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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Huge business opportunity for someone living near an IKEA to go pickup orders and take them to UPS to ship for a reasonable cost. There’s a company in Nashville that’s been in business for like 15 years more or less just driving to Atlanta to buy Ikea things for people and keeping a marked-up Nashville inventory of the most popular things.
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Thufir posted:There’s a company in Nashville that’s been in business for like 15 years more or less just driving to Atlanta to buy Ikea things for people and keeping a marked-up Nashville inventory of the most popular things. There used to be a company called Pirate Joe's that did the same, taking Trader Joe's stuff across the Canadian border and selling it there. They got shut down.
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Is Ikea's delivery just hosed regionally? I just had an eknesset chair shipped for $10 via UPS. It didn't even ship from the closest IKEA (about 25 minutes away) .
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a dingus posted:Is Ikea's delivery just hosed regionally? I just had an eknesset chair shipped for $10 via UPS. It didn't even ship from the closest IKEA (about 25 minutes away) . I'm in the process of installing an IKEA kitchen and have had to make several extra orders for bits here and there. Where your item comes from depends on what you're ordering. If the item is coming from the local Ikea it'll ship via their logistics company. If it's coming from the regional distribution center it might come via FedEx/UPS if your entire order is available from that hub otherwise it might first go to your local warehouse then ship out via their logistics company. At least, that seems to have been my experience over the last six months or so.
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a dingus posted:Is Ikea's delivery just hosed regionally? I just had an eknesset chair shipped for $10 via UPS. It didn't even ship from the closest IKEA (about 25 minutes away) . I could order 1 x Kallax with free shipping. If I add a second it jumps to $200 shipping. Something is hosed.
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My mom tried to order a chair for my daughter and it just… never was sent? 4 months in purgatory, eventually I just went myself when we needed some other things and got it. If Ikea ever did figure out shipping, they would be unstoppable. Maybe that’s for the best.
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I went with Ikea for my kitchen remodel and the delivery portion was a huge pain in the rear end. I think My order had over 200 items, probably 100+ boxes. Everything was delivered via their logistics company, but the delivery dates were sort of questionable. When I finally received a delivery, it turned out that it wasn't my entire order, so I had to wait another few days for the logistics company to drop off the remaining items. Then, when you take delivery you have something like a 48 hour window to do a full inventory of what was sent to you and compare it to your order list to make sure you received everything. I think outside of that window they will make you pay for any additional or missing items. That was not fun, but my wife and I managed to do it. What you don't realize is if an item on your kitchen design somehow doesn't make it to your order list you won't realize you're missing something. This happened to use with the 2 4ft x 8ft panels that you use to enclose the refrigerator. Somehow the person that placed our order deleted those items from our parts list so we only discovered they were missing when we started hanging all the cabinets. Fortunately the Ikea in Austin had the panels in stock, but we then had to go borrow someone else's car because there was no way they would fit in whatever vehicle we took to the store. ohhyeah posted:Someone else will have to help with expensive furniture but I have Ikea recommendations. We installed a Besta entertainment center/system at my mom's house and while it's not unattractive, I was disappointed in the sturdiness of the cabinets versus the SEKTION kitchen cabinets. I think they also would not fit most stereos/receivers so that ruled them out for my purposes.
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MetaJew posted:We installed a Besta entertainment center/system at my mom's house and while it's not unattractive, I was disappointed in the sturdiness of the cabinets versus the SEKTION kitchen cabinets. I think they also would not fit most stereos/receivers so that ruled them out for my purposes. Huh? I thought all the media stuff was going in the BDI media console. I was just giving ideas for furniture to go next to it. If you have specific requirements maybe you should go to the audiophile threads. Or BDI has a dedicated audio tower in that collection.
