Brig, I know what would help you out. There’s a wonderful thing called The Internet, and it just so happens that IKEA has its own website… and they deliver and everything 🙂 (though not all items on the website can be bought online – go figure)
Ouch… sorry… that sarcasm was giving me a guilt-trip headache…
In the meantime, if you or Randie need any more ideas, try There, I Fixed It 😀
Oh, and Ryan? Yes, PVC pipe is structurally sound – or at least, it would have been if Randie had taken off the bendy bits first, and just left the vertical tubing.
. o O (why am I talking to a fictional character?)
lol
the closest Ikea to me is in another country!
(didnt stop us shopping there on our holidays last month though)
yay Ikea! Also for their great icecreams!
Cement blocks! You can’t go wrong with cement blocks! Lay out a few, slap a board on top and you’ve got a bookshelf. Put a few more on the board and put a second board on top of them and you’ve got a bookCASE. 😉
yes, oh, yes… Randie used cement blocks for her art desk in her old place (before it burnt down)… they are most useful… heavy but useful… I have used them myself. I still use crates… but not the milk kind.
It’s funny… I drew this toon over a month ago, and just this week, we’ve been talking about a trip to IKEA (yes, 80 miles away) for a matching bookshelf.
It used to be that IKEA wouldn’t deliver and you’d have to find a shipping solution yourself. I don’t know if that is still true. I HAVE been to the IKEA website lately (I used it to reference this toon)… but I didn’t check their shipping situation… I will have to do that.
Meanwhile, I am sorry that those of you who live FAR from IKEA have only the website to browse. A trip to IKEA is certainly an experience… although, I haven’t experienced their ice cream.
Pete-Great idea! I’m very thrifty so I’ll have to try that when I get my own place. Of course they’re all well and good until the power goes out and you’re trying to find a flashlight in a dark room…Your pocket will thank you, your toes and shins will not.
Call me a weirdo, but I actually like the starving artist/student approach to furniture. It’s thrifty, eco-friendly, and minimalist, three things I like very much. It’s strange yes, but I’ll be a starving artist some day, so I might as well enjoy it :)!
rigid electrical conduit works really well for making darn-near anything, plus it has all kinds of threaded connectors to make all kinds of angles, a hacksaw and pipe threader make you a one man IKEA haha!
Brig, I know what would help you out. There’s a wonderful thing called The Internet, and it just so happens that IKEA has its own website… and they deliver and everything 🙂 (though not all items on the website can be bought online – go figure)
Ouch… sorry… that sarcasm was giving me a guilt-trip headache…
In the meantime, if you or Randie need any more ideas, try There, I Fixed It 😀
Oh, and Ryan? Yes, PVC pipe is structurally sound – or at least, it would have been if Randie had taken off the bendy bits first, and just left the vertical tubing.
. o O (why am I talking to a fictional character?)
lol
the closest Ikea to me is in another country!
(didnt stop us shopping there on our holidays last month though)
yay Ikea! Also for their great icecreams!
Cement blocks! You can’t go wrong with cement blocks! Lay out a few, slap a board on top and you’ve got a bookshelf. Put a few more on the board and put a second board on top of them and you’ve got a bookCASE. 😉
According to Google Maps, my closest Ikea is 806 km away. In the same country. Canada is huge.
You can always order online and have them deliver. 🙂
Cement blocks? :XD Maybe check the structures befores 🙂
What you need is milk crates, you can hold stuff in them and use them as supports, tables, book shelves, bars, you can do it all with milk crates.
yes, oh, yes… Randie used cement blocks for her art desk in her old place (before it burnt down)… they are most useful… heavy but useful… I have used them myself. I still use crates… but not the milk kind.
It’s funny… I drew this toon over a month ago, and just this week, we’ve been talking about a trip to IKEA (yes, 80 miles away) for a matching bookshelf.
It used to be that IKEA wouldn’t deliver and you’d have to find a shipping solution yourself. I don’t know if that is still true. I HAVE been to the IKEA website lately (I used it to reference this toon)… but I didn’t check their shipping situation… I will have to do that.
Meanwhile, I am sorry that those of you who live FAR from IKEA have only the website to browse. A trip to IKEA is certainly an experience… although, I haven’t experienced their ice cream.
Pete-Great idea! I’m very thrifty so I’ll have to try that when I get my own place. Of course they’re all well and good until the power goes out and you’re trying to find a flashlight in a dark room…Your pocket will thank you, your toes and shins will not.
Call me a weirdo, but I actually like the starving artist/student approach to furniture. It’s thrifty, eco-friendly, and minimalist, three things I like very much. It’s strange yes, but I’ll be a starving artist some day, so I might as well enjoy it :)!
rigid electrical conduit works really well for making darn-near anything, plus it has all kinds of threaded connectors to make all kinds of angles, a hacksaw and pipe threader make you a one man IKEA haha!
ha ha ha, I’m the closest to an Ikea. it’s in the same city as I am. their meatballs are to *die* for. *drools*
“Is PVC pipe structurally sound?” XD