QuantMech - thanks!!! I had a great laugh. Sent it to my Swedish buddies. 
@raclut That chair was my Dâs favorite. She managed squeeze one in her tiny new apt.
When our kids were around kindergarten age, we used to take an IKEA kiddie indoor play tent with us on vacation and pop it open for them in our hotel room. The kids loved sleeping in it, and it gave the adults semi-privacy.
We once stayed in a luxury hotel where the housekeeper would crawl inside their tent everyday and make up their bedding. That was awesome!
Our tent was used to hide all the toys when we had guests. It sat in our empty living room that became a play area till it was furnished. We would take it with us on picnics at the parks to keep the kids in the shade when they wanted to rest.
It is fun to visit during Christmas when they have all their holiday décor up. We have tree ornaments from there that we use on our holiday tree.
We always come home with chocolate bars and those rolo type candies.
Love shopping the market place.
Speaking of the market place, I recently bought their frozen salmon for when I am too lazy to get to the store to get fresh fish. It was excellent.
Even Kanye West loves Ikea
Kudos for IKEA from us.
My daughter purchased: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50242997/#/20286742
The sofa comes with a ten-year warranty. She uses the pull-out section often and something happened - it no longer worked as it should. She had purchased it about 10 months previously - along with other IKEA furnishings over a one-month period - and hadnât kept receipts. She called IKEA who could have shrugged her off. Instead they told her to check her credit card for any of those past IKEA charges. If she could give them dates of purchases, they could look up the specifics and hopefully find the sofa receipt for her. She did - they found the specific receipt and replaced her sofa for free.
Letâs just say sheâs an IKEA fan girl or rather even more of one.
^^^ Thatâs a nice looking sofa bed! Great price for a starter apt/house/or extra room.
^^^ Daughter likes that she can store the bedding in it also. (See third image).
S has an IKEA sofa bed, which his cousin slept on for a month when she was doing a rotation in his city and we sleep on for a week at a time when we are visiting. Itâs quite comfortable and he stashes all the extra bedding in the storage section.
Good place to hide from zombies, too, and anyone else you might want to hide from.
Not thrilled with IKEA, and wouldnât shop there again.
D and I visited the store nearest our home to look around and make some selections for her new place, which is closer to several other IKEAS. Decided on what she wanted, and then arranged the purchases with a third-party service that purchases/picks up from one of the latter stores, delivers, and assembles the same day. On the day it was all supposed to happen, and D had taken time off from work to be at home, the service called to say that they had tried at both local IKEAS, but the chest of drawers she had selected had been recalled and wouldnât be available for three more months. This wasnât from the line of furniture that was recalled in its entirety and got all the publicity, but was one of many other items that were also recalled but whose identity was buried on a pdf you had to smart enough to look for on IKEAâs website. Neither the floor model in the store we visited nor the regular website page disclosed the recall or the delay for this piece.
Since none of the other IKEA chests fit her space requirements and storage needs, D had to scramble to find a reasonably priced alternative (in an area where she didnât know the furniture store options) that could be delivered on Labor Day weekend so she would have somewhere to put her clothes when she moved. It was a huge hassle during an otherwise very busy time, and she ended up spending a lot more than she had planned.
I think the way IKEA handled the entire falling furniture recall process was questionable. I donât know all the ins and outs, but it seems they were unwilling to comply with US safety requirements until forced to. Then failing to disclose that some items shown for sale would be unavailable for extended periods of time just added insult to injury. I have to assume IKEA just figured consumers would be forced to select another IKEA option when they found out their carefully planned room wasnât going to come together as hoped. I question the companyâs ethics.