I don't know about IKEA... The one I visited in Frisco had a lot of interesting stuff, but it looked mostly like it was cheaply made for college dorms and the like. Very little looked built to last.

The Swedish Meatballs are awesome though.

I do have one of their angle desks. I have a relatively small room to use as workspace so it's great!

And I did put the saved money into better computer, screen space and seating

The pictue I displayed below, is a spacious high quality metal and glass desk with a book case that has 5 shelves in the same style, I got it for about $250, two years ago at either office depot or office max, I am not sure which though.

My -office- area isn't IKEA, but god-knows-what-else-is.

Thank you for shopping Swedish. Ingvar (Mein)Kamp(f)rad and family thanks you.

Next thing you'll know, he'll be eating Swedish...

Funny that. You often hear people say let's go for a Chinese takeaway, or have an English breakfast, or Indian, or eat Italian - you never hear anyone say let's eat Swedish...

Much the same as Canadian really...

I think its because Swedish food is practical food and not to exciting.. being we have a long winter here.

I mostly do italian food myself and some mexican, spanish, american style pancakes/burgers.

Sounds a real Smörgåsbord...

I would say it's because it's mostly the same as the food you get anywhere else in the western countries. There is "some" local food, like herring and tuna we probably eat more than others. And there's the falukorv and the swedish meatballs of course.

Problem with IKEA though is they have few exits - forced to go through the entire store to get to the exit.

I hate large pharmacies that do that too - put pharmaceuticals at the back along the back wall then arrange all displays like food, booze, candy etc on the diagonal to force you to walk through the entire range of crap then lose your bearings.

Thats what every store wants, they want you buy a lot of things that you don't need, these are good examples, basicly we need to ignore our impulses on buy unneeded stuff.

I bought that same setup for my son you have pictured ID, It's holding up well after a year and a half, some minor surface wear on the corner edges, but nothing that a sharpie can't fix!

Which picture are you refrencing to?

We've furnished one room in our house and one apartment with entirely IKEA stuff and have loved all the items except one - a Lillberg wood-frame sofa: the cushions turned out to be terribly uncomfortable to sit in, very 'lumpy.'  We ended up donating that to Goodwill.  Other than that, we've not been disappointed with anything we've purchased there and the prices are generally very good.

I haven't been to the Ikea at Millenia yet but my friends swear by it!  So far they have been happy with their purchases and always find bargains!

Ikea's marketing is brilliant.  Their funiture is satisfactory.  We have a number of pieces and have determined tha tthey all tend to fall apart after ten years.  Rather interesting really.