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BDI is really good i have this media unit from dwr https://www.dwr.com/living-media-storage/aura-media-unit/1198.html?sku=100156878 this one is also kind of cool if you like the BDI stuff https://www.dwr.com/living-media-storage/line-media-console/5158.html?lang=en_US&sku=100143645 you could just center them against the wall and put one speaker on each side
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Why is there so much hate for accordion doors? I'm in the process of buying a house, and (among others) the door to the furnace / water heater closet has bifold doors. Because of where it is, even bifolds take up too much space when open. There's no room for either a pocket door or barn door, and I feel like it's unsafe to have the utilities close to a curtain. I really don't want them just exposed, though. I honestly really like accordion doors, and I think they're the right answer here, but if the whole Internet hates them then there must be a reason.
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Hungry Squirrel posted:Why is there so much hate for accordion doors? I think most people (myself included) associate accordion doors with late 20th century interiors like this:  Not that there's anything really wrong with that room -- and the door looks decently constructed. It's just extremely out of style. They also tend to be so cheap that they're always falling off the tracks, the panels crack easily, the plastic yellows over time etc. But I'm sure there are more premium or stylish options out there that people wouldn't bat an eyelash at.
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Hungry Squirrel posted:I'm in the process of buying a house, and (among others) the door to the furnace / water heater closet has bifold doors. Because of where it is, even bifolds take up too much space when open. There's no room for either a pocket door or barn door, and I feel like it's unsafe to have the utilities close to a curtain. I really don't want them just exposed, though. If there is one thing irrelevant to home decor, it's the door to the furnace room. Seriously. It performs the function of preventing the furnace from being on full view all the time, and that's all it needs to do.
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Wasn’t sure whether to post this here or in the house thread but here goes. We have an office with a standard sliding glass door with vertical vinyl blinds. We’re converting it to a baby room (first one for us) and I wanted to find a better solution to block out light, since the blinds are pretty terrible for that. I’ve seen a couple options online (roller blinds, black out drapes) but I’m wondering what someone who actually knows about this stuff might suggest. I’m not exactly window-treatment savvy.
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a primate posted:Wasn’t sure whether to post this here or in the house thread but here goes. Congrats! I feel like blackout curtains are probably going to be the simplest option (make sure they are washable for when baby learns to projectile vomit). Maybe it is just me, but I would imagine adjusting any kind of blinds to be a little more fussy than I would want to deal with while e.g. pacing with a colicky newborn. Unless you get the remote-control kind I guess.
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a primate posted:Wasn’t sure whether to post this here or in the house thread but here goes. I researched a lot of blackout curtains and I fortunately the best ones no longer are available -- Bed, Bath, and Beyond made some that did an excellent job of blocking light and were made with nice fabric. Now everything that's out there outside of custom stuff seems either to suck at blocking light, or had cheap fabric. These curtains from Amazon do a great job of blocking light but the fabric is subpar -- feels a bit cheap. But there's a simple solution if you really want the room to look nice: buy another set of grommet curtains in the same size with nice fabric and stack the curtains with the blackout curtain facing out the window. You get all of the light filtered out, and people looking in can't tell the fabric is cheap.
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Thanks for the suggestions, I think I’ll pick a pair of those up. I was thinking of putting up some sheers behind the blackouts for when a little light would be nice. I guess I’ll have to buy a dual track curtain rod or something. Off to Google I go.
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My apartment has a small dining room, a square space roughly 7.5’ x 7.5’ in size. Almost more of a nook. The kitchen has an eating counter that sits at least two, but I want to fill the dining space with a table as well. Apparently you need at least 3’ of clearance on all sides, so I can only get a 1.5’ x 1.5’ table  What other options do I have? How would you fill a 7.5’ x 7.5’ dining room(/nook)? I don’t have company often, so no heavy use, but it’d be nice to eat there instead of the counter or maybe set up a board game or hobby space or something. Pollyanna fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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Push a table up against a wall. Built in booth seating along one side (or this is a rental, so they don't have to be attached to a wall, just up against it). Bench seating. One of those standing only tables they have at outdoor bars...
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Pollyanna posted:My apartment has a small dining room, a square space roughly 7.5’ x 7.5’ in size. Almost more of a nook. The kitchen has an eating counter that sits at least two, but I want to fill the dining space with a table as well. Apparently you need at least 3’ of clearance on all sides, so I can only get a 1.5’ x 1.5’ table That’s plenty of room for a standard size restaurant booth. Hell, go nuts and buy an old diner booth off Facebook. You have barely enough room to build a high roller style full radius half circle booth, which would be my recommendation. Check it out: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/guide/781/how-to-choose-restaurant-booths-for-your-dining-room.html 
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Any goons proud of their home office setups? I could use visual inspiration. I have about 12 x 20 feet to work with, thinking large desk but also a chill sitting area with a TV.
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Mine is just being finished up so it looks half like a construction zone but I'm really digging it so far. I need to mount my shelf boards and put my pictures and stuff up on the wall still. This space is about 12x12. If I had 8ft more I'd definitely put in a TV with a small couch and coffee table. It'd be the perfect size for that.  I have to say my original idea for a layout was much different. I had my desk on the blue wall to take better advantage of the window. But ultimately I liked this better once I got my things inside. So you might plan and do something totally different when it's all said and done. For inspiration I leaned into things I really like such as 18th century stuff and MCM. I spent a lot of time browsing pictures on Reddit and bookmarking/taking notes on what I liked.
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smoobles posted:Any goons proud of their home office setups? I could use visual inspiration. No pics of the actual space because I’m still setting it up after moving but I have one of these and it’s pretty great. It’s sort of like American made danish inspired furniture. I’m really trying to acquire a fourth bay so that it takes up the entire length of my wall. https://midcenturywarehouse.com/kopenhavn-mid-century-wall-unit/
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smoobles posted:Any goons proud of their home office setups? I could use visual inspiration. 
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Its great that you have the toilet right next to your work station.
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This looks great, my only critique is you should consider a double or queen size bed in case a girl comes over for the night.
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Finally got a pendant for my table. Next step is definitely a dimmer switch for the bulb
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smoobles posted:Any goons proud of their home office setups? I could use visual inspiration.
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actionjackson posted:Finally got a pendant for my table. Next step is definitely a dimmer switch for the bulb
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actionjackson posted:Finally got a pendant for my table. Next step is definitely a dimmer switch for the bulb Sick lamp
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thanks - it's 30" above the table. 30-36" seems to be standard. edit: lamp is semi from gubi actionjackson fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Oct 13, 2023 |
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When did people start calling it home office instead of study?
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March 11th, 2020
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Pondering the great mysteries of the universe in my princely cabinet
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3D Megadoodoo posted:When did people start calling it home office instead of study?
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Nybble posted:March 11th, 2020 lmao
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finally doing the upgrade to the saarinen table for that spot. 20% off and free shipping means it's basically what it ways pre-covid unfortunately my table is good for one person, or three people, but not two as you necessarily have the table legs in the way of the legs of one person at all times. it's really more of a "cafe table" but worked fine when covid was raging as no one was visiting!
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Has anyone here ever hid their living room TV behind sliding art panels? I'm moving to a new place where it won't really be feasible to have a separate home theater anymore, but I am 100% against having an obvious TV in the middle of the living room. The solution I thought up was to get a super thin wall-mounted TV and place two sliding art pieces (or maybe one huge art piece!) in front of it, which I can just slide out of the way when I want to use the TV. Selling off my separate home theater gear will conveniently help to pay this off.  These Media Decor Art Lifts look like the perfect solution but they are $8,750. They are automatic and silent and fancy and I don't need all that, I'm happy just pushing it out of the way manually. Also I would pick some art that isn't godawful.
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Have an artwork you like printed on canvas, then mount it as a drape above the TV with a cord to lift/lower it.
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