Living Room Bookcases & Shelving

fantastic bookshelves created to be a perfect fit in my home

Advantages: customisable to your own needs, easy to create what you want, easy to build and looks good
Disadvantages: can be pricey in comparisson with ready made but reasonable at the side of other fitted furniture

Jali are an online website that create furniture to your own design and measurements. They are known for radiator covers but now make much more. Their cupboards are used a lot on TV makeover shows because they are easy to assemble and look extremely effective. Jali now create many different pieces of furniture including wardrobes, drawers, shutters, radiator cuovers, and bookshelves which you can plan to the size you want. The designer tool is easy ...
...online designer tool on the Jali site are a perfect fit in my home. At 13 foot wide and 8 foot tall (they fill one wall) I needed help to build them but they were easily assembled creating a beautiful piece of furniture that I expect to last for many many years. All items are prepared to your measurements so double check these (I must have remeasured half a dozen times to be sure I was right) and are cut from MDF which can be left plain or undercoated, ...

favelll 22.11.2009 · Read full review

Review of Jali Fretwork System

Experience a new idea in shelving

Advantages: versatile
Disadvantages: none

...and whilst looking on the IKEA website last week I realised I could make use of the expedit range of shelving IKEA sell in more ways than one. The shelving comes in a few different sizes and colours. You can buy a set of shelves that are square in shape at approx 70 x 70 cm. This is the smallest they sell and contains four inner square slots. A range of other sizes are available to include eight inner slots, sixteen inner slots and twenty inner ...
...would you. This range from IKEA comes into a class all on its own when you have a look at the accessories you can buy to make the shelves turn into a whole storage solution of their own. A standalone set of shelves, albeit with inner shelves to create cubes are very basic. That is until you put drawer inserts, doors, boxes etc into them. A box that comes with little handles made of strengthened canvas will cost you £2.99 and transform a basic set ...

abbadabbado 07.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of IKEA Expedit

Ikea expedit - surprisingly good!

Advantages: easy to build
Disadvantages: heavy

...wanting me to go to IKEA for ages, so I decided to go and get a bookcase the next day. Ikea have only been in Northern Ireland a short while, but in its time here it has revolutionised the furniture industry. The story of Ikea is a lovely one. In 1943, a seventeen year old Ingvar Kamprad set up a small store in his village. Now, it has grown to encompass 24 countries, and turnover 21 billion euros a year. I am a sceptic, and firmly believed that ...
...elsewhere. My overall opinion of Ikea is, that it is incredible. You can work on a low budget, without having to settle for poor quality goods. The store is easy to get round, and has bargains throughout. If anyone is looking for a smart looking, functional bookcase, without breaking the bank, then I would suggest the expedit from Ikea. The piece could also be used as a rather funky storage unit. Little boxes, and baskets are made by Ikea that fit ...

giksy21 16.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of IKEA Expedit

An Expedition to IKEA Leads to Expeditious Expediting Of EXPEDIT

Advantages: Cavernous, easy to build (mostly). Neat styling and apparently well made
Disadvantages: Bloody heavy & unlikely to survive taking apart (after all who keeps the instructions?)

...strange perchance happens to spell IKEA when abbreviated! *Pardon my A-Level German from 1968 Incidentally, we're the only people in Europe to pronounce it "Eye-Key-A", in that American "Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran" kind of way. The rest conform to calling it, somewhat more correctly, Ee-kay-ah. Anyway, that's got all my prejudices and mis-conceptions out of the way - for now at least! Watch them resurrect themselves as I try to build something. For a couple ...
...GETTING ONE The IKEA web-site is quite handy. Not only could you order it on line, for home delivery, but if you so desired, you could check stock position at your nearest branch. I opted for the latter with a degree of trepidation, not having the faintest inkling of its packed size (and weight). However, if you get there and find you have bitten off more than you can chew, you can always arrange delivery once through check-out. The reason I ...

BNibbles 27.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of IKEA Expedit