IKEA in a Nutshell

A while back in the recap video about Costco, possibly one of my favorite stores on planet Earth, when I went to check out the comments section between people sharing their Costco love stories and employees revealing secrets about the store , I kept seeing one thing. and on top of that you should make a video about Ikea do Ikea next Ikea next you should make Ikea next Ikea next Ikea in a

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when to go to Ikea please next Ikea Do you really think I give in so easily that I just read all your comments and just make a video because many of you asked for it.

I will do that. Yes, ah, Sweden, the land of fika ABBA PewDiePie and of course Ikea. Now Costco and Ikea aren't much different in the fact that they are both giant warehouses, but nothing is. It's more amazing than seeing that gigantic blue building with that bright yellow logo representing the Swedish colors. Swedish flags placed outside the building. In fact, I think they should take all the existing Swedish embassies and move them to Ikeas, founded on July 28, 1943 in Elmwood, Sweden. Okay, you'll have to leave me alone for my Swedish pronunciation throughout the video. I can already see my entire Swedish audience disappearing as I speak.

It was found in 1943 in Elm Hall, Sweden, by 17-year-old Ingvar Campground, and later the first IKEA store. Officially opened in 1958, Ikea now has 474 stores worldwide in 64 countries, so while 17-year-old Ingval was starting a Swedish retail empire, I was unemployed and killed at OverWatch. For any of you who don't know or have never had the chance to go, Ikea is a giant Furniture Wonderland and when I say giant boy, these things can get big, the largest Ikea in the world in Pasay City, Philippines has about impressive 65,000 square meters, which is actually the size of Sweden, in fact, they are so big in the second that Upon entering the store, there is a huge map of the entire building, as well as arrows along the floor, which You have to go through the store as if you were playing a strange Swedish version of Tower Defense with balloons and, although they have numerous security measures to ensure that you don't get lost in the frenetic field of furniture, it is a common fact that Ikea does not have a staff recruitment, no job interviews, they just wait for weak customers to get out of the way, get lost and consumed by the store, so walk to the Palace of primary colors, now you satisfy all your furniture needs.

Ikea predominantly works with a sort of showroom layout, so as you walk around the store you'll find these pre-made example rooms like the ones you can snag in your home. In The Sims you are free to wander around as you please, each filled with various pieces of furniture that you can purchase individually, which sounds harmless on the surface and is actually a good method, but when you walk through the rooms alone, especially if the store is somewhat empty, it's the most disturbing thing ever, the rooms are so detailed that you forget you're in Ikea for a second and get carried away with the illusion until you try to turn on a tap and no water or fake plastic food comes out from Ikea. on an Ikea plate sitting on top of an Ikea table that looks too edible for my taste I sometimes feel like I'm walking through someone's actual living room as if the spaces are so detailed and I feel lived in.

I'm convinced that one day I'll be I'll just walk through Ikea and find my own room on display or walk into a showroom and find a guy drinking a Stella while watching the premiere, then I'll leave and it turns out he wasn't there. Ikea and it was in a house in Greater Manchester, but hey, speaking of getting lost, I guess Ikea would be one of the best places to get lost. Basically, you're living in a 200-room house. It's important to know that too. Ikea has to be in the top three places to play hide and seek, not that I do that of course, because I'm a grown man, I play tag, instead it seems like everyone is drawn to an Ikea in some time in their lives to fill their home with Swedish craftsmanship it's fun to walk around and see the different furniture they have to offer oh that's cute oh that would look great here and it's something I do every time without even realizing it's a feat of human nature when you're in an Ikea, no matter how many times you walk past a couch, you either have to sit on it to test its comfort or so it doesn't look like you're playing some kind of weird game of musical chairs sitting around of each sofa.

On the floor of the store you do that weird, subtle thing where you lean to the side and push your hand toward them to test your ability to sit up. Why do I do this every time like I'm some kind of professional couch reviewer walking around with a clipboard pushing my hand on couches and it's even worse with beds they need to put chains around those bad boys because you can bet I lay down about each of them at any opportunity and rank them in a tier list of which is the best. then not buying any of them, it takes me about nine hours total to go through the store when I'm done violating all the products and how could I forget the names of the products?

An iconic part of the Ikea experience, ah, Swedish furniture names now. while to the untrained monolingual eye it may look like an employee jumping on a keyboard, but the names make sense, each product is a Swedish word related to that type of product, so the outdoor products are named after the islands Scandinavian. Rogues are named after cities in Sweden and Denmark, but for anyone who doesn't speak Swedish, the name can surely offer a range of emotions upon reading it for the first time. Ikea is the only store that can make common household products sound like Warriors vildeborg The Destroyer silvalon the mighty Azar blomster the gray quilt 150 by 210 centimeters for seven pounds and certain products have Swedish names, so you can have a shelf called Billy , the Billy bookshelf, you know?

