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IKEA is the stuff you have in college thinking it's the greatest stuff around. It's cheap and modern.
Then you near graduation and realize why it's so cheap. Because it's made of JUNK. Lots of compressed wood and lots of plastic type screws.
But for a college student it's perfect. If you don't mind looking like every other dorm room. Just don't try to decorate your place with their stuff post graduation.
So why 3 stars?
Their food! Yes Ikea's food is actually better than their furniture IMO.
Their meatballs are delicious, cinnamon rolls too, but the best is their berry soda!
Wow! Ikea has become even cheaper than it was before. Not inexpensive, but cheap. The quality is about the same, if not a little worse and the dimensions of items has...shrunk. Also, they're raising their prices higher than what they were before they started "lowering" them a year or so ago.
I'll illustrate. I have a couple of hanging lamps, hung with a cord similar to one you might hang with a lantern. The one I got today was roughly three feet shorter. Another example? Their table runners are cheap, but work as a nice alternative to a glass top for my wicker coffee table. I bought one a couple of years ago, and it fit my table's width perfectly. I just had to tuck the ends underneath, which as I washed it occasionally shrank to almost fit the table perfectly. No worries, because it shrunk the right way. The one I got today is four inches narrower, and was a dollar more. (Boo.)
I never bother going upstairs. Really, the furniture is mostly crap. Bookshelves tend to be fine, but I wouldn't recommend buying an item that you will use everyday. It will break. Also, my bookshelves (Billy, because records fit perfectly) are great, but are just as sturdy as when my mom and I put them together. And the walls are made of particle board. Looking at it, you wouldn't be able to tell, but the walls are hollow. As someone who owns antiques, this cheapness irks me. Still, they look nice. (I just wouldn't recommend moving them...ever.)
I really could go on about the cheap quality, and the "Swedish" theme. Just because something is designed simply and is affordable, doesn't mean it needs to have a life expectancy of ten minutes. Oh, and the fabric (which has gone up in price by two dollars per yard in the past two years!), is NOT completely colorfast.
After all the bad, I'll leave with three positives:
*Great place to get paper napkins of all colors (albeit completely contradictory for a company that just went proverbially "green"). 100 for $2.
*They have electric cords for lamps that are different colors. Turquoise, Red, Black, Lime.
*They have the best fifty cent hot dogs and Ligonberry fountain drink.
I've been to IKEA once before and I just ate at the cafe while my mom shopped. I decided to make a trip out with my girlfriend to IKEA because I thought I would love shopping for cool gadgets and checking out furniture I would need. Boy was I wrong. Instead, I was stuck going from section to endless section looking at totally useless and cheap stuff that was arbitrarily priced. It was crazy. I can't believe that this place exists and is successful. It is just a giant warehouse of wholesale items. I plan on running the Marathon in January but after 3 hours in IKEA, I felt like my legs were done for the year.
On a side note, I do like their cafe and the Swedish meatballs. A nice, cheap meal that reminds of high school cafeteria food. Good times.
How I love the Swedes!!
How I love the practicality of their furniture, the design, and the price! I have been a fan of the Ikea in Houston ever since I was a wee tot. Back then their furniture was solid and very durable. Now they have lowered their standards to plastic cabinets, thin wood, and very dorm-like items. Obviously it all needs to be available but what a change!!
Going to Ikea is always an adventure. The store is designed so wisely. Because of the maze of cheap items such as picture frames or candle holders, every customer is bound to purchase SOMETHING. No recession problems for Ikea! One thing I will always love about the store is the wide selections of colorful and practical bedspreads. The best!
To tie my favorite thing in the world into this review I have to mention the cafe. Some people think it's hilarious to go to Ikea for breakfast but I think it's incredibly serious. 99 cents!!! For a perfectly portioned meal of bacon, eggs, and potatoes! Coffee with unlimited refills is 99cents as well. The meal is served on regular ceramic plates and coffee is in a regular-sized mug. I say this because it reminds me of being at home or in Europe and drinking/ eating off of a normal sized plate not enormously American.
Their lunch/dinner menu is okay and definitely not worth $6. Their 50cent hotdogs are a college student's dream though...
Ive been a big fan of IKEA for many many years now, dating back to my college days at the dorms. My old boyfriend and I would wait anxiously for our IKEA catalog to arrive with the new inventory, so that we could circle all the items we wanted to put on our wish lists. I know, sounds pretty lame, right! Im sure we've all done worst things!!
