Ikea

...I was thinking. The Ikea in Belfast has only been open a fortnight or so, and people are still a bit new-fangled with it. Also, it's three days before Christmas, which seems to be all the motivation some people need to cram all the small, whiny, snotty-nosed children they can find into a mega-big car and bring them to a very large homewares shop in order to have a public row with their partner and then slap aforementioned irritating children around ...
...have any awareness of what Ikea is will now be chuckling gently at my foolish optimism. More of my experiences later, though. First we'll have a bit of history, shall we? (NB. Some or all of the history may be made up, because actually researching stuff is quite tedious.) Ikea is a Swedish firm that's named after a giant who was made entirely out of sofas. It was established…ooh, ages ago by two men known as 'Ike' and 'A'. They decided they could ...

tallulahbang 21.12.2007 · Read full review
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...blue with a bright yellow IKEA sign around each side of the buildings. When can I go? Opening times vary from store to store but through the week they are mainly open 10am till 10pm some may open slightly earlier and at least 1 closes at midnight. Saturdays are usually 9am till 10 pm but again this can vary some don't open till 10am and some will close at 8pm. Sunday opening seems to be 11am till 5pm but some stores open at 10am but you can't ...
...the most popular lines at IKEA is an up lighter, it is a simple silver coloured base it an adjustable pole and an opaque plastic up lighter shade. Almost everyone I know has at least one of there and at around £6 they are a bargain. They stock a vast range of wall lights, table lamps, floor standing lamps and light fittings as well as bulbs. They are worth visiting if only to stock up on energy saving light bulbs at around £1.50 each depending on ...

tarara 14.01.2005 (16.01.2005) · Read full review
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I had never visited an Ikea until recently, mainly because I have never lived near one. I now live just up the road from the one on Wembley and so decided to take a visit. Ikea is a Swedish store that basically sells everything for the home from furniture to decoration. It is a huge store and is really obvious from the moment you see it due to its blue and yellow colouring on the building, which of course is copying the Swedish flag. Ikea is meant ...
...prices. If you have an Ikea family card you can get free tea and coffee, which is great. The café consists of lots of tables with chairs that are all chairs that are sold in the store so you can even have a look at the chairs whilst in the café. The most famous meal at Ikea is the very Swedish meatballs. You can get these for a really cheap price of 3.25. They also sell other hot meals, puddings and snacks so something for everyone. All of it is ...

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...when searching for reviews including Ikea that they number 666 - The mark of the beast- so here goes with number 667. I am fortunate or unfortunate (depending on your perspective) to have an Ikea store within 5 minutes drive from home. This is more in theory than in practice as the store is situated in Wednesbury just beyond Junction 9 of the M6 if I don't choose my time carefully can be a 30 minute drive away. Plus if I am really foolish and try ...
...are visitors from another planet. Ikea is a Swedish company specialising in self assembly flat pack furniture and almost everything else you could need from your home at cheap and cheerful prices. Fortunately not all its products look cheap but many of the are definitely cheerful. If you are unfamiliar with Ikea please have a look at their website www.ikea.com to get an idea of the wide range of goods that you can buy here. THE SHOPPING EXPERIENCE ...

baeswoman 10.09.2007 · Read full review
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...with their large, plastic, yellow IKEA holdalls, the crush quickly dispersed into the huge maze of isles on the first floor. IKEA is a Swedish owned chain of warehouse style stores. The IKEA principle is 'good design for everyone - without the need to save hard first.' On offer is a wealth of individually designed furniture, furnishings, kitchens, ornaments and utensils. Some of which is set out to resemble a complete room, with the rest displayed ...
...IKEA and if you have more expensive taste, the higher price tags are there too. I've never had a problem with the quality of the products and every purchase has so far come complete with all the necessary instructions and fixings. Each item is tagged with a price, dimensions and a warehouse location code. Note down the code and take it to the ground floor warehouse where you will find a huge area filled to the roof with flat pack boxes. Each isle ...

inycon2 15.10.2004 · Read full review
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...when you arrive at the Ikea store, parking your car is fine during week days, but at weekends the only park you will get is the Heli - pad, just wishful thinking. Even so; it still remains exciting, because we are about to enter the world of flat pack. Many of us do not like flat pack furniture and in some ways there is a stigma attached to buying and assembling our own furniture. If we go to a top store and purchase that solid wood dining table ...
...monde. But Most of Ikea furniture is solid wood! The only difference is; we have to build it our selves. We are so much tending to be perfectionists; we cannot tell our selves, that flat pack furniture is just as good if not better than the real mc-coy. On entering the store it is a mad dash to get our bag and pencil, you may ask what’s the pencil for, why of course it’s our little life saver so you can make note and jot down everything you see ...

halk 21.06.2007 · Read full review
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...and photographers beaten when Ikea opened a store in the Saudi Arabian town of Jeddah. Ikea had promised the first 250 customers vouchers between 20 and 100 Euro (~ 68 GBP) and more than 70 000 people came, many camped in front of the entrance the whole night. Ikea in Saudi Arabia? Oh, yes, since 1983 if you want to know, the store in Jeddah is one of the 186 stores in 31 countries/territories either owned by Ikea or run by franchisees (21), only ...
...Germans know the brand name Ikea (it used to be Aldi, Ikea, ebay, but recently ebay has pushed to the front). It is a source of endless mirth to us that Brits pronounce the name Ay-kea, the rest of Europe (I can´t speak for the other continents) says Ee-kea as it should be. Why should it be like this? Well: ´I´ and ´K´ are the initials of the founder Ingvar Kamprad, E stands for his parental home Elmtaryd and A for Agunnaryd, the village where he ...

MALU 05.12.2004 (30.09.2005) · Read full review
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...thing that you notice about IKEA stores is how pleasant they are on the eye. The layout is done in such a way that you move from furnished room to furnished room, with sections along the way that show the range of products for each room in your home. In this way, you not only can see what is available, but also get an idea of how it can look in your own home. I truly appreciate this type of layout. One of the best things for me was to see that certain ...
...useful shopping tool. The IKEA catalogue is no exception, and is probably one of the better ones I've seen, since it gives a very good representation of the store itself. So I wasn't much surprised at what I saw there, since I had "visited" it so often before when browsing through their catalogue. (Funny thing - the new catalogue arrived in the mail only two days after my visit!) Key - Everywhere, throughout the display areas, you will find tags ...

TheChocolateLady 27.08.2002 · Read full review
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...of you that don't know. Ikea is a Swedish company. The idea is that they provide a wide range of home furnishings with good design and function at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. My local Ikea is about 5 miles from where I live in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. The store is well signposted and adjacent to the A610 and the M1, making it ideally situated. The car park is huge. I think it has to be because Ikea ...
...store, we set off around Ikea to seek out the bargains. So what do they sell? Well I would say that if you had to furnish and equip a house in a hurry you would be able to do it all here. Ikea pride themselves in providing design opinions to allow you to furnish your house in the way that you want. On entering the store you are able to wander around various tasteful interiors, decorated and furnished to give you an idea of what you can achieve with ...

MandyMinx 22.01.2004 · Read full review
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...THE STORE Ikea is a Swedish company that has been trading in this country for many years. The store a large blue edifice with Ikea emblazoned on it in large yellow letters, is approached through a large car park, (never seems to be quite big enough whenever I have driving round for ten minutes looking for a space), so a good tip is to get there early. The store opens at ten AM but a nice touch is that free tea and coffee is available in the café ...
...have been pointed out to Ikea as the last time we went cut throughs had been added enabling you to miss sections that you don’t want to visit. WHAT TO BUY? The choice of goods at Ikea is huge virtually anything you can think of for the home. The furniture ranging from three piece suites to beds, wardrobes, tables and chairs kitchens etc. is all of modern straightforward design and is reasonably priced. Most cupboards, wardrobes etc., come in flat ...

