Download the IKEA Catalog

The folks at ebook-portal have a late xmas pressie for you. The 2007 IKEA catalog as a download.

I don’t know how and I really don’t care why they went to the trouble, but for a commodity (and yes it is one) with such a short availability span – god bless’em! It’s about time.

IKEA has the catalog as a online flip-through piece of Flash, but not a solid download. It’s a 32MB PDF so it’s understandable IKEA doesn’t want to cripple it’s servers for god knows how long to make it downloadable knowing the rabidness of their “Tokigs”. It could bring down western civilization as we know it.

You can get yours here, at the download link, after scrolling past the big annoying block of ads… and clicking the tiny little link all the way under the HUGE ad that you’ll get on the next page that is almost hidden against the bottom browser status bar. (Here is a direct link to the download page, if it works.)

The catalog looks nice though! (Even if the prices are in British Pound Sterling.)

IKEA folks – I need a assist.

Cafepress is giving me seven kinds of grief over trying to sell items with the OHIKEA logo. Sure it looks liek IKEA’s but it’s not it. In fact I’ve even split up the word into OHI KEA with a Ohio flag over the split… (you’ll see it updated here soon) They red flag stuff almost as soon as I’ve uploaded it.

Strangly the same exact logos for shirts are not being flagged, but they keep nixing them for mugs and non-wearables. It’s way funked up.

Anyway is there anyone reading this from IKEA that has the power to send a letter to tell the cafepress goons to lay off and let me have my fun? I barely sell any, so it’s not like I’m making money, but for those few who want one I want them to have one. I figure if IKEA objected to the logo homage I would have gotten a C&D two years ago…

Shoot me a email if you can help… free shirt in it for ya!

More on the Winter Sale

I will be at IKEA Canton (MI) on Dec 30 or 31, is anyone else going to swoop in on the Winter Sale and want to meet up for a plate of meatballs? I wasn’t wanting to go on the weekend, but as I just got a new job going during the week is kinda tough now.

Speaking of IKEA’s Winter Sale – An IKEA employee wrote with some additional info”

Another tip (from an employee of IKEA also) is to look for yellow banners. These banners with red writing will be the items with the highest markdowns. This year you may find items that may be discontinued, but may show up again. Without a doubt if you see it during sale, buy it.

If it shows up again it’s just because it’s still in stock, I would gather, but once they run out it’s gone never to return.

Info on the IKEA Winter Sale:

I knew this, but figured many might not so here’s a letter from a IKEA employee who likes to read OHIKEA:

I wasn’t sure if the many people who will be flocking to IKEA for the Winter Sale are aware of this, so I thought I’d share. All of the items on sale are being discontinued. We do this twice a year to make room for new merchandise. If you see something you like on sale, do not wait to buy it. It will not be returning and there’s usually not much left of these items.

The exception would be anything in a high-profile area with lots of signage in each department. We call these opening offers or shop windows. If we are really highlighting it we have tons to get rid of. In this case it may pay to wait as we will reduce the price again (and again) to clear this merchandise out. In some cases we have gone from a product that retails at $20 and reduced it to 50 cents!!! There is absolutely nothing wrong with any of the discontinued items. The “thinker-elves” at IKEA of Sweden just come up with waaay too many nifty product ideas and we need to make room for them.

So there you go. Everything on the Winter Sale is really on closeout.

I learned this a couple years ago. My Jerker desk – that I got half off – was redesigned after the sale and came in other colors and my Ottenby dressers are no longer are sold at all… the only thing I’d keep in mind is if you are buying something to be part of a set (like a bookcase wall, or matching bedroom set) and are buying in batches is to make sure that the other pieces of the line will still be around, and in the color you want, later. If something not matching will annoy you get the charge card and just buy it all at once while you’re there.

I’ve seen more than few cases where a particular color of a line was being eliminated and one where the color was being redone (a new birch color).

But bargains galore are to be had end of this month! Don’t miss out! It all starts Dec 26 and usually runs for 2 weeks. Earlier you go, the better deals you’ll find. It’s why we have made IKEA a part of our Holiday travels, and pretty much why I look forward to christmas!

Keep up to date

As well as being able to subscribe to OHIKEA via email and have posts sent right to your inbox, now I can offer a different way to keep connected if you are a AIM junky like me. (This only works for AIM users right now… sorry MSN’ers)

Wanna be a French Tv sensation?

I have been talking to this reporter from French TV and she’s looking for IKEA freaks. She and a cameraman will be flying to the US for some of these stories nd are looking for ANYONE who is a huge IKEA fan with a house full of flatpacked furniture and other stuff. They’ll want to shoot you and the house and all that fun stuff so be prepare to show off… please contact her! You don’t have to be from Ohio! If not you but you know of someone, please write her! Her email is at the end.

I’m a french journalist working on a tv broadcast witch reports mainly on business issues and is broadcasted on TF1 which is a most important french channel. I’m working on Ikea, and I need to get in touch with Ikea’s big fans! So if your home is decorated by plenty of Ikeas’furnitures, if you have all the catalogs since a very long time, if you love to go to Ikeas’ stores when visiting other countries answer me back, I should have my report made by the end of november, so it’s getting quite short on time,

Kindest regards,

Mrs Maëlle Joulin
Journaliste
“Combien ça coûte” TF1
email: joulin@coyote.fr

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Reader Photos: Carolyn’s House

Our next Ohio Ikea house comes from Carolyn Tavolier:

I LOVE Ikea!! I’m an interior design grad, and I GET IT!!! Functional yet asethically pleasing. Well-made. What can I say? I am not afraid of an little old allen wrench. I put together everything you see in the pictures. I try to convert every person I meet.

Carolyn Tavolier

If you’d like to share your IKEA home’s pictures just add them to the IKEA West Chest Flickr pool or email them to me and I’ll add them, and your story, here!

OHIKEA reader photo

Our first reader photo is from Patrick Higgins who sends this lovely shot from around Greene County:

“Here’s a picture looking from my library (all classic Billy’s in birch) into my office (all Effektiv units and not completed yet!).”

Very nice! I Love the Effektiv line too!

If you want to share your IKEA house, just shoot me an email with your pics or join the IKEA West Chester group on flickr.com

While we wait…

Show me your IKEA stuff!

Please post your pictures of what you want to replace with IKEA stuff, or of your current ikea stuff, either to me or to the OHIKEA photo group on Flickr, and I’ll also show them here!

I’ll start! Here’s my Livingroom!

And you can’t see it but I have a big Ektorp sofa and chair (red), the lamborn coffetable that they just stopped making (boo!), an Ottenby side table, and another leather IKEA recliner that they dont make anymore and I can’t remember the name of anwyay… so yeah, my entire livingroom except for a couple lamps and a magazine rack.

And that’s just the livingroom.

What do you got?

For the Email subscribers

An apology for the rehash. You can probably just delete this from your inbox.

In an effort to better organize posts and correctly archive the “saga” I have been doing some re-assigning or cross assigning of categories. As a result the service that sends the feed emails might send you a bunch of old posts again. Every edit I make seems to cause it to resend posts, thinking threy are new. I don’t know how to fix that, sorry. I am thought going to try to do this all in one day so it shoudl only effect ONE digest. I’m also going to try to change the email settings for today only to try to help this from being a BIG digest of old crap.

So, you’ve seen all the junk in this digest before. Move along little doggies.