I love this store, and over the past 7 years, Ive decorated EVER apartment with IKEA furniture. Where else can you buy inexpensive, sturdy, stylish and trendy pieces and not break the bank??
I love that their furniture is really easy to assemble on your own, I always look forward to putting the stuff together.
The store is HUGE!!! This places is a mecca, its so big, people probably come from all over town just to visit at least once in their lifetime.
For me, I love to come to IKEA on a lazy sunday afternoon, especially this summer on a super hot day. You know the kind of day, you dont really have alot of money, you're super bored and just want to get out of the house for a few hours? Well I spent a alot of time in IKEA.
This is a great place to bring your kids, they have a free kids play area, very secure. You have to sign them in and they remain in a closed off area with care attendents looking over them as they play & watch movies, while you shop. I believe they allow 1 hour per visit to the store for the kids to play. They give you this nifty device that lights up when its time to pick your kid up, you know the buzzer they give you at all those chain restaurants.
Well Cam loves to come there, he gets to play, I get to roam around the store for an hour and pick out stuff I really didnt need, but just had to get. As much as I visit this store, I always find things I didnt see the last time I visited. And the prices are ridiculously cheap.
The thing I love most about this place, they serve food! If you go upstairs they have a big cafe, where they serve various dishes like Swedish meatballs, and a variety of foods from the region.
Down stairs they have a 50 cent hot dog stand, really cheap, you can get 2 hotdogs, chips and a drink for less than $2. They have nonfat yogurt, cinnamon rolls, and a small grocery shop that sells Swedish foods ready to be taken home. This places is like a one stop Swedish shop, you come in to buy 1 thing, and you can pretty much furnish your entire home, get free child care, get lunch, and take food home to prepare dinner. Super cool!
One of the downfalls and my only complaint is that its always crazy in the parking lot, but I always just park in the back and dont mind walking. I could use the excercise. But once you are inside the store, its pretty easy to bypass the crowds.
And I highly suggest that you DO NOT bring the big shopping carts upstairs in the showrooms, its just taking up space!
I don't care for the place. It's all miniature, cheap quality furniture without any flavor in my opinion.
The times, they are a'changin... There was a time in my life, that I LOVED Ikea. It was hip, cool, fresh, and most importantly, INEXPENSIVE.. I could find the coolest of the cool furniture items for my place all the time.
However, I started noticing that I was replacing the items more and more frequently. Also, I started noticing that the styling was less and less..masculine for lack of a better word. They were starting to go in a weird direction with some of their items. Maybe I'm just getting old lol.
Ikea is not known for it's quality. In fact, it'll probably take you longer to put the item together, than it'll last lol.. It's just not durable stuff. It's made to look good, and last maybe a year or 2 at best in my opinion. I do like the meatballs in the cafeteria, that's a good touch.
The prices are creeping up slowly. Could be the bad economy or whatever, but it's not the bargain basement it once was..
And last, speaking of the "bargain basement"... There's a lot of stuff downstairs that you may think you need, but you really don't. The cool blue scale and weird little vase, becomes junk a year from now lol. Those paper lamps that you thought were so cool last year, look kinda silly now.. It's sad really.
Here's the thing about IKEA... you get what you pay for.
I love the trendiness of the furniture and the overall ideas on how to furnish your home. The prices are cheap so this is a good place to go if you're a college student or on a tight budget.
A few things I dislike is this place is ALWAYS crowded - the parking lot, the showroom, the warehouse, the cafe and the lines are insane. You're guaranteed to spend at least two hours being herded through the showroom maze and waiting to check out.
A cool thing about IKEA is if you're a DIYer, almost everything in sight can be transformed into something more personal. I love buying the photo frames, decorating them and giving them away as gifts.
Even if you don't buy anything, you're sure to walk out with a few good ideas to spruce up your home.
IKEA's a tough one to rate: it's a crazy big warehouse full of do-it-yourself furniture, chotchkies, and stuff that probably won't last you more than a year quality-wise. This makes it fabulous for those of us who can't quite afford to blow money on Mattress Mac quality furnishings just yet!
If you think you'll go in here and walk out empty-handed, you would be wrong! You'll find something you need (or don't need but have to purchase) without a doubt.
The best advice I can give is go during off hours. Weekdays during the day are best because the crowds are much smaller and you can navigate it a lot easier.
Also, if you buy something big, make sure you can fit it in your car. I made that mistake once and drove all the way across town with a ginormous box strapped precariously to the top of my 2 door coupe.
