Ikea coming to Kansas City.
 

http://fox4kc.com/2012/09/26/ikea-to...n-kansas-city/


MERRIAM, Kan. — Swedish furniture store IKEA will announce plans Thursday to open a store in the Kansas City area.

The store will be built in Merriam, at the southeast corner of I-35 and Johnson Drive, at a currently vacant shopping center.

Official plans will be announced at a briefing Thursday morning. Fox 4 will have coverage during the day on Fox 4 News and at Fox4KC.com.

Ikea ****ing rules! Congrats!

Seems like the women I know love it, I've never been there myself. Is it like a Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel type of place?

Hopefully you're familiar with IKEA, the cavernous
Swedish furniture store??
While spending the better part of two hours in there
the other day I noticed that a lot of the Swedish
names for their furniture and stuff would make great
nicknames for your unit. Stuff like the Schlong lamp,
Shmedvik chair, etc.?
I mean, names like Peter, Mr. Happy, One-Eyed Willy,
the little Spelunker, etc. get old after a while, right??
So I jumped on-line for a look at their catalog, and wouldn't you know it's a virtual treasure trove of great nicknames for your Johnson.?
Here are just a few REAL names from the IKEA catalog
note: typing restrictions kept me from using the little two-dots, flying "v"s and other additional Swedish accent marks, but you'll get the idea. Happy shopping...

NAME (what it is) When the name applies

AGEN (chair) name it this if you’re on the Viagra
AKTION (spice mill) name it this if you get girls by saying you’re a director.
ALVINE (curtain) name it this, and you can call your balls “the chipmunks”
ANTONIUS (storage) macho as hell Roman name
BAGN (bed tray) if you always use a condom
BAREN (cabinet) if you shave it
BJARNUM JARPEN (shelf) if you want to give it a Star Wars-ish name
BLANKEN (soap dish) if you’ve had a vasectomy
BOLSNAS (basket) named after the other stuff down there.
BONA (vase) good name if it’s always stiff
BUMERANG (hanger) if it’s bent
BYGGA (construction set) if you’ve had it enlarged
DRAG (handle) if your penis will be a “surprise” to someone.
DRAGON (fork) Actually Short for “Peter B. Dragon”
bundle of sticksELBO (sofa) If you’re ghey, and it’s bent
FLYGEL (lamp) if it shoots far
FUNKIS (magazine rack) if it smells
FORMA (bowl) if you can bend it into shapes
GRIP (handle) if you’ve always got your hand on it
HOPEN (table) if you keep a condom in your wallet
INNER (cushion) where it wishes it can be
JERKER ( drawer) see GRIP
JABBA (hanger) If you like Star Wars names, though not recommended
KNUFF (file cabinet) if it’s just over five inches
MANE (chair) if it’s hairy
POKAL (glass) if you’d do anyone
PROMPT (muffin tin) if it comes on time
PLUGG (clock) what better name for something designed to fill a hole?
RAMBERG (wardrobe) Good name for it if you’re German
RIBBA (frame) if it will reach all the way up to her lungs
SCHLAGER (lamp) Perfect Swedish name for your wood. Say it out loud. See?
SIGFRID (bracket) great name if you have just one testicle, named Roy.
STORM (lamp) if it comes unexpectedly
SULTAN (bed) if you keep a turban on it
UTANG (lamp) with this name, you can use an awesome slogan “Utang wants some p**ntang”
VORK (rug) sounds like a Swedish Superhero. Plus, you can say, “Vork wants to pork”
WILMA (curtain) only a good name when coupled with the surname Cockfit

Was just in that one in Burbank. Good to see they are headed to KC. I need furniture out there.

No, it's like the WalMart of furniture plus home accessories. Be careful what you buy. Some is complete crap but they have a lot of really nice, practical things for a house. Every metro area should have one.

It's a full service home furnishings store. Bed sheets to pot/pans to furniture etc. Not a chine importer.

two words:

swedish meatballs

No, not at all.

First off, it's extremely inexpensive but well made. Most of the designs are mdf with a veneer but extremely stylish and Euro. Very sleek, very cool.

The biggest "drag" about Ikea is that you have to build it yourself. Everything is super heavy, so carrying it up stairs is a bitch. Also, they provide "Picture" diagrams instead of "instructions", so once you've successfully assembled an item, you know how to assemble it in the future.

But that's not all: They have super cheap but well made accessories for bathrooms, kitchens, rugs, dishes - basically everything you would need for your home or apartment. And the designs are so cool that even though you're not spending a lot of money, it looks GREAT.

I have so many Ikea items in my house that I couldn't even begin to count, from bedframes, dressers, chests, etc. and they look great and perform well.

And their kitchen cabinets and designs are top notch and far less than what you'd get at Home Depot or Lowe's.

it's better than WalMart quality. It's made in Sweden for Christ sakes! lol

If you haven't been to an Ikea in the past few years, I think you'd be surprised at the upgrade in quality. I remember back in the mid-90's, it was cheap and looked cheap. Now, it's still inexpensive but the quality is so much better and better looking, too.

