The Ikea Conundrum

I was inspired by Stuart’s post of “Street Furniture” yesterday, and the lengths people will go to score cheap or free furniture. I’ve scored my share of street finds, but sometimes weird wooden thrones just aren’t very feng shui. Having just moved into a new place with no closets, I find myself throwing myself at the feet of the cruel mistress that is Ikea . It all starts when the glossy catalog arrives in the mail with all their perfectly styled rooms and exotic sounding Swedish nam

A Home Workspace

We moved to our new place couple of months back and having an extra bedroom let me finally have a personal workspace that doubles up as our library and reading space. Using cheap furniture either from Walmart, Ikea or even the Used Furniture store in town, I created a simple clutter-free space. Since most of my work is done online, paper has been nearly eliminated and the clutter-free look is largely achieved by my need to hide cables and wiring. This workspace was featured last week on Lifehac

Mactalk reviews: Ikea Lögan

/gt; alt= /gt; With the world’s economy writhing around in the gutter, investment track-marks up and down its arms, having recently pissed itself for the nth time this year, and screaming at passer-bys for its next stimulus hit, it’s reassuring to know you can still by furniture for your house with little more than the shrapnel you found underneath the couch after last weekends goon fueled drinking sesh. And so it was early on a Saturday morning (far too early really, who knew there

Do Ikea’s Products Reflect the True Price?

Ikea’s slogan is “low prices but not at any price.” Ikea is known for its cheap furniture that customers have to put together at home. A recent article in The Atlantic asked (about Ikea), “Can we afford to keep shopping at places where an item’s price reflects only a fraction of its societal costs?” One of the biggest societal costs is environmental. As Boston University professor Ellen Ruppel Shell, author of Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, puts it, Ikea relies “on consumers to carr

IKEA Hack - How to Make a Kitchen Countertop Shelf!

IKEA has probably the cheapest, nicest furniture ever. Nevermind the fact that 2 coffee tables I have bought from IKEA in the last 2 years have all broke, there’s always room for little hacking such as this cool Kitchen Countertop Shelf that will create a lot of extra space for your kitchen gadgets such as bowls, pans, and whatnot. I have seen IKEA go from nothing to a national retailer in America and I have to say IKEA is still cheap furniture (I will never buy a coffee table from IKEA ever