Ikea, oh how I loathe thee. From the second I walk in and see the children's play pin, I want to turn around and run out the door to freedom. More often than not I leave here empty handed, because I usually have to really like something, or really need something, to justify buying it. And I usually find myself not liking ANYTHING at Ikea.
Now don't get me wrong, just about everyone has got to own at least one thing from Ikea (including me) and sometimes Ikea can have some cool things at some decent prices. But its definitely not all the time.
I do think Ikea is good for small simple things such as book cases, certain tables, etc. The boy even found a decent bed there. And for those who don't have a endless budget for furniture, Ikea is a great alternative. Just be warned that the quality can be cheap, and it doesn't really help that YOU are the one putting it together, which probably adds to the instability of the finished product.
I find the long walk of showrooms and furniture to be the worst part. It's like crap after crap after crap. Why do I have to see all this sh*t? And I really despise the food court, I don't want to smell that food when I'm walking through Ikea.
Ah well, It is... what it is.
IKEA Houston is two stories. As you enter the glass doors, you ride up the escalator or take the elevator up the second story, walk around a guided path with model rooms around the house, spot the products you like, write down your shopping list for self-serve furniture you pick up in the warehouse area of the first floor, descend to the first floor, walk around another guided path with kitchen-related items, and head to the checkout lanes.
You can also pick up a big plastic IKEA shopping bag at various places around the store including the entrance to fill up with smaller purchases. At the end of the second-floor guided path, there is a neat cafeteria with supercheap to fair prices. I look forward to eating in their cafeteria someday.
Walking around the store was a slow process because there were many other shoppers. I have no fear of small spaces but I felt a little claustrophobic in the store on a Saturday afternoon.
Two stars were deducted for less-than-ideal restrooms and furniture quality for price. Much of the furniture seemed overpriced. The stuffed animals, though huge, were also somewhat expensive. I can't imagine the poor parents who are forced to buy their kids $20 half-pillow-sized stuffed animals. They have very cheap glassware.
I was pleased how quickly the lines at the checkout lanes moved. The store employees were helpful, abundant, and easily-recognizable. I also enjoyed seeing the beautiful model rooms and was impressed they used real flat-screen TVs in them.
One thing I'd do on my second trip here would be to wander around the warehouse area of the first floor first to marvel at how compactly the furniture and other products are packaged. I have a small car so it would be useful to check if the items could fit in it.
IKEA Houston is at the Northeast corner of I-10 (Katy Freeway) @ Antoine. You can access it by turning into the vast parking lot at the traffic light on Antoine. Parking was easy; there were lots of SUVs and minivans in the parking lot.
I'm redecorating my office so I made the obligatory trip to Ikea this weekend to see what they have on the cheap. This was my first time in the Houston Ikea but it's very much like the others I've visited only a bit more crowded and perhaps somehow bigger with more model rooms and kitchens. Like other Ikea's the people that shop these stores seem to want to walk very slow in front of you. They also somehow manage to walk side by side in groups so you can't find a way around them and so you also have to walk at their snails pace. This is all very annoying.
I found a couple of lights, bulbs, curtains (you can actually take multiples home to try them out and then return the one you don't like as long as you have the packaging -- though I guess that does mean a trip back to Ikea), a vase, a candle, and an end table. Not bad for $120. The unbelievable (in a bad way) thing was at the register, after the guy had scanned all my merchandise he tells me I have to buy a bag to carry my loot out to the car. I have to BUY a bag??? What the f*#&$k? Luckily I have a big purse and mad skillz in the stacking and carrying without a bag department (also, it wasn't that much stuff). Otherwise there would have a throw down if they'd 'ave CHARGED me for a bag. Minus one star for the sheer ridiculousness.
I read somewhere that a friend is someone that helps you move, a good friend is someone who will pick you up at the airport, and a best friend is someone who will carry your passed-out drunk ass home after a night of excess. I think accompanying a friend for an afternoon of furniture shopping at IKEA is probably a pretty good friend.
I dislike this store, from the layout, to the merchandise. You are in line for the entire time you are in the store. It must be so you examine the entire store, before deciding on a purchase. Uggh. Its like a circuitous Guggenheim of minimalistic an mis-proportioned furniture that must have been inspired by the futon.
But museums tend to frown upon children slaloming between people, and tots throwing tantrums.
My friend is a IKEA lover, so he knew all of this, and probably had a good understanding of the durability issues mentioned in the reviews here. But hey, your friend needs help, I'm there; he drags me all over that post-modern labyrinth then he's buying later.
