We love IKEA. Our house could be in IKEA catalog - about 80% of our furniture and decor came from there. Of course, we also buy smaller things there - kitchenware, linens, toys, etc. We live in a relatively small house (under 2000 sq feet), and we like to keep it ordered. That's where IKEA shelving systems come very handy. A lot of people complain about IKEA furniture, because it requires assembly (and in some cases also painting or varnishing), but my husband enjoys the flexibility and the fact that he can wrestle the system in whatever way we need. I was bugging him for a while to find a solution for our small family room that also serves as an dine-in kitchen. I wanted to have Anna's "working corner" where she can have her play kitchen supplies, workbooks and some crafts. We looked at so many systems trying to find the perfect solution for the space we had. Eventually we sat down with a pencil, paper and measuring tape and drew what we wanted. We went to IKEA, got the shelves that matched (sort of) the rest of our system, and my husband custom-built, by cutting and changing the shelves that we bought. I am very pleased with the results. For now the shelves are mostly filled with Anna's play kitchen stuff (one of her favorite activities), but eventually I hope to implement more of a workbox system. I am reading some blogs about it, and think that it's something that will benefit our daughter who clearly inherited our desire of order and structure.
And this is Anna's Art Center that is also in our family room. It's made out of IKEA IVAR shelves. My husband put a couple of cardboard pieces close to the top for the projects waiting to dry. It's "strategically tall" - we place craft supplies that we don't want her to use without supervision on higher shelves. Currently the boxes hold:
- Sticker arts (not on the shelf, Anna was playing with stickers at the moment),
- Collage materials including scissors, all magazines and school glue
- Play-doh
- Paint/Markers/Paper/Coloring books
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Great storage solutions. Very smart to make it tall. I also love Ikea. I am interested in seeing what type of workbox system you use.
We love Ikea also - like you we live in a smaller house and 80% or more of our household furniture comes from there. I love how you've organized your daughter's stuff. I just learned about workboxes, they sound interesting but I need to research them some more.
To answer your question from my blog, I add the watermarks to my photos using Windows Live Writer, which is a free download and very easy to use. It's a nice blog editor, and makes uploading photos faster than blogger at least - I'm not sure how it compares to the wordpress editor.
We are also Ikea fans, in fact I was only there yesterday and came home with an easel for my daughter, a lamp for me, and cooking utensils - the minis for her and the maxis for me!
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I ADORE Ikea! WHo doesn't?! If they don't it's a sad thing for them they are so missing out!
I also adore husbands to put together the randomness and millions of pieces that comes with ever trip to Ikea. :)
I love Ikea too! I also really like the idea of an open concept workshelf, I really want to try that out :). We have a low art shelf but we also have one beside it that has doors holding the supplies we don't want my daughter to get to on her own. This is great, I really like how you have the magnetic board to hold her artwork :)
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