The Ikea Experience

So we have moved into our new house, much of our furniture was unable to actually make it into the house, and we now need to furnish the apartment – on a budget!

Off to Ikea we go. Now I’ve heard that this place is and experience, but really, I had no idea!

We arrive with a vague idea of what we want but with no idea of how many options we would have!

To paint the picture – Ikea is a super huge store that offers absolutely everything you can think of when it comes to furnishing your house or putting on the finishing touches. I mean everything!

It is laid out with various rooms on display to give you ideas as to how you want to do your rooms and then there is every possible option to make it your own. You look around for hours and get ideas and then when you’ve made your decisions you simply write down the product code and other info and move onto the next step.

The next step is actually getting your stuff. Now when you are writing down the info of the furniture you write down the isle number and bin number. I was not entirely sure what this meant when I was doing it but I was soon to find out.

Basically you make your way into this HUGE warehouse, with countless numbers of Isles and Bins where you – yes you – find your items. Everything is flat packed and it is up to you to put it onto a cart and go checkout.

Now we were most happy to discover that most of our items actually fitted into the boot (trunk) of the car! Ok I have to admit that even though I will never admit to liking the Camry due to the lack of excitement it offers, I am becoming increasingly impressed with what it has to offer – in this case – boot space. We only had to have a few longer items delivered which was also a pretty painless experience.

So all that was left was to get everything home and built – which was my job. Yes I was partly dreading it but pretty excited as I’ve always considered myself a bit of a handy-girl. So borrowing a tool kit from The Neighbor, I got to work.

I have to tell you that even though the tasks were pretty simple considering, it was still exhausted! It took me a full two days to put everything together.

I have to give credit to Ikea in that their stuff is good, the experience was great and thankfully, the instructions were simple! I have plans to go back this weekend and maybe get a couple of extra’s.