Personally I think we should apply this system to all stores. I want to be able to walk. Go to my nearest department store and buy a stick called Derek or a lawn mower called Russell. Now most Ikea products are flat-packed, a system introduced at IKEA in the 1950s, so, simply put, you follow Ikea's instructions and build the product from scratch with parts. They give you a sort of Lego for adults, which seems easy in theory, but lose a screw and the whole thing is a loss. I am so bad at building flat Ikea furniture that I will make a mistake and just accept it. and I use the furniture anyway, so I'll have people come visit me and ask me why this table has three straight legs and one that's punched hard at the top and I just play with it like, oh, that's it design.

I said in the instructions that's Gareth's table, which is a great cover-up and all, but it doesn't fix it when you're alone and your flat pack mistakes start affecting your daily life. I'll be having dinner and I'll just slide onto the floor out of nowhere because I read the instructions wrong three months before and one leg is three inches smaller than all the others. Right now my house is so full of poorly constructed flat Ikea furniture that it looks like I'm trying to organize an abstract art exhibition with various strange sculptures. Now in life, there are often times when you have to make a decision about what career you want, the name of your firstborn, what color crop you want to wear each morning, and possibly the most important question.

Each individual must answer which Ikea stuffed animal they choose to have, forget about furniture, stuffed animals are by far the best range of Ikea products, there is of course the big boy in the jungle, the bear that was giving turns on Twitter to the point. where it was sold out on the Ikea website everywhere, you have a variety of options: the pig, the snake, the tiger, the panda, the wolf, the polar bear, the shark, but fear not, if you are having a hard time deciding, You can take this BuzzFeed quiz to decide which one is closely related. for you, well, I took the test, I answered every question, like choosing a favorite snack, how does that relate to the?

Anyway, my results were in blahaj, the shark, you're probably enjoying the outdoors, you're always on the go, I've spent the last week sitting in front of my PC writing a video about a Swedish furniture store and taking a quiz from BuzzFeed, regardless of whether BuzzFeed gave me my favorite Ikea stuffed animal, blah, tough, the shark, thanks BuzzFeed, so I headed over to the IKEA website and bought Jungle. scog, the monkey, come on, I had to do it, he's a damn monkey, nothing against the blah, tough, but look at him and if you want to take a break from all the furniture action, you have other Ikea attractions, like the restaurant with the iconic Ikea meatballs, scientifically proven that when each meatball consumed increases your Swedish heritage by one percent or these huge cinnamon bun posters that say this is not the actual size, as if people think Ikea secretly serves a giant cinnamon bun that they keep in the bag or somewhere that contains a soft spot in my heart small land now this place brings back memories of when I was a child, so in a

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, small land is basically some kind of area game that parents can leave their kids while they venture into the Ikea Maze now every time I come in. small land It felt like heaven rivers of plastic balls I felt trees to rest after a hard day doing absolutely nothing, the waves can explore it it was like an oasis, a resort.

I could have spent hours on a small land now, I admit after Googling it. As an adult, it didn't really live up to my memories, but I was convinced it was better than this, maybe I was wrapped up in nostalgia. Now, when you walk through Ikea, of course, you don't just pick up the furniture off the floor. showrooms and put them in your cart no matter what a couple thought, instead you know the small number and then when you finally reach the end of the store, you have even made your way through the jungle of the houseplant section, the Labyrinth of various furniture behind.

You, with your notebook of products scribbled with an Ikea pencil, are presented with the warehouse with very high metal shelves full of fortunes in flat packages, very costco; In fact, you simply find the products in the checkout aisle and stack them in your car. and finally I thought I would share some stories from Ikea Berg firstly, the IKEA monkey December 9, 2012 Darwin the monkey escapes from a closed box in a nearby truck, heads to the nearest Ikea and in his hairpin coat simply wanders or when New Jersey couple Shirley show and Berkeley Rashid Smith got married at their local Ikea, since that's where they met or the strange phenomena sweeping fashion, the trend of making Ikea themed clothing or even using the bags 99 P Brightly colored Ikea for building clothes, I actually did Visit Ikea while you're making this video and it's a great time if you've never been or haven't been recently.

I highly recommend it, walking through the showrooms interior design skills really inspires you to spruce up your own living space and a lot. What Ikea has to offer is very high quality stuff and the meatballs were very tasty, whatever you do, no matter how much you need it, never try to use a showroom bathroom and with all that, I said goodbye.