[basil]

I hate to be a spoil sport—but I can’t imagine buying much at IKEA. I guess I’m not into the “Swedish Style”.

[Sleeping Beauty]

I love Ikea. I was there last night buying a lamp I needed. Also, eating a hot dog. Their food is very good.

It has been estimated that one in ten babies in Europe is today conceived in an Ikea bed.

Okay -- that's a surprising fact I have never heard.

[Sleeping Beauty]

Ikea homes sold in the UK.

http://www.boklok.com/

[Tax-chick]

Marie Christiansson, 36, lives in a BoKlok apartment in Malmö with her partner and two children. ... She loves her apartment. “It hasn’t been built with lots of dead space – you can use every spare meter,” she says. “But it could be a bit bigger.”

I guess she didn't read the part where it said the apartment was intended for a single woman with one child.

[The Great RJ]

US manufacturers could lean a lot from Ikea. My wife recently purchased a desk from Ikea and I was impressed by the quality and design. We had several previous assemble it yourself desks from US makers and found the pressed sawdust covered with a plastic ersatz wood skin, simply does not last. If you fail to get one of the assembly pins in straight whole pieces of the panel can come off. The Ikea design used real wood veneers and sandwich type panels that are far more sturdy than pressed wood. The directions took a little getting used to, but my wife and I were still speaking to each other after we got it assembled.

The Ikea in Minneapolis has a great 99 cent breakfast.

[Larry Lucido]

ALLEN KEYS NOT NEEDED

"I beg to differ."

(Yes, I know how it's spelled). :-)

[Born to Conserve]

The IKEA engineers haven’t figured out humidity yet. Their furniture melts at 80% RH.

[facedown]

Marie Christiansson, 36, lives in a BoKlok apartment in Malmö ...

Not for long.

[sphinx]

It has been estimated that one in ten babies in Europe is today conceived in an Ikea bed.

This could explain the European population collapse.