Pad Patter: 2/24 - IKEA

I have one about 20 minutes north and south of me! I love to go there and look at stuff - usually because my sister's looking for something - but I never really get anything there. The last thing I did get was a dust pan and a coffee thermos!

 

I live 30 mins from the Cincinnati one! I love to go there to eat, LOL! I can let my 7 yo play in the playland and my mom and I window shop and have meatballs for lunch, yum!

I got the girls bunk beds there and my coffee table! My coffee table is my favorite find because it's HUGE and it only cost $40, so the girls can color on it and play playdough and be crafty and it's not a big deal. My mom usually gets candles. I have the kids plates and cups and I got an cool cheese grater that stores the cheese!

 

Mine is 1 hour away. Practically my whole house is from ikea: the kitchen (assembled by me and my husband and with a move in between is still in excellent condition), the living room, the bedrooms, the office... and also the basement. And I'm very happy with all things ikea, especially because if there is any problem you can change things immediately (we have changed the mattress with the warranty after 6 months because it had already formed the potholes )

 

Mine is about 30 minutes away and we don't go to often cause we always start in the cafe then and as it's free refills and they have a free play area in there we seem to spend 3 hours in there chilling then have to run round the shop because they won't I close

 

I live 15 minutes from IKEA. I actually never realized HOW MUCH of my stuff is IKEA before I started writing this post: I just had a look around my "computer room". Only the chair is not IKEA. Because I bought it before we had an IKEA. Our bed, bathroom cabinet, book shelves, living room couch and cabinets and carpet and flower pots and desk, bed covers picture frames, ...








What I love about the place is that they are open until 9 in the evening (Shopping center closes at 7, normal shops at 6 over here) and sometimes we just go there to have IKEA hot Dogs.

 

glad its not just us that go for the food

 

When I still lived in The Netherlands half my apartment had IKEA stuff in it. They have one here. in Orlando but have only been once. I do need to go there soon though to get stuff to redecorate our bedroom.

 

We have may Ikea's here in Germany. For me the nearest is 20 min away and I often go there...
My last "big" purchases are a Expedit and the Raskog. Love both!
Do you know that they discontinue Expedit? They exchange it with another one...
http://djworx.com/ikea-expedit-discontinued-now/#.UwyR3IWa8hA

 

All our organisational type furniture is IKEA - PAX wardrobes, I want to fit out the inside of our fitted wardrobe too; BILLY shelves (in pretty much every room!), MALM drawer units (interesting that someone said theirs in rubbish, maybe they've changed them as ours have been going strong for about a decade!

Our nearest is just under an hour away, but I've been known to ask my parents to pop in and pick me small stuff up as they have one nearer . I don't actually like shopping in IKEA, I find it really annoying and it takes so long on a vaguely busy day but I do like their products. We're going to get some stuff delivered next time I think.

 

We lived fairly close to one when we lived in Chicagoland and would go a few times a year. Right now that same IKEA is still the closest one to us (though it's now about 8 hours away instead of < 1 hour). They are opening one in Kansas City this fall but that's still 5 or so hours away..and one in St. Louis next fall which makes me super happy (that's only about 2.5 hours away). I can't wait!

We don't really have much in the way of furniture from IKEA, our coffee table (which we are getting rid of because we just bought recliners and it doesn't work in the space any more), some small tables and DD's bed. Most of what we bought are little things like picture frames, vases, dishes, towels, etc. I really, really want the Raskog cart but I just haven't been able to justify it yet.

 

I am an IKEA addict. :-D We don´t have one here in Luxembourg so we always go to Belgium. It´s my almost monthly saturday trip. I had to make a special rule for myself. I´m only taking money with me, no credit/bank cards. LOL.
I have two of this one for my crafting stuff:


I think almost everything in my house is from IKEA. (not the kitchen, because those don´t make me happy)

 

That's also something that I didn't want. It's one thing to put a Billy shelf up yourself, but a KITCHEN? No way. One of the girls here posted pictures of her IKEA kitchen in a thread here a while back, they put it in by themselves. I really admire that!!

 

I think it's a really good thing I don't have an Ikea any closer. I re-did my whole craft room with these type of tables in all white:





I also used bookshelves and screwed them together to make this:



and I love the expedit shelves:

 

My house is an IKEA showroom. I love it! Sometimes I go there just to let my daughter walk around in a big area on very cold snowy days.

 

When we were poor newly weds, our entire house was filled with IKEA stuff. (We had one very close to us in Hong Kong.) I still love their coffee tables and kitchenware, but the closets and drawers prove to be flimsy and bend after a year of use (or maybe I just stuff too much in them)!!

 

I didn't know Expedit was being discontinued-we have 4 of them and love them! Here's what I found when I googled it. Basically, they're replacing it with a line that has the same internal dimensions but slightly thinner outer walls because they were looking for ways to reduce their wood usage.

Here's my desk (2 Expedit units and an IKEA desk from another line):


And our playroom shelving, right after we painted the room & before we had anything back on the walls:



We also have a few couches, night tables, and a tv stand. We don't go to IKEA often, but when we do it's usually because we want to redo an entire room.

 

Big fan here too.

I live in Japan ordinary and they don't have many over there. When in Tokyo, we had to go to the suburbs but we didn't have a car so we either had to go with a friend or just buy small things.
Now where we are they didn't have one for a long time but after the tsunami they decided to open a tiny IKEA to quickly offer people a cheap solution to refurnish their place. It was so tiny it actually made me sad lol
BUT they planned on opening a big NORMAL one in Fall 1 hour away from our town. I can't wait to see it and start thinking of our future home!! lol

We are now in France and there's a IKEA 5 minutes away but we can't buy furniture cause we won't bring it back to Japan lol TORTURE!!!

 

I grew up with Ikea, 20 min drive from here, and I have a ton of stuff from there. My kitchen is from there, which I love!

Here's a section of my kitchen: