If you’re a dude living in either 1965 or 2013, purchasing this grill is a forgone conclusion. “How would you classify this grill,” I ask Belinda Lanks, Co.D’s intrepid deputy editor. “I’d say it’s retro midcentury,” she responds. And with that, my suspicions were confirmed. Show More Summary
Hello friends and welcome to a new week with me and my columnists here on decor8. I hope you are doing well! I thought I’d start the week off by telling you about the new IKEA Paper Shop that recently launched here in Europe in select stores and if all goes well, the concept may [...]
By now, we all know about the benefits of standing desks, but replacing your own desk is a big leap of faith. If you want to practice with a standing desk before you decide to take the leap, this simple IKEA hack is really easy to build, and will barely cost you anything. Read more...
Q: I recently moved my couch onto the wall and love the position of it, as it opens up the space, but now the TV cabinets (shelves from IKEA) don't fit into the corner space, so I would like to find another option. Should I buy a different...Show More Summary
The furniture company gives people a way to make their toys look more modern.
Shirley and Berkely Smith met at the Elizabeth, New Jersey IKEA over seven years ago, and last weekend that's where they got married. The couple originally contacted the store just to plan a photo op in the exact aisle where they met, but the team at IKEA said they could do better than that. Show More Summary
Photo via Dezeen Swedish furnishings giant Ikea has just unleashed a brand-spanking-new line of dollhouse wares, tiny versions of their most popular products, including EXPEDIT shelves, the VAGO chair, the LACK table, and, of course, the KLIPPAN sofa. The entire...
Most of us will never build our own car from scratch. Hell, most of us can't even hack together Ikea furniture. Understanding that, Toyota has built a prototype for the Camatte57s, a car you assemble yourself very easily, apparently. Read more...
Realizing that kids who grow up playing with Ikea furniture probably turn into college students and adults who buy Ikea furniture, the Swedish manufacturer is going to start producing dollhouse-sized versions of its more iconic pieces, including the Lack table and the Expedit shelving. Read more...
When we hear IKEA, we think of horse meatballs, monkeys, and that hilarious Louie episode—but we don't normally associate the Swedish domesticity warehouse with romance. Not so for Shirley and Berkely Smith, who originally met at an IKEA in New Jersey over seven years ago. Show More Summary
Italian design firm can't quite follow the instructions.
IKEA tackles sustainability, vowing to double the amount of sustainable materials in their supply chain by 2020. Ethical Trading Institute’s Peter McAllister has declared the world in the middle of a supply chain safety paradigm shift. Show More Summary
BuzzFeed, being BuzzFeed, has compiled a hilarious roundup of the most spectacular Ikea failures, from slinking BILLY bookcases to unsittable chairs M.C. Escher would dream up. Looks like sometimes even video instructions are not enough for the Allen wrench-challenged—good thing...
Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Nestle and Sony are the five most meaningful brands of 2013, according to an index gauging brand strength released by Havas Media Group. Ikea, Dove, Nike, Walmart, Danone, Philips and P&G round out the top 10 on the Meaningful Brand Index, which uses consumer perception to compare and track the impact brands [...]
Healing Mother Earth is the last thing you think of when you ponder a cavernous, bustling Ikea store filled with shoppers hauling out flat-packed Faktums by the SUV load. Steve Howard is out to change that perception. He’s been Ikea’s chief sustainability officer for two years and gave a talk yesterday at TEDGlobal in Edinburgh to [...]
For once, IKEA is in the news for something other than a poop or horse meat scandal: Eight years ago, Shirley Stewart and Berkely “Rashid” Smith met in the framing department of a New Jersey IKEA. When Smith proposed earlier this year, the couple decided to tie the knot in the same store, in the same section. Read more...
The framing department in an IKEA store isn’t where one would typically go looking to find love, but that’s exactly what happened for one Newark, N.J., couple eight years ago. And on June 8, that’s exactly where they returned to tie the knot. Shirley and...
Meet the Camatte57s. It's Toyota's "sporty, open-top family-focused concept car" built for the upcoming Tokyo Toy Show. It's a bit like IKEA furniture: Weirdly named and frustrating to build. Read more...
If you want to see a home office that packs a lot into a little, look no further. Reader Shawn McBee modified an IKEA MICKE desk to fit into the corner of his room and added an articulating monitor arm so it worked for both standing and sitting positions. Read more...
Did you just meet your soulmate, your forever and ever partner on this journey we call life? Okay then stop — are you in a retail store? Mark the location because the trendy thing to do these days is to get married exactly where you met. Joining couples like the one that got married recently at Walmart, a twosome … [More]