were just backdoor eugenicists.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

If you *really* wanted to see the middle classes, you'd go to Heals. Humph. Peon.

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

you'll not get any problem from the middle classes in the edmonton one

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

(My word, he's so common he had to buy his own furniture!)

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

going to ikea is middle-class.

― N_RQ, Friday, 9 September 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I need to get down to the Edmonton one. Have severe bookcase shortage. Is it easy to get to if you haven't got a car?

I'm not sure it is middle class to go to Ikea, I mean the reason I'm going there is because it's cheap as fuck. I think I probably count as middle class though.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 9 September 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Aspiring Lower middle. I mean, have you *seen* the proles that shop there?

I don't buy furniture. I inherit it.

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

They've put a minibus (van type rather than bus type) on from Tottenham hale, so it's not bad. Wouldn't like to get the minibus back carrying loads of stuff though

It definitely isn't just middle class to go to Ikea. When the edmonton one first opened, the week afterwards there were LOADS of security guards around, as they'd had tons of stuff shoplifted.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

apparently if you go on a friday or saturday night there's NO ONE ELSE THERE. i went on a saturday morning and vowed never to return.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Friday nights are definitely the best time to go

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

that's what i thought, i didn't want to get beaten about the haed with a bag of cous cous for looking at the last magazine rack in the wrong way.

― sfxxxx, Friday, 9 September 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Ikea Party!

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

is this some kind of suburban pervo thing?

― sfxxxx, Friday, 9 September 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Cous cous? Don't be daft! It's murderous on little Saskia's wheat intolerance!

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Anyone who thinks going to ikjea is middle class obviously has never been to the one in gateshead.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Anyone who thinks that Ikea is middle class probably has a "Lounge" in their Pardonia semi!

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Friday, 9 September 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Fuck IKEA. I recommend saving up and collecting old furniture slowly over time. Then you'll have things in your home that you won't want to throw into the dumpster in a few years.

― Markovitz, Friday, 9 September 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

And in the meanwhile having no furniture. Marvellous.

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

That's what charity shops are for.

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Sunday, 11 September 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

The trouble with old furniture is that it doesn't fit in london flats so well cos we've got so much more stuff these days e.g. bigger tvs, video players, hifi seperates, big speakers, lots and lots of vinyl and cds, computers, more clothes, thats what's so good about ikea

― Vicky (Vicky), Sunday, 11 September 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

The cafe has food that looks exactly like the menu pictures above the cafeteria. It's unnatural!

― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 11 September 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

That's cause you're actually just eating the pictures.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 September 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

mmmmmmm swedish meatballs.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 11 September 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Fuck IKEA. I recommend saving up and collecting old furniture slowly over time. Then you'll have things in your home that you won't want to throw into the dumpster in a few years.

Don't be silly. We have 18th and 19th century furniture. You can't really use it because the drawers are in a weird shape, you're not able to put too many heavy things in it, god forbid if you put something wet on it because it'll leave marks,... But it looks lovely.

I prefer well-crafted contemporary furniture (mixed with antique furniture - heh!).

― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Sunday, 11 September 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Ikea is good because they produce pretty sturdy furniture that's easy to assemble and just generally does what you want it to do.

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 11 September 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Instead of furniture that for example walks away and goes to live with someone else?

I don't know, it's nice enough, especially if you don't have the necessary cash for anything else - which was the case when we wanted to redo a room - but in the future I'm opting for something better.

― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Sunday, 11 September 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

I've got a gray metal IKEA table in my office that acquires rainbowy oil-slick-like marks anywhere it's exposed to a wet glass.

Understand, though, please, that the real-life, apples-to-apples comparison with IKEA stuff isn't Eames revival or antiques, but Sauder and the stuff they sell at Target (or Target's British equivalents, I imagine). That said, go IKEA!

― M. V. (M.V.), Sunday, 11 September 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

unrelated, but i realised recently... this is the first year i've actually been single for any extended period of time (for liek 12 years, seriously) and what brought this fact hom to me as a couple of months back, when i scooted up to ikea on my own to buy some cheap frames and some bits and bobs i needed. doing the shopping was fine, but i then had to leave my newly-purchased goods unattended outside the store in the waiting zone while i went to retrieve my car. i really needed 'backup' (ie someone to wait with the stuff while i drove to the pick up point) then. indeed, i hummed 'it takes two' glumly to myself as i spun round the car park hoping my goods hadn't been nabbed by an opportunistic teef.

― stevie (stevie), Sunday, 11 September 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

ikea's 'billy' range of cd shelves = classic

my bed is also a beast of sturdy proportions (hefty king size wooden mama). i am thinking of renaming it the fortress of solitude.

― foxy boxer (stevie), Sunday, 11 September 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

I think the billy line used to be available in metallic gray. Great if you couldn't afford real steel shelves.

― M. V. (M.V.), Sunday, 11 September 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Instead of furniture that for example walks away and goes to live with someone else?

