IKEA

[poliphilo]

The new IKEA in Ashton is proving so popular they have extra police on the streets around it to direct the traffic.

I like IKEA. Good, modern design at affordable prices- it's not just a shop it's a social revolution. 

I like to think- with Dresser and Morris and the Bauhaus people- that good design saves souls. 

If I were having to furnish a house from scratch (and what fun that would be) I'd take my shopping list to IKEA.

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[dakegra.livejournal.com]

we pretty much did that. Our downstairs is pretty open-plan and most of the stuff is from Ikea, barring the dining room table and dresser, both of which are lovely big chunky bits of real wood which will last forever.

Someone commented that our house felt very scandinavian. I wonder why?

:-)

I love the meatballs in their cafe too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I like it how IKEA refuses to compromise on the whole Scandanavian thing. How they won't anglicise anything, not even the food.

Ailz loves the meatballs. I'm a vegetarian (or more properly pescatarian) so I wouldn't know, but my haddock and chips were pretty good.

[clindau.livejournal.com]

We have an IKEA not too far away; I loves the lingonberries. And the meatballs. It's been open for a couple of years, and it's still insane to go in there. The next closest one is outside of Chicago which is a good seven/eight hour drive from Minneapolis, hence the hysteria.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We're lucky- we have a couple within an hour's drive and now this new one which is only ten minutes away.