docpov 27.05.2004 · Read full review
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Ikea is not so much a shopping outlet – for many people it is a way of life – and the Swedish proprietors love it that way. Going to Ikea is not about buying one or two items – it’s about embracing a lifestyle and a set of values. Having previously lived near a brand new Ikea centre, I must confess I was suitably intrigued by all the hype, and it wasn’t that long before I found myself wandering through the showrooms ...
...there. Either way, I hate Ikea – and the following opinions will give you some insight into why that is. EMBRACING THE IKEA VALUES Ikea’s success has been partly attributed to their socially responsible attitude towards shops and shopping. By using a series of carefully positioned statements, Ikea have managed to counteract many of the criticisms that shoppers launch at them. They are universally renowned for being cheap – a claim ...

LostWitness 13.02.2002 · Read full review
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...get round the store. Ikea stores are readily identifiable due to the rather large and colourful signage. This large sign is a blue rectangle with a yellow oval placed in its centre. In the centre of the oval in the same shade of blue is the wording Ikea. The store I visited was at Straiton Retail park just outside Edinburgh, finding it was easy as it is well signposted, and as you get closer there is even a lane marked specifically for Ikea, how's ...
...numerous items on sale in Ikea from a simple Pizza cutter, to a single vase, to a complete bedroom layout with cupboards and bed and units. A lot of the smaller items which are both practical and cheap are also of very high quality, but unfortunately there is as there is in most stores, a fair amount of crap just waiting for some poor soul to buy. This aside most of the stock is pretty good value for money, and some of it is exceptional value. I ...

donf18 17.11.2007 · Read full review
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...matter of whether you view IKEA as being a good shopping place to take children, or somewhere to buy products for children. Well, when I think about it, maybe it's a good place for both. Firstly, IKEA for many is a day out. For me and my mother (who incidently, loves IKEA too) we can spend hours browsing round, we'll have lunch in the restaurant half way round, and then buy a 49p hotdog at the end. So when I contemplate it (as I haevn't got kids ...
...need to browse through an IKEA catalogue to get the inspiration and tips you need on making use of a corner or a small space in compact place. On looking through their catalogue you will instantly notice that it isn't only the products which are inspirational but the layout and uses of products in the photos, which are arranged into rooms. This makes it that much easier for the consumer to visualise how hidden, and often unthought of spaces can be ...

HappyBunny 26.10.2001 · Read full review
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...inside. For my family, Ikea means Brent Cross, so that's the store I'm going to talk about, Having never actually been to any of the others I can't comment on whether they are the same, but being a large company I expect they are similar. You walk into the main entrance and decide to nip to the toilet, I use the word nip loosely as in reality you'll probably have to quee for a while. But after that and dropping any irratated kids off at the ball ...
...the first half hour. Ikea is great on a budget and especially for young children. The ball pond area means you can leave your kids for a while for some uninterupted shopping and the restaurant has all sorts of facilities such as bottle warming. There are numerous mother and baby rooms in store too. Ikea operates on a real hands on policy, they want you to fiddle with the objects and check they do what you want them to. This espcially goes in childrens ...

Alican 20.10.2004 · Read full review
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IKEA is a staple requirement in our home. No, we are not kitted out in Scandinavian minimalist space age looking furniture, nor do we have an abundance of IKEA storage boxes but yes, we do like the accessories and of course the food from the Swedish shop. We probably make a family visit to IKEA whenever we pass one or at least once every few months as IKEA and its Swedishness is as close to Sweden as we get with a reasonable and usually cheap price ...
...concept* In Sweden, IKEA as a chain is just as big as here, if not bigger. It is the place that the normal man who doesn't have pockets full of money will buy his furniture and accessories and it is safe to say that most Swedish homes will be furnished and accessorised by IKEA. In Sweden, nature and the home both play a big part in people's lives. In fact, one of the best ways to describe the Swedish home furnishing style is to describe nature - ...

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