Cheap.
Functional.
Trendy.
However I question the quality and durability. But if you live in a small apartment on a budget it works. I'm not reviewing Ikea products though. Ikea will be forever classified in my dictionary under "you get what you pay for."
I have a slight problem with the whole "do it yourself" concept. I don't mind putting the furniture together. I don't mind bagging all my goods myself... In fact I like this feature. It bothers me when sackers at grocery stores puts shampoo and bananas in the same bag.
I just bought I cute 6 drawer dresser. Cheap, functional, trendy, and pretty damn heavy. It came in 2 boxes. Both equally heavy. No one helped me load it into my cart and no one helped me load it into my car. But there were plenty of employees who looked like they were able to pick up and carry these heavy boxes standing around and chatting. I'm fairly independent and I'm the last to admit that I can't do something. Well, I raise the white flag on these 2 boxes. I'm not a teeny tiny helpless woman but I'm not a pumped up and ripped body builder either.
Right now, my back hurts and I have a large bruise on my bicep hauling these boxes into my car and into my apartment.
Thanks Ikea.
IKEA is one of those place that you either love or hate, there is no in-between. Me personally, I really can't stand it, but I seem to end up going there once a year to browse like a moth to the flame. I always see lots of stuff I like but the quality and durability of their products keeps me from pulling the trigger. I always come out with some small junk. My brother-in-law loves this place and buys lots of their furniture. He likes trendy stuff and changes it frequently.
IKEA is best for college students, people on a budget, or those who have trendy taste. My best advice is to go during the week, preferably during the day. The weekends are horrendous and unbearable.
Dear Mr Ikea, You seem very overrated.
A few days ago was my first ever trip to Ikea. I have always heard good things about these stores but was disappointed.
First off the showroom maze is stupid. Unless I was buying all my furniture at Ikea then it would make sense, but I was just looking for a quick cheap desk and had to wander through rooms and sections before finding them.
Also I though Ikea was suppose to be cheap but looking over what the items were and the prices, I didn't think they were good deals.
I will say the first floor marketplace was pretty cool and I did buy a bunch of crap that I didn't really need but thought were cool and fun. Just don't buy those rubber ice cube trays that make fun shapes. I bought the jigsaw puzzle one but it doesn't work well.
The crowds can make the whole shopping experience a problem. Too many people, everyone with a shopping kart and kids running all over the place. It also took forever to check out.
The two best things I will say is they have cheap cactus for sale and, not sure if it is all the shopping karts of I just got a magic one, but the thing moved like it was gliding on air. It was fantastic.
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Ikea. Ikea. Ikea. How much I hate thee , let me count the ways.I recently got a gift card from there so I went to check out the store.I felt like a hamster in a big loop.Ikea has the worst quality furniture , its fine if you are a student and want to save up otherwise their funiture is garbage and has no re-sale value. On top of that you have to assemble everything once you get it. Its like buying a Kinder Surprise Egg , if you know what that is.
Oh and hold on when you are done you can't take your cart to your car , you have to walk another mile bring your car to the front and load everything in. I been to ikea in other parts of the world and its not such a torture as the Ikea here.
After hearing about IKEA for years (my friends used to drive to Houston just to furnish their apartment), I finally made the plunge and checked it out. Wow. When we pulled into the parking lot, I knew it was going to be huge, but I was not prepared for what was inside. It was a warehouse of modern furniture (think Costco, but with mini-boutique looking areas).
My husband is a kitchen nerd. He loves knives. We have so many knives that we don't use, but each has a special purpose. He also has a love for cutting boards. Why you ask? Well, I'll let you know when I figure it out. Regardless of what he's in the mood for, we'll go straight to the kitchen area and look at all their things. The layouts are a great way to get a feel for the kitchen and we like to pretend that we'll one day own a house, much less be able to redecorate it with all the fancy things lying around. For me, the best part of the kitchen area is the faucet collection. How fun is it when you can spruce up something you use on a daily basis?!
We usually head over to the office section and check out the desks. We already have two in our apartment, but why not just check them out? Who knows when you'll need a third. They have all types, including my husband's favorite--the architect's table. They have matching chairs, waste baskets, shelves, the whole nine yards to completely revamp your office.
We usually hit up the bedroom section next. I like looking at all the night stands and storage areas. Mirrors, tables, and lamps are everywhere for you to look at. They have multiple rooms set up for you to look at and get the whole effect. Big plus for non-imaginative people like me.
About here is when we get so tired that we don't make it to the rest of the store. It can take hours and hours to get through everything, so I suggest that you take advantage of those maps they have and start marking things off. Plus, since they have their oh-so-cool label system, you just write down the item number and at the end collect your goodies. Course the only problem is actually getting out without putting a billion sale items in your cart as you're walking out the door (yes, we ended up with a tv dinner tray/stand thingy that we did not need).
The staff is pretty helpful if you need anything, though it is so user friendly that you can probably manage on your own for everything. There's a lot to see, so I recommend going with a list in mind of what you want to see or you'll waste an entire afternoon with only a hotdog and a tv dinner tray/stand thingy as proof of going there.
Nice furniture on the cheap. Yeah, baby! I love their modern options-- stylish and functional, although it all decidedly has that "Ikea look." Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just that everyone will know upon entering your house that you got your stuff from Ikea. How do they know? Because they have the same thing in their living room, bedroom, kitchen, etc. Upside? They love your sense of design because it's exactly the same as they picked out and they can't judge you for being cheap when it comes to home decor.
And now the serious flaw of Ikea: It is Disneyland for furniture. Small children that obviously have not napped/ eaten/ been told "no" in quite some time. They run wild and their parents sort of treat it like a park-- keep them in eyesight and let them do whatever they want. And then there is the ambling Sunday stroll that families take down the weaving aisles. I realize they think they are taking in the sights of a fine museum and have no where better to be, but they could at least not take up the *entire* walkway. I have plan whenever I go to Ikea-- get in, get the stuff, and get out. Too much extra time spent and I will leave with a headache. Now if I could just avoid being distracted from my plan by all the pretty lighting/ candle holders/ neat dishes/ etc...
So I'm not going to review the quality of IKEA's furniture, or the layout of the store, or the fact that they're crowded, etc. etc. Those things are pretty self evident at this point. Instead, what I have noticed during my past few visits is that the quality of service and caliber of the employees has gone way down. The problem is obviously a management issue because the demand for IKEA has outgrown what one store can provide for the large city of Houston.The company needs to build another location in the Clear Lake area or somewhere on the South side.
But back to the issue of quality of staff and service. First, I have noticed that the very necessary parts lists with much needed bin numbers are often missing from many of the display set-ups. And none of the staff members seem at all concerned with replacing them. Case in point: My boyfriend was purchasing a bookcase unit from the Effectiv system. They only had Spanish versions of the item lists and nobody around to provide more. But I thought, ok, the signs downstairs where the items are located will also have Spanish so we can just match it up--nope, only English on the signs. Now, this would also be a problem for Spanish-only-speaking customers as they would not be able to match things up either. So next I thought, ok, let's go ask one of these guys at the computer station if they can print out an English list or at least help us with the bin numbers. The staff member told us we needed the list from upstairs and to write down the bin numbers. When I mentioned the above situation, he mumbled something and just walked away from boyfriend, who said that his response was that we "just needed to figure it out." I'm sorry, but excuse me??? So this is exactly my point: I know that IKEA is mostly a self-serve store, but when that is not facilitated, then what is the point exactly? Finally, yes, we did get the pieces needed for the bookcase, but it would've been a much easier process had things been set-up properly. I had no such problems when I bought a wall unit about 2 years ago. In fact, the experience was completely the opposite.
So until IKEA opens another location, I think I have to say that I am officially over this store. I will be getting any furniture needed for my upcoming move from Target, thrift stores or family and friends. Anywhere but IKEA for now, no matter how cheap they are (and even that point is debatable).
If Ikea is open, Ikea is crowded.
There has never been a time when the parking lot is not full but it can be worth the hike to get those little things there that you can't find anywhere else.
Ikea is legendary in its ability to suit the needs of people from all walks of life. It seems you couldn't walk into a home in Houston without spotting at least one Ikea product.
Wandering through the rooms they have set up, you think about reorganizing your whole life with their little bins and cubbys. Ikea has a way of making you rethink storage and functionality.
Be prepared to hike a bit to get to the door - but once you've got your cart full of goodies, just pull your car to the loading dock to get it all in and home in a hurry. Oh, and don't forget to check out the scratch and dent section - sometimes you can get a steep discount on something someone just assembled and returned unscathed.
Even if I didn't love their stuff I would come to Ikea for their food, how weird is that?
The food is like their furniture, its cheap, its fast, its pretty, and its good. I had the Swedish meatballs and they are really good. If you like you can even buy a bag of frozen ones and make them at home!
