Sunday, January 21, 2007

And I thought I was an IKEA fan...

We're doing some remodeling, switching rooms "functions" around the house. And since we're are Swedish this of course involved checking the IKEA catalog. In Sweden each household get it's very own IKEA catalog every late summer. Here you have to order it, or pick it up at the store.

Anyway, after spending a serious amount of time swearing over the useless unit inches instead of centimeters (actually IKEA do publish all the measurements in cm online even on the US website thankfully...), I stumbled upon a whole new world when being online googeling for IKEA...

There is a serious amount of websites dedicated to the "hacking of" IKEA stuff and lovers of IKEA out there!

Like the IKEAHacker website. Or IKEAfans.com. Or PositiveFanatics - the unofficial IKEA web journal.

None of them seems too concern about the existence of Marabou chocolate in the Swedish Food store however....

But you can find some really cool "hacks"... And answer polls such as "what was the first thing you bought at IKEA?". (I have no idea what my answer to that would be, I must have been like newborn the first time I was at IKEA like almost all Swedes...).

2 comments:

Annika said...

Nu fick man lära sig ngt nytt. VERKLIGEN!!!
Dem där web-sidorna kan säkertkomma in "handy one of these days".
Hoppas allt IKEA-pyssel går bra hos er!!!

JaCal said...

Ja, en helt ny värld... ;-) Lite kul faktiskt! Vi håller mest på att skapa totalt kaos, IKEA har ännu så länge inte blivit inblandat (mer än att vi konsulterat katalogen ett antal gånger). Men nu kan man ju spana på dessa sajter och se vad man kan göra mer... ;-)