I got my IKEA 2010 mag in the mail Friday and hubby and I have already discussed things we might want to add to the house once our life-long, tear-your-hair-out remodel is done. We have never shopped at IKEA because it's a 2 hr drive to get there and really, we never realized how insanely inexpensive it is. But now that the whole world has alerted us to the joys of shopping at IKEA, we will have to make a trip someday soon (maybe my October birthday?)... possibly for some of these things:
We are planning on selling our brown "What were we thinking? This isn't even our style" couch that we bought right after getting married, and buying a new, much more practical and appealing couch. This is one of the options. I have seen this in both green and a gray/white stripe and prefer both of those to the white, but they are nowhere to be found on the site...
We initially wanted white floor in the kitchen, but after looking at all of the options, we decided they would be too expensive. This definitely isn't expensive. Has anyone used their Tundra floors before?
I don't think hubby is on board with the hanging seat craze, but they look so fun and quirky to me... and a little like having part of a swingset in your house, and who doesn't want that?
I'm not actually considering this, but is it not almost exactly the same as the chair the kids are sitting in in Sleepless in Seattle? Methinks so. It would be terribly fun for a kid's room. (Speaking of Sleepless in Seattle... a Broadways musical in the works? Veeery iiinteresting.)
Do you shop at IKEA? What are your thoughts about it?
At first, I thought it was part of the magazine until I saw that the ink was shining differently in the light (Nancy Drew skills)... I know, I was thinking it would be a very strange addition as well. Then once I figured out it was ink, I thought somehow I had gotten a magazine that someone at the distribution center had written in before mailing. That also struck me as strange. I decided to flip through the rest of the magazine to see if there was anymore writing. The next note tipped me off. Hubby had gotten to the mag before me! Hubby has so many different ways he writes, I can't always tell it's his writing. I confronted him last night and he said he had looked at it at 4 in the morning while he was waiting for his coffee to brew. He cracks me up.
I definitely like this idea to create an entry. We don't have an actual entryway and have been brainstorming ways to create one. We've played around with the idea of a bookcase, and I definitely like this one. The only problem I see is that while it will look nice on one side, the other side will be the backs of all the books. 
The first purchase hubby and I made with our wedding money was a brown couch. Unfortunately we didn't think it through enough and are now stuck with a patterned brown couch with big brass studs up the arms. It is definitely not a neutral or classic style and I already want to get rid of it. Hubby and I always discuss what couch we "should have" bought. A couch with a pull-out bed like this would be perfect since we have so many out-of-town friends we want to keep our home open to. Someday...
