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well as you might know (not sure if i mentioned it), i've been in the process of moving into my grandmother's old room. i cleared out everything in january and have been trying my very best to procure furniture for it.
january till now and it's still not done. "but it's only furniture," you say. a bed, a cupboard, a shelf, a table, a chair. that's all i want and it's still so hard to get done. oh and painting it took a damn long time too.
anyway when we think furniture, we think IKEA. it's almost programmed into us, our tiny little brains can't hold information for more than one furniture megastore.
there's nothing wrong with ikea, really. in fact, ikea is great, it's cheap, simple, everything that i, or anyone else for that matter, would love. so why didn't i just go to ikea?
some time back, i read an article about the global homogenisation of products, about how things are the same everywhere now. we go to mcdonalds, we go to starbucks, we go to IKEA.
individual locations in the world no longer hold their own charm, because every city is the same as every other city. and the same goes for furniture. a room in sweden would have the exact same furniture as one in china, same as one in australia.
i found it quite sad, so i told myself NO IKEA! but in the end i went to ikea, because ikea is cheap and simple and readily available. i do not have the time or money to support my dream.
well, my idealistic dreams to prevent global domination shall have to wait, i guess. so i went to ikea and lo and behold, their stuff didn't match my tastes as i thought they would, and besides, they didn't have stock.
i ended up with an ikea shelf and chair, so it could be said that ikea still managed to dominate my room with 2 out of 5 items. so so so anywayyy i got a bed from courts and now i'm only lacking a table.
and hell, the damn table is really impossible to find. NOWHERE. it's like my white t-shirt problem all over again. something nice and simple ought to be easy to find at relatively cheap prices, right? WRONG.
january till now and it's still not done. "but it's only furniture," you say. a bed, a cupboard, a shelf, a table, a chair. that's all i want and it's still so hard to get done. oh and painting it took a damn long time too.
anyway when we think furniture, we think IKEA. it's almost programmed into us, our tiny little brains can't hold information for more than one furniture megastore.
there's nothing wrong with ikea, really. in fact, ikea is great, it's cheap, simple, everything that i, or anyone else for that matter, would love. so why didn't i just go to ikea?
some time back, i read an article about the global homogenisation of products, about how things are the same everywhere now. we go to mcdonalds, we go to starbucks, we go to IKEA.
individual locations in the world no longer hold their own charm, because every city is the same as every other city. and the same goes for furniture. a room in sweden would have the exact same furniture as one in china, same as one in australia.
i found it quite sad, so i told myself NO IKEA! but in the end i went to ikea, because ikea is cheap and simple and readily available. i do not have the time or money to support my dream.
well, my idealistic dreams to prevent global domination shall have to wait, i guess. so i went to ikea and lo and behold, their stuff didn't match my tastes as i thought they would, and besides, they didn't have stock.
i ended up with an ikea shelf and chair, so it could be said that ikea still managed to dominate my room with 2 out of 5 items. so so so anywayyy i got a bed from courts and now i'm only lacking a table.
and hell, the damn table is really impossible to find. NOWHERE. it's like my white t-shirt problem all over again. something nice and simple ought to be easy to find at relatively cheap prices, right? WRONG.
2 Comments:
why don't ya make a table from ikea ? just buy some legs and a table top.. comes in all kinds and sizes.
ikea furnitures are fun to hack
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Marky, at March 31, 2010 10:17 pm
yea i thought of that but... i figured it was too troublesome and now i'll need to pay another $50 delivery fee IF i do it.
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cromber, at April 01, 2010 7:25 pm
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