Drooling In Ikea
Come on, drool at the lovely stuff in Ikea with me.
I’m going to be getting some builders in and refitting my office some time within the next six months and hence have been drooling in Ikea because I just love their office products and of course you can go crazy buying everything and anything you want because it’s all so darned cheap!
What is also great is that because it’s cheap it doesn’t matter if you buy fashion pieces, you don’t really need to think “Oh at these prices I need them to be classic and last me a long time” - who cares if it’s out of fashion in two years, buy a new one!!
So that means I can fashion myself an uber cool office, it’s so exciting and when it’s done I shall certainly treat you to photos.
So they have some inspirations for us:
Ikea have a fantastic ‘create your table’ tool where you can mix and match tops and legs and then it gives you an overall price and an option to print out your chosen combination.
And some pretty cool accessories/chairs etc:
If you are short on space, for instance if you work from home and don’t have space for a dedicated office, they have some fabulous ideas such as this wall unit below… Now that is innovative and cool at the same time:
November 18th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I got a wonderfully comfortable office chair from IKEA. The amount of time spent sitting in one, it makes sense to splash out.
November 18th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Funnily enough I bought a more expensive and apparently ‘better’ office chair a few years ago, but it’s still no where near as comfortable as the old large wooden kitchen chair with arms I was using.
That chair had perfect arm to leg to desk positioning and was super comfortable - however it kept falling apart at some of the joins after 4 years of sitting at it hour after hour, and pushing it back and forth (no wheels!), and no amount of re-gluing seemed to help, lol.
In fact the only way I found able to tolerate this new chair and prevent back pain, was to strap something to the arm rest to correct the arm to desk positioning which wasn’t right despite adjusting chair height etc. So I’ve got an Adobe Illustrator user manual taped around the arm to raise my arm height.
Can you see how much I need a new office?
Clearly ‘new chair’ also being a priority!
January 5th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Ikea really do hit the nail on the head with their products - great designs, great prices - got to love Scandinavian concepts
January 5th, 2009 at 11:24 am
True true - I think they are design geniuses.
I recently furnished our children’s bedroom in wall to wall Ikea ….nice pure white theme, which always looks nice in a Victorian house.
I can’t wait to go there office shopping!