Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

Nikkster

Doozergirl wrote: »

The new Ikea catalogue is just out. That's free.

I swiped the one that was delivered here a couple of weeks ago. It is already well thumbed-through

Have a fab time bowling/ drinking instead of bowling!

CKhalvashi

Doozergirl wrote: »

The new Ikea catalogue is just out. That's free.

We're moving things around. Little bedroom is becoming office/dog bedroom. The room downstairs that was open plan and is no longer, is going to become a larger bedroom for my poor 6'3" cousin who has been sleeping in what looks like a cot for the last year. :rotfl:

Bowling tonight. I will be no good as I have a bad back but I will prop up the bar. This is more excitement than I can bear, two nights in a row!

Ikea quality does seem to have shot up in the last few years, to the point where I'm happy to use it in the office, without fear of it falling apart.

Your house really sounds lovely, Doozer!

CK

Doozergirl

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Ikea quality does seem to have shot up in the last few years, to the point where I'm happy to use it in the office, without fear of it falling apart.

Your house really sounds lovely, Doozer!

CK

Thank you, but you clearly haven't seen it!

I did get a new front door yesterday. That looks lovely. The frames need painting in though.

michaels

Nikkster wrote: »

I can't hold in my urge to buy things in preparation for having a house any longer.

Today I've bought:
Collins DIY manual as recommended on the NPT (£5 back on books from Amazon via TopCashBack - see Grabbits board)

Lets hope the house goes thru now...

But more importantly(;)) thanks for the Amazon TCB heads up....

Nikkster

michaels wrote: »

Lets hope the house goes thru now...

But more importantly(;)) thanks for the Amazon TCB heads up....

No problem

Its not like I've bought custom made curtains, and the carpet cleaner is being delivered to my parents' house (so it can always live in the garage if it isn't required imminently... hopefully it will get to see some action soon though)

zagubov

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'm not entirely sure why you're asking, but anticlockwise?!

I've always suspected that evrybody naturally goes anticlockwise. Used to go skating at uni and it struck me as odd, seeing as how I never see a rule posted anywhere about it. (Have been in rinks where they instruct you to change direction half way through to avoid scoring the ice too much. Everybody suddenly becomes really clumsy when they switch to clockwise).

I used to teach Scientific Method by getting studnets to suggest explanatory hypotheses such as it's to do with a dominant hand or foot, or even Chewey's tongue-in cheek suggestion of which hemisphere we're in. They can devise experiments to test them.

I suppose it's related to the way people lost in the desert wander in circles anticlockwise.

zagubov

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Ikea quality does seem to have shot up in the last few years, to the point where I'm happy to use it in the office, without fear of it falling apart.

Your house really sounds lovely, Doozer!

CK

I'm looking around our front room and there isn't single item in it that isn't from IKEA!

Yorkie1

Our entire church parish centre was furnished from there about 6 years ago,

I spent may happy hours putting things together (I rather enjoy Ikea flatpacks!).

PasturesNew

In about 1991 I bought some Ikea furniture. So exciting!!

I got two sofas and three sets of drawers. I got rid of all of them in 2007 and they were as good and new looking, fully functioning and perfect as the day I bought them. The drawers cost £35 - £65 a set and the sofas were £295 each I think. Loved them. I'd have kept them if I'd been just moving to another house. They'd have lasted at least another 20-30 years.

I always look after everything, being careful around/with everything I own as I buy things expecting/needing them to last for life even though they're 'cheap'.

Oh - I also got a brilliant corner desk for the PC in about 2000. It was fab. It was a corner cabinet, top half dropped down to create a typing desk and as that dropped down the two cupboard doors below opened to support it. That was cheap too (about £60 at the time), although they don't seem to make it any more. Had to sell that too in 2007.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

In about 1991 I bought some Ikea furniture. So exciting!!

I got two sofas and three sets of drawers. I got rid of all of them in 2007 and they were as good and new looking, fully functioning and perfect as the day I bought them. The drawers cost £35 - £65 a set and the sofas were £295 each I think. Loved them. I'd have kept them if I'd been just moving to another house. They'd have lasted at least another 20-30 years.

I always look after everything, being careful around/with everything I own as I buy things expecting/needing them to last for life even though they're 'cheap'.

Oh - I also got a brilliant corner desk for the PC in about 2000. It was fab. It was a corner cabinet, top half dropped down to create a typing desk and as that dropped down the two cupboard doors below opened to support it. That was cheap too (about £60 at the time), although they don't seem to make it any more. Had to sell that too in 2007.

When we got our first place in the early 90s, we drove up the North Circular to the only IKEA branch in London, at Wembley. Now there's another closer one in Croydon. Can't figure how we'd have furnished our place without them. Last time we were driving through Belgium on a motorways we found the service areas were too far apart so we pulled in to a IKEA just outside Brussels on the grounds that we could see it clearly from miles away and finding it would be a piece of cake. Plus the food was self-service so didin't have to worry about which language they spoke.