Well there are more realistic ways in which furniture can fail to meet ones expectations, but yeah I guess so.

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 11 September 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Wood stuff painted silver or metallic colors always looks like shit. I don't know why anyone bothers with it (making or buying), it's always going to look cheap and cheesy.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 11 September 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

well, i did it. no violence whatsoever. howevr i did get horribly horribly lost and the whole exercise too about three hours longer than it really needed to if i'd been able to go in and pick up the things i knew i wanted (coz i'd looked at them before on the internet and was not going to be hood winked into making unneccesary purchases by clever psychologist-planned store layouts). i did pretty well, only walking out with a £3 glass fruitbowl i hadn't planned on. purchase of the day was the grey metal cabinet that's the perfect size to put turntables and mixer on and holds all my ragga seven-inces like a dream, reduced from £69 to £25! also had a nice chance meeting with two gay dudes who were buying lots of the same furniture as me. i kept bumping into them in the aisles and ended up in the (still massive, even at 9.30 on a friday) queue with them. got chatting, turned out they lived in east london and gave me a lift back with all my stuff - bonus as i don't drive, saved me about £20.

― sfxxxxx, Monday, 12 September 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

i think IKEA might be the main reason why i keep my car (that and the SAVACENTRE in colls wood - shopping heaven - and 45-minute drives to brighton yoo hoo)

― foxy boxer (stevie), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

I only ever go to the Colliers Wood sava centah to look at the medieval ruins. Maybe I should shop there more... nah.

― Smug and Pious (kate), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

my mum and i had a thirty minute discussion of the pros and cons of the refurbishments going on there at the moment. she's a creature of habit and she. is. VEXED.

but i love the savacentre, wandering dazed down the aisles and losing myself in the many different kinds of kitchen towel and pasta sauce and the west indian produce aisle.

― foxy boxer (stevie), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Funiture is good and the range is too thats about it though, customer service is non exsistant and only available if you can fight your way through the crowds. Parking is shit and the people are rude and arogant. I think alot of middle class go there and buy the good furniture and storage things, but its mainly made up of lower class buying all the shit stuff and spend the rest of the time looking around and dreaming! i whent there to buy storage things which are very good if they are in stock though.

― Julia Clare, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

dave, is this the cabinet?

http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/36989_PE128600_S3.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Ikea is good because they produce pretty sturdy furniture that's easy to assemble and just generally does what you want it to do.

This is intended as sarcasm, right? Ikea is utter shit. If you want particle board 'furniture' that you have to put together yourself (if you can and the hole drilled in the board isn't half a centimetre off) and can't hold an entire shelf of books and is ugly as fuck, go walmart or kmart or some other total hell-hole and at least wind up paying the working-class prices the stuff is still not worth. arggghhhh.

― mouse (mouse), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

I haven't braved the Frisco store yet, but looking through their new catalogue, 'particle board shit' only applies to part of their stuff. They seem to have a decent selection of metal/glass and solid maple or veneered plywood furniture. It's a little more expensive than their cheapest stuff, but cheaper than comparable products elsewhere (nb: the only places in town to get contemporary furniture are Crate & Barrel and Design [Not] Within [My] Reach).

A lot of it is terrible, and I think maybe the best stuff they make are the smaller items and housewares (judging by picture and price), but there's good stuff too.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

that is indeed the cabinet, jed. it's pretty nice.

― sfxxxx, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

I've got a gray metal IKEA table in my office that acquires rainbowy oil-slick-like marks anywhere it's exposed to a wet glass.

I know it sometimes does, but I'm less bothered by stains on my Ikea furniture than on our antique furniture. Ikea is not really expensive and far easier to replace.

Instead of furniture that for example walks away and goes to live with someone else?
Well there are more realistic ways in which furniture can fail to meet ones expectations, but yeah I guess so.

Guess I need to make my jokes more obvious. :-(

― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 08:48 (twenty years ago)

We don't have Walmart or Kmart or Target in the UK. Although Walmart now own Asda but that's a supermarket. The only other cheap furniture place I can think of is Argos and that's not much cheaper than Ikea. Ikea is pretty cheap for the particle board shit here.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

good stuff dave, i was going to get that one too. i think i will now i know it's reduced (the ikea website never tells you if things are reduced).

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

Guess I need to make my jokes more obvious

Why not just use more emoticons?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Q: why are ikea shelved like suppositories?

A: because you put them up your self

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

I heart you alan.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

jed it was real easy to assemble, but i think it was ony reduced for a few days. get down there quick!

― sfxxxx, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, that's a top cabinet. I was going to get one myself for exactly that purpose, before I realised it was cheaper and more space efficient to whack a length of birch ply on top of my spyboxes.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

for CD storage i want something like those benno towers that everyone seems to have, but lie them down horizontally. if only the "bottom" didn't have that sort of plinthy bit it would be fine.

in short: i have yet to find decent CD storage that is less than 100s of pounds and doesn't look like garage storage

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

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