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Originally Posted by kazbates
I've never understood my daughter Shannon's fascination with IKEA. She can't wait to get her own apartment and start buying furniture there.
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IKEA has decent stuff for a decent price. And I personally like a lot of their stuff too.
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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
I do like some of the furniture, if I'm honest. It's just the stores themselves I hate :shudders:
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Originally Posted by Cabe
I'd be fine if it was laid out sensibly, and I wasn't herded around like cattle.
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Our IKEA has shortcuts everywhere. If you walk at shopping speed, you can take over 30 minutes or less than 10 to cross the entire shop. Sometimes we do the long route, sometimes the short (when we know exactly where we need to go)
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Virtually my entire house is furnished from IKEA - there's a big "superstore" about 5 miles away from where I live. My book collection is housed in their "Billy" bookcases, for example .
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My book collection is housed in a IVAR shelving system
And my old (= ancient) bed, which I had since I was a girl is still in our spare bedroom. It must be over 20 years old now (as are some of my IVAR system parts).
When I started living up north, there was only a "catalog" store (you could only order stuff, not take it with you). Then they made this "large" store as a lot of people wanted one. And within 5 years (they had planned about 10 years) it was too small again... (after that catalog store, we had the smallest but one in the country, now we have the largest but one and they're rebuilding already and when they're finished, we'll have the largest but one in Europe, only Sweden will have a larger one...)