ikea : a lowly wage-earner’s fantasyland
sofas in fabulous colours and textures
simple, linear designs to lessen the cluttered look of any apartment
I have browsed catalogues (paper and digital) of Ikea since I don’t remember when. I have made kitchen layout using their online tools. I have fantasized of furnishing our master’s bedroom with Ikea products. I have dreamt of IKEA in full colour and Dolby surround sound.
When I got to Jude’s apartment, the first thing I noticed was the kitchen implements - the flatware, pots and pans and even the condiment receptacles. All got IKEA proudly stamped on their bottoms and I was like “They have AY-KEE-YA here?” Sure they do but it wasn’t until my second visit when I finally located their outlet in Causeway Bay.
I had only an hour left to go see the rest of what’s there to see. There’s a bus scheduled at sometime past 6 and I have yet to jam the pasalubongs into my pink luggage so the last minute Ikea sighting was very limited kind of sighting. I wasn’t even able to explore the lower floor where the accessories are. And I wasn’t able to touch all that I wanted to touch but it rekindled my old love that died when we moved to Manila.
And we were transformed to being young lovers again — with all our hopes and dreams before us. We examined kitchen furnishings, tabletops and sinks and ran our hands against all touchable surfaces. We made calculations and measurements (they have tape measures and pencils and papers for your shopping list) and renewed our goal to build us our dream home together.
To me the whole experience was like a very solemn renewal of vows — vow to love and hold and raise children and shop together.
miss deb! di ba you’re going back on the 13th?? ma.explore galore na jud nimo ang ikea..post lotsa pix..hehe, will window shop through your eyes… no wonder you made that comment on my floor pillow..imit ra jud to ako.a…didn’t even realize na it was labeled such until you pointed it out to me..
anyway, i hope you can snatch an item or two from there…
Comment by vet — February 6, 2009 @ 5:30 am
will do ma’am. i think what you’ve got was really an original tho.
Comment by sleepless — February 10, 2009 @ 3:19 pm