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IKEA is my new favorite store
Mar. 20th, 2005 09:19 amOh, man. For $55, I got three lightbulbs, a floor lamp and a coffee table. That rules. I got the DALFOR table. I'm going to return the NOT lamp because I didn't realize it has the cord hanging down the outside and I don't like how it looks. But IKEA still rules. I'm going to go with my mum some time and get the VESTBY wardrobe, because it won't easily fit in my car (and she has a big car). I want some throw pillows and a rug too. And a table lamp and some glasses and those steel mixing bowls and basically to furnish my entire apartment with IKEA stuff. ...I'll just get the wardrobe and pillows for now. Maybe the rug if it's not too expensive. The red RINGUM is nice except I don't buy wool. It looks like they have a lot more rugs in the store than on the site but I didn't have a good look at the rug section so maybe they're the same.
I'd never been to IKEA before. I was looking online for coffee tables and I couldn't believe it when I saw this nice glass and metal one for $30. I told my brother I was going and he said I'd get lost in there. I'd seen it from the freeway but I didn't have a real idea of how big it was. My first clue was when I saw the big IKEA sign on the building and I kept driving to get to the parking lot... and driving... and driving... and there was another 10-foot-high IKEA sign... and then I got to the 3 or 4 story parking garage. That was just for IKEA. Duuuude. And then I got inside and saw there were maps of the store. I didn't take one but I had get up one along with a little pencil later when I discovered I'd have to remember the aisle and bin numbers for the furniture so I could pick it up.
It's a great strategy, making you walk through the whole mazelike showroom part before you get to the warehouse part where you actually get the furniture. I'd comment on how that seems a little sinister and how they're crushing any competition with their low prices except I really, really love their products. There's just something about the modern, urban apartment look that appeals to me. I want one of those little dinosaur sculptures. It makes me want to get a studio apartment in the city except Snape pees on my bed so it'd have to be a one-bedroom. And I don't think I could afford that. I'm getting closer to that style, though. This place in Richmond is a bit out of the way but it's nice and modern and not way out in the boonies. My mum insists that I'd be better off paying the same rent for a two bedroom out in Hercules or something. That would make my commute at least 40 minutes, in morning traffic. I might as well stay in Davis. So I'm staying here in Richmond.
Indiana Krycek icon, just for the hell of it.
I'd never been to IKEA before. I was looking online for coffee tables and I couldn't believe it when I saw this nice glass and metal one for $30. I told my brother I was going and he said I'd get lost in there. I'd seen it from the freeway but I didn't have a real idea of how big it was. My first clue was when I saw the big IKEA sign on the building and I kept driving to get to the parking lot... and driving... and driving... and there was another 10-foot-high IKEA sign... and then I got to the 3 or 4 story parking garage. That was just for IKEA. Duuuude. And then I got inside and saw there were maps of the store. I didn't take one but I had get up one along with a little pencil later when I discovered I'd have to remember the aisle and bin numbers for the furniture so I could pick it up.
It's a great strategy, making you walk through the whole mazelike showroom part before you get to the warehouse part where you actually get the furniture. I'd comment on how that seems a little sinister and how they're crushing any competition with their low prices except I really, really love their products. There's just something about the modern, urban apartment look that appeals to me. I want one of those little dinosaur sculptures. It makes me want to get a studio apartment in the city except Snape pees on my bed so it'd have to be a one-bedroom. And I don't think I could afford that. I'm getting closer to that style, though. This place in Richmond is a bit out of the way but it's nice and modern and not way out in the boonies. My mum insists that I'd be better off paying the same rent for a two bedroom out in Hercules or something. That would make my commute at least 40 minutes, in morning traffic. I might as well stay in Davis. So I'm staying here in Richmond.
Indiana Krycek icon, just for the hell of it.
