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Dumplings & Ikea - How to make your trip to Ikea pain free

 We hit the 7-year mark over the weekend since we got married. There were no roses, breakfast in bed as, you know, married and all! But we did venture out to our local Chinese Restaurant for some dumplings and Yum Cha because… Dumplings. I’m in love with Dumplings.

 

Dumpling

image via Pinterest - because i scoffed my dumplings down before i could take a photo!

 

My sister Angie came over the day before our Yum Cha feast for a visit and I got big cuddles and some playtime with my gorgeous niece. Angie is a super organised, a planner and with her background in drafting engineering she is brilliant with all things squares, shapes and layouts. So while I dished out pumpkin soup and had cuddle times with my little niece Bonnie, Angie shared with me the secrets of the Ikea website!

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Little #Bonnie

The brilliance with Ikea {which I didn’t know} is that they have planners’ people! And not just kitchen ones. I was looking at updating our entertainment unit area to create more storage and Angie navigated through the Ikea site with ease straight to the planner section.

Now if you are anything like me and don’t know where to start you can always check out their galleries for ideas. Pinterest has been my friend throughout this process and has provided heaps of inspiration.

So the low down on Ikea Planners

 

  • You can pretty much design anything
  • Once you worked out what style of furniture get the measurements for your room
  • Design away – this gives you a visual 3D so you can see what your end product will look like
  • Once you are happy with your design { we opted for the Besta Units to configure our wall for our entertainment unit } you press “print” and it spits out your “shopping list” which provide you details of each item required to make up the design, including name of item, how many you need and where it is located in their warehouse!

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  • Coax husband to come with you to Ikea and promise that collection wont take more than an hour!

So with washing, laundry, vacuuming, and making the house look semi presentable being done, we headed to Ikea

Now I love Ikea, but because we live about an hours drive away from our closest store, it’s not somewhere that we go to very often and the two times that we have in the past has ended up in shit fight between Steve and I – you see he’s not a retail type of guy and mentioning an excursion to somewhere with shopping, people and buying things would equate to a personal nightmare for him!

But as promised with shopping list in hand, oh and the assistance of Angie in tow instructing which aisle and location to go to, we were done and dusted in less than 2 hours!

So if you want to visit Ikea with furniture purchasing in mind, jump onto their site and check out their planners.

These planners can save marriages!

 

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