I ♥ IKEA

I have always liked/loved IKEA. The moment I discovered it in Taipei, I came to love home furnitures and accessories. I also frequent another home furnishing store there called HOLA. Taiwan had a lot of shops like that. I just cannot remember much of it, though Good Housekeeping somehow rings a bell.

Anyways, being in IKEA got me started with home furnishings. But sad to say, B doesn't really like IKEA. We have never purchased anything big there, just small things like kitchen or bedroom knick knacks. He said furnitures there are good but not that much on quality.

When we moved to Dubai, IKEA was there too! It had been in Deira City Center for years before they moved to a bigger and nicer place which is at Festival City.

I love IKEA's unique and innovative ideas in setting up a home. They make the best out of a cramped space and turn it into a useful one. They have samples of small bedrooms or lounge rooms plus kitchen. So if you are living in a condo with not that much of a space, you can get different concepts from IKEA. Most of their stuff are in a kit for a do-it-yourself thing. They have good kitchen designs that will fit whatever size your house have.

I knew that there is an IKEA here in Brisbane but we just never got around to finding it. Last Sunday, we were looking for Home Centres to get some ornaments. We drove to Logan and found IKEA! I was so excited! But the place was packed! There was like a procession going on because the people were walking so slow, obviously because everyone is checking on what the store have. The Husband said that going there on a weekend was a bad idea. You can't have a good look because of the crowd. So we went back yesterday. There was still a bit of a crowd but not as bad like last time. But B and I were disappointed that IKEA here in Brisbane doesn't have much to offer. We were looking for things to fill the little boy's bedroom but what they have were more of baby stuff. Oh well.

I got my iPhone to take photos because it's kinda embarrassing whipping my camera out. I got the following pics as discreetly as I can. It isn't that good but you can somehow see what the place is about. B stopped me in the middle of my session. Bugger!

So here they are . . .







These are IKEA's good set-up for a kiddie bedroom . . .





Gorgeously . . .