IKEA furniture

[weltweit]

..It's miles more civilised than it used to be.

Glad to hear it

 

[weltweit]

I know someone who deals in furniture, at the moment traditional wooden furniture pieces (chairs, tables, chests of drawers, book cases etc) are to be had at crazy low prices.

So we see the odd situation of a nice wax polished dining table, extendable to seat perhaps 10, selling at auction for £25.00 because no one except my buddy is bidding on it.

 

[Silas Loom]

I think their expansion has helped with queues too. ikea store nearer to you means less likely to buy a huge amount in one go?

They have contracted in North London: the Tottenham one has closed and everyone has to go to Wembley.

 

[Elpenor]

They have contracted in North London: the Tottenham one has closed and everyone has to go to Wembley.

There is a world beyond London you know

Certainly in the 20 or years or so since I first visited an Ikea there are more regional stores. It’s very handy having one near where I work.

 

[Elpenor]

Isn’t the Tottenham one now a rave venue?

 

[Silas Loom]

Isn’t the Tottenham one now a rave venue?

It will be housing eventually. There’s a massive development coming. Nice for the ravers to fuel themselves on 60p hot dogs meanwhile, though.

There is a world beyond London you know

Yes, but it’s only used for agriculture and tourism. Can’t see Swedish furniture catching on there.

 

[existentialist]

There is a world beyond London you know

Certainly in the 20 or years or so since I first visited an Ikea there are more regional stores. It’s very handy having one near where I work.

My nearest one is 80 miles away. Which tends to fuel slightly binge-like shopping when I do get there.

When I was getting the wardrobes for this place (Pax, sliding doors), I specced it all up on their online tool, got it how I wanted, then made a 160 mile round trip to have a proper look at it in the shop, how it went together, all that. Then I went home and ordered it

They delivered it, in a great big truck, 200kg+ of it. And took it upstairs.

But I built it

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I think I have managed to get this far without ever having set a paw in ikea

this sort of traffic related balls up doesn't encourage me...

i used to know a couple who had an ikea moose who sat on their stairs -

they decorated his antlers for xmas each year...

 

[friendofdorothy]

There is a world beyond London you know

Certainly in the 20 or years or so since I first visited an Ikea there are more regional stores. It’s very handy having one near where I work.

Their first shop was in Warrington and we used to enjoy a family day out there eating exotic swedish food and buying tons of things that cost 50p-£2.

I thought that was when I was a teenager in the late 1970s but their site says it was in 1987 which seems wrong as I recall going there when I was a student pre 1984. I remember going with my mum and she died in 87. Am I remembering this all wrong?

*edit to add - my memory must be jumbled, but to be fair the northwest seemed stuck in the 70s for decades

 

[Elpenor]

My nearest one is 80 miles away. Which tends to fuel slightly binge-like shopping when I do get there.

When I was getting the wardrobes for this place (Pax, sliding doors), I specced it all up on their online tool, got it how I wanted, then made a 160 mile round trip to have a proper look at it in the shop, how it went together, all that. Then I went home and ordered it

They delivered it, in a great big truck, 200kg+ of it. And took it upstairs.

But I built it

When I lived in Reading there wasn’t one when I first needed to buy furniture, think it opened around 2014 or something. So did a few trips to Wembley / Croydon / Bristol which wasn’t ideal. Luckily there is one in Exeter to save going upcountry

As danski says it’s all about the weekday evenings visit, which may also mean you don’t have to build them the day you buy them

 

[existentialist]

When I lived in Reading there wasn’t one when I first needed to buy furniture, think it opened around 2014 or something. So did a few trips to Wembley / Croydon / Bristol which wasn’t ideal. Luckily there is one in Exeter to save going upcountry

As danski says it’s all about the weekday evenings visit, which may also mean you don’t have to build them the day you buy them

Before there were Croydon, even Dartford, and let alone Reading, there was just the one - the Wembley one, or Brent Cross, whatever it was. It usually took about an hour to get from SW London to Harlesden, and then the queues began. Not just for IKEA, but it certainly didn't help. I'm pretty sure we spent 2 1/2 hours getting there, once.

 

[existentialist]

When I lived in Reading there wasn’t one when I first needed to buy furniture, think it opened around 2014 or something. So did a few trips to Wembley / Croydon / Bristol which wasn’t ideal. Luckily there is one in Exeter to save going upcountry

As danski says it’s all about the weekday evenings visit, which may also mean you don’t have to build them the day you buy them

You say that, but I have rarely ever been able to resist the temptation, once I'm home

 

[friendofdorothy]

Before there were Croydon, even Dartford, and let alone Reading, there was just the one - the Wembley one, or Brent Cross, whatever it was. It usually took about an hour to get from SW London to Harlesden, and then the queues began. Not just for IKEA, but it certainly didn't help. I'm pretty sure we spent 2 1/2 hours getting there, once.

that's dedication.

 

[existentialist]

that's dedication.

It was worse than that. My #1 wife has/had some tendencies to OCD, and she didn't like the way some of the panels matched up, so we had to repeat the performance the following day, take ours back, and go into the warehouse to lift up the edges of the boxes to see what they were like. It's a wonder I still like the place! Taught me patience, though