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Swedish furniture retailer whose Mid-Century Modern aesthetic is criticized as the homogenized template for all contemporary furniture design.

Mentions (14)
"Ikea's on the way home. I'm only dropping in to grab food and coat hangers but I end up walking the whole loop while listening to the *Life* album by the Cardigans. Come across the kids' section on second/top floor where the animal plushies are. All of a sudden, for the first time in maybe 10-12 yea"
Almost burst into tears at Ikea today · 1984AD_ · ↑446 · 2023-06-23
"Every new coffee shop ir overpriced health food place, they all have the same white, ikea furniture aesthetic."
"insisting that i put together my friends ikea shelf in his room while everyone else is hanging out downstairs (i did it wrong and had to take it apart)"
real examples of toxic masculinity · u/AbbreviationsPale884 · ↑277 · 2023-08-01
"Friends still have a deep aversion to punitive non-tipping, so I still bust out the 20%, but at this point eating at the Ikea cafe or carl's junior in my car, alone, have been my best dining experience in years."
Abandoning eating out (decline of the West) · u/PMCPolymath · ↑187 · 2025-01-17
"They 'update' hardwood to vinyl, throw monotone IKEA shit everywhere, and try to double the price."
WTF is with gray wood floors?? · u/Shmodecious · ↑111 · 2023-10-05
"I have a friend who does task rabbit and he just builds IKEA furniture for tech dudes too incompetent to do it themselves. He says that the furniture he builds is usually the only piece in the house."
Tech bro "minimalism" · u/PolarBearClanGaming · ↑101 · 2022-08-14
"- Bought entire bedding set from Ikea. Used to only have a sheet and use a couch pillow. Now I have two nice pillows a duvet and a more comfortable bedsheet."
I'm deep cleaning rugs right now · u/Frequent-Ant1795 · ↑94 · 2025-12-23
"I had to run out earlier to buy a mallet for these shitty IKEA drawers that are held together by a bunch dowel pins that barely fasten without getting pulverized."
Walking down the street with a mallet · u/frigrigfig · ↑80 · 2021-08-29
"The furniture and decorations that you can buy from your home at brick and mortar stores (outside of antique stores) has converged to inoffensive bastardized MCM IKEA shit, all houses built in the last three decades look the same and flippers take any houses that don't and try to make them look like"
"No matter how much I try to keep it clean it always looks so disheveled and non of my fuck ass ikea furniture matches and when I go on Pinterest I see pics of peoples rooms for