I wouldn't be surprised if you install a few Ikea kitchens in the near the future.

Despite my immediate segue to quality, I didn't invoke the walmart name as an indictment on their quality - just that it is vast and you'll find every imaginable home accessory there - even kitchen cabinets.

No, I agree even though it has been a while. Ikea was a semi-monthly trip for us when we lived in Houston and I'm sure we still have plenty of Ikea items in our home. I even enjoy their lighting selections. I'm excited about the news. I'm pretty sure I heard rumblings about this last fall.

I gotcha... I used to work at a C&B a few years ago.. so I know about assembling stuff. It really is not that hard to assemble any of it if you pay attention... pluse one thing that could help people is taking it out of the box piece by piece.

Nebraska Furniture Mart must be going nuts right now. some competition for those bastards.

Wt.. I thought everybody had an IKEA

I've been hearing rumblings for about a year as well from family members. They always bring it up when they visit because our guest room and our daughter's room all features Ikea furniture. It's well made but somewhat disposable, which makes it great for kids.

For example, I bought a four drawer chest in white for my daughter's room along with the matching full size bed and mattress for less than $350.00. It's sturdy and comfortable and we went that route instead of "real" furniture so that she could put Hello Kitty stickers all over everything and make it "her" room.

Ikea really saved my ass recently on a bathroom remodel. I only had 18" in which to install a vanity and pretty much everything I could find that looked nice and worked with the room was $600+. On a random trip to Ikea, I found an amazing vanity, with sink, that fits perfectly in every way for $159! Instead of mounting it to the wall, I bought the steel six inch feet and it looks amazing with the travertine tile in that bathroom.

I'd figure that IKea furniture wouldn't be acceptable in the hollywood A-list celeb crowd. Who knew.

Awesome. You guys can buy that $3,000 furniture and in two yrs ill buy it from you on Craigslist for $89

$3000?

Uh, not at Ikea.

I get my sheets from Santa Fe.

One time I spilt uh cran uh cranapple juice on my sheets. And the stupid Bitch at the cleaners tried to bleach them! #iwillkillyou

Did you get your overnight bag there too?

Just joking. Where do you tan?

Who is buying $3000 furniture from IKEA? You can furnish an entire bedroom there for $30 bucks.

Thier furinture isnt that good, but they have other items that are greqt.
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Yeah it isn't "wow, holy shit" amazing quality, but it's good stuff if you're on a budget.

I like IKEA. You're not going to find their stuff in a Better Homes & Gardens photo spread. It's a bit more simple/modern. Great place to get stuff to decorate a bachelors home. Also a great place for decorating kids rooms.

And going to the store is not an in and out affair. Plan on spending some time because the place is enormous.

Definitely a cool thing to get one in the Midwest. Kind of surprised KC is getting one. Probably the smallest city I can think of that has one.

There is one in Cincy.

Driven by it several times.

****ing HUGE.

It's better than other brands of self-assembly furniture I've bought. A lot of times when you buy a piece that you assemble yourself the screw holes aren't lined up well, or drilled at an angle or something. When you put together the Ikea pieces they line right up where they should. I think it's good quality for the price. And it's normally well designed.

Anyone know where I can find some quality furniture?

Ive been to the one in Austin a few times. If you go with the wife or significant other, sxpect to spend several hours there easy. They do have some pretty cool and unique stuff for the home.

If you love putting particle wood furniture together yourself, then its the place for you.

Ive bought a few things that were of "questionable" quality though, like a bed for my son. The holes didnt match up with the metal supports, hard to understand directions, wood splitting etc........

Overall, its a cool place to look around and kill a few hours.

Pretty cool store. Every time we make a trip to Orlando, we have to spend a couple hours there.

We just spent quite a wad there to furnish two kids rooms. I like the simple/modern style, and compared to other BIY furniture the quality is much much better. When compared to the crap you would spend a lot more for at low end furniture chains it's a fantastic deal.

I'm not sure these can really coexist.

Definitely sleek and cool, but nothing you'd really want (or be able) to hand down to your kids.

Nothing wrong with limited life furniture, just know what you're getting.

Outstanding.

If it's anything like the one in Schaumburg, it'll be crawling with yuppies, soccer moms and screaming brats, and tie up traffic for a mile in every direction on weekends. I went there once. There will never be a twice. :grr:

yes yes.....of course all of this.

Since you mentioned kids, the one ive been to had a daycare place in the front of the store where you could dropoff your kids for a few hours while you shopped. Not sure if they all have that or not?

The ones I've been to in Houston and Dallas had them. And two little eating areas. One where they sell Swedish meatballs, mac and cheese and sandwiches, and then a hot dog stand near the warehouse area.

I go to IKEA for lunch every day. Never bought any furniture there, though. Used to go to the hot dog stand at Home Depot but I got into a fight with the assistant manager there.

Oh yea, forgot about the eateries inside the Ikea stores. Those are really good too.

Shit yes. Tired of driving to Dallas.

ROFL

Ikea is cheap as shit.

