Archive for January, 2010

Exchange student introduces herself (Gretna Breeze)

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Sweden is known world-wide for a few things – Ikea home décor store, Alfred Nobel’s Nobel Prize, H&M fashion store and Volvo and SAAB vehicles. That’s what Louise Gabrielsson explained to the Gretna Optimist Club meeting last Thursday. She is a high school foreign exchange student from Sweden staying with club member Suzy Jennings’s family during the school year.

IKEA seek court injunction on Mandate union - Ireland Online

Friday, January 29th, 2010
IKEA seek court injunction on Mandate union
Ireland Online
Swedish Furniture giant IKEA will today seek a High Court injunction to prevent Mandate trade union using their logo on union recruitment leaflets.
IKEA seeks court injunction Herald.ie

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IKEA gets a Texas-sized makeover (The Frisco Enterprise)

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Frisco’s IKEA store shares something in common with many of its customers: It’s getting a home makeover.

Lapicientos, pencil holder

Friday, January 29th, 2010

I love this one. It’s the first hack I’ve seen on the Ikea pencil. A pencil holder from pencils!
“We are 2creativo, a graphic and industrial design studio from Barcelona, Spain.
We have an old hack we made 6 years ago, as we had to visit Ikea several times. It all came because we started collecting lots [...]

Hydroponic gardening superstore opens tonight in East Oakland - San Francisco Chronicle (blog)

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Seattle Post Intelligencer
Hydroponic gardening superstore opens tonight in East Oakland
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
iGrow will feature IKEA-style displays showing how to cultivate plants indoors. While the store anticipates a lot of interest from medicinal cannabis
IGrow: Walmart of weed opens in Oakland San Francisco Chronicle
iGrow Oakland OPEN! LALATE (blog)
Massive pot equipment warehouse to open in Oakland KGO-TV

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IKEA gets a Texas-sized makeover - Star Community Newspapers

Thursday, January 28th, 2010
IKEA gets a Texas-sized makeover
Star Community Newspapers
Frisco’s IKEA store shares something in common with many of its customers: It’s getting a home makeover. The following are comments from the readers.

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IKEA posts warning of high chair recall on webpage - Examiner.com

Thursday, January 28th, 2010
IKEA posts warning of high chair recall on webpage
Examiner.com
IKEA is asking customers who have a LEOPARD children’s high chair to stop using the high chair immediately and bring the seat and frame back to the Returns

Rats chill at the Kullen

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Hot on the heels of our winning Hamster Haven is a Rat Palace! Check out this Rat enclosure from Yvonne.
“I bought my Ikea Kullen closet and turned it into a rat cage. Most standard cages are too small, rats like to run, climb and explore. I put in 4 levels and connected the bigger [...]

Besta toy storage

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Elena and Markus are total Ikea addicts who hacked this Besta storage for toys.

“We bought two Besta shelf units last spring and wanted to use them to store the kids’ toys in the living room.

Unfortunately you cannot have this unit with two drawers, because the drawers are a little less than half the height [...]

Exchange student introduces herself (Gretna Breeze)

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Sweden is known world-wide for a few things – Ikea home décor store, Alfred Nobel’s Nobel Prize, H&M fashion store and Volvo and SAAB vehicles. That’s what Louise Gabrielsson explained to the Gretna Optimist Club meeting last Thursday. She is a high school foreign exchange student from Sweden staying with club member Suzy Jennings’s family during the school year.