I avoid this place usually, but I saw some great jars in a magazine and since Ikea has no online ordering, I had to stop in the store to purchase them. So, I ventured over on Friday morning to avoid the normally horrendous crowds. I hate how you have to walk 5 miles to get to anything within the store. I finally get back to the kitchen supplies area and find the huge sign for the jars that I want, but no jars. In inquire as to if there are any more in the back and I am told no. I ask if they can be sent from another store, she says that I can call Round Rock. I ask if Round Rock will be able to ship them to me, she says no "because they are breakable". Does she expect me to drive to Round Rock to buy three $5.99 jars?
Ummmmm...weren't they shipped to the store? I am guessing so since I don't see a glass factory anywhere in this immense structure.
I had to walk out, jarless, vowing never to return to this waste of space of a store again.
I like Ikea. It's good modern designed furniture, for the college student or somebody fresh out of school. And the names make me giggle. kekeke. Much of their stuff is what I call 'dorm furniture', ie you use it for about six months, and it falls apart if you try to move it out of the residence. or it gets wet. Pressboard, particle board, yuck.
But there are not alot of options for furniture at this price range. Wal mart and target carry some bits and pieces of furniture (not much, and generally not the same quality) and not everybody can / wants to go thrift and antique shopping.
I like the way the store is laid out. Touching and 'test driving' furniture in simulated living rooms really help you get a feel for how everything will fit together.
Pass on the cafeteria. Food is nothing to sing about. But who goes to a furniture store to eat?
Always crowded, always full of good deals! It's fun to walk through this showroom and check out the displays once every couple months when you just want to pick up a couple glasses or something in the warehouse part (ground floor), and it's also good for fun, simple furniture on a budget! The staff is helpful if you ask for something, but not intrusive.
I like the Swedish food market and the price for an ice cream cone can't be beat (99 cents).
Sure, it's particleboard, mostly, but if you don't beat on your furniture, it'll last. I love my duvet cover from the odds-n-ends (opened and returned) section and my lamps, though they take funky bulbs.
Cheap yet trendy modern furnitures that appeal to the masses. But to make it cheap for the masses, they use cheap materials - hence the quality of the products tend to be not so great. Probably the furnitures that has no particleboards would be your best bet.
Food is "different." I like their offerings - cheap hot dogs, salmon, and some other stuff. They are offered for a great price, and I would not hesitate to eat here if I was here already for the shopping - but you'll have to press me to shop here.
Great place if you want to replace your furniture once a year. At least at the other crappy furniture stores you know you are buying to fit your budget but IKEA is expensive too. Pass on by.
I really really like this place. I think if you are on the creative side you can go here and get lots of tips on design. If nothing else just enjoy the surrondings.
This is not a store that you can just walk in and walk out. Whether you like it or not you are forced to wonder the huge 2 story maze of a store for hours. There is no other furniture store like it! The stuff is cheap and trendy. You don't have to spend an arm and a leg to make your place look cool. Downside is that you have to build the furniture yourself and sometimes it can take a long long time and is not much fun. At the end of your journey I recommend getting the 2 hot dogs and a drink combo for $3 because chances are you will have worked up an appetite.
I've gotten some decent cheap furnishings here, which I think everybody has at one point. But the Ikea in Houston is more expensive than the prices online (they say that since its a franchise, they make up their own prices). That sort of sucks. And some things are definitely too expensive like filing cabinets to go with their desks. But in genera I've found some really good deals there (a desk, a dresser, a lamp, some kitchen utensils, pillows, etc).ss
Dude. Breakfast for 99 cents! I'm there! I had lunch there as well. The cafeteria is a decent sized space (everything is bigger in Texas, eh?). The food is good for the price and heavy on the calories too. I was here during the semi-annual sale and there are hoards of people and college students looking to furnish their flat. This is one super (Texas) sized Ikea. I've been to a few in California and this Ikea is about twice as large as next one; it can easily fit a Walmart super center.
I could spend an entire day at IKEA. High quality at low prices, not to mention sophisticated design and versatility. LOVE LOVE LOVE IKEA!!
The store is amazingly layed out. I usually just go to look around and see what they have. The only problem for me is the parking. I've had trouble finding a space everytime.
I've been to IKEA plenty o times...
This IKEA is crazy big.
The parking is awesome, you can never run out.
So much trendy furniture, at affordable prices.
And is you get hungry from shopping, there's 2 food bars.
This place just has it all.
Better than Wal-Mart.
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