I live like 10 minutes from the one in Frisco.

I've made a few trips down there with a UHaul. It's hard to beat for remodeling, additions, or making a nice (but cheap) retail space.

You'll find lots of it in Dwell or Architectural Digest.

It is really interesting to see their displays where they say how many square feet a space is and you see how much they did with a small space. Just a tiny little room and they have sofa/TV/Desk/chairs and a table and it looks good.

There's an In N Out burger right near it now; just a heads up in case you ever find yourself down there again.

Ahh, nice. Last time we ate at some wood fired (I think) pizza place in a little developed entertainment/shopping district south of there. The pizza was good.

Yeah, probably Palios or Fireside Pies.

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I don't know if i'd correlate well made with Ikea. Better than Walmart quality furniture for sure....but....I mean it's decent...sometimes.

Also, their prices have gone way up. It use to be cheap. I wouldn't consider them cheap anymore at all, a lot of their stuff seems overpriced.

They have a killer lighting section though.

I've never known anyone who's had their Ikea furniture fall apart, or the laminate come off, or the kids chairs and furniture break, etc. It's always been indestructible for us.

A nice looking queen size bed frame for $149 and a matching for 4 drawer chest for $99 doesn't scream "overpriced" to me.

The biggest drawback to shopping at Ikea is parking, dealing with a massively packed store with slow people that gawk at everything, long lines and loading heavy (and often times awkward) boxes into your vehicle.

I had to...:D

This is our Ikea.

Yes, Ikea is effing huge.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/23/320...e9e37059_z.jpg

It's relative. If you're into modern shit, they're extremely cheap. Otherwise, you're stuck dealing with CB2, DWR or Chiasso, which are all really high. If you're just wanting "normal" furniture, then there are probably better options.

is this place good for someone who is trying to flip a house? For stuff like tiles, flooring, wall paper and shit like that? There is one not too far from me, but I never been in there.

I'm not sure that they'd be cheaper than Lumber Liquidators for flooring. Fixtures, lighting and cabinetry are cheap, though.

IKEA is awesome. We have one here in Atlanta, and the only drawback is that when you go there it will be 2+ hours. Even if you're only in there for one specific thing. It's so big it makes a Super Wal Mart look like a corner grocery store.

Ikea pro tip:

Make an account online and set it up for the store you're visiting. Make your "shopping list" online and print it out (or get it when you get there). Don't bother going through the showrooms. Go straight to the warehouse and pick and pull. This saves you tons and tons of time, because winding your way through the showrooms is what takes so freaking long.

Of course, you may want to browse, but if you're trying to be efficient, that's not the way to do it.

It's big and it makes you walk through the whole store. There's on little shortcut in the middle, but you mostly see the whole store.

:thumb:

I'm teaching this to my wife pronto...

IMO you dont go to an IKEA store to be efficient. The main experience is walking through the showrooms.

IKEA baby

those Swedish bastards have great stuff haha

Don't let your wife take you there unless you are prepared for a journey. I did it once a few years ago, no more for me.

When your wife takes you to Ikea the proper behavior display for a man is to head to the cafe area and get cinnamon rolls and ice cream. Then you sit at a table and play on your phone for the next 2 hours, while stuffing your face full of tasty goodness. LMAO

Where were you when I needed you? :D

Honestly, I didn't mind the journey as a first-time/one-time deal. Pretty interesting set up and they had a lot of interesting shit in there. But if I ever find myself there again I'll employ your technique for part of the trip.

Is it as big as Nebraska Furniture Mart?

Is the quality about the same or slightly worse?

I-35 and Johnson Drive. What is funny is when they built all those shops I could tell nothing was going to fill those spaces. IKEA is just going to demolish them now haha.

That area is going to be absolutely PACKED with traffic! It is already a pretty tight area as far as roads go, add in the train tracks on Johnson Drive just a block aways.

There isn't anyplace to tie up your horse if that's what you are asking.

You have never seen a NFM I take it? This is the one in Kansas City.

http://www.interbranddesignforum.com...m/large_01.jpg

http://images.citysearch.net/assets/.../8/7339948.JPG

Looks like you have room for your horse and buggy there. I stand corrected. If the name has the word "mart" in it you know it's upscale.

I don't care much for modern style furniture so I don't have much of that from Ikea, but for anything I have ever wanted to organize, they have something I need. My garage has a full Ikea modular storage solution with hooks and racks and shelves to keep everything neat and easy to find. You can totally customize it to fit any space with different options for securing to walls, floors or ceilings. It's super cool and cost me about 300 dollars total (and I bought every little extra hook and hardware for that.) I had planned to get stuff to take back to organize my KC basement the same way, but now I can just wait for them to open there.

I hate going there. It is like a casino, no windows or clocks and no help to find the exit, but it is worth it. Love the efficiency idea NewChief. Thanks!

For those of you that bought appliances from them, were those hard to put together?

No, appliances are easy to put together. I think the microwave is the easiest although some of my friends think it's the refrigerator that's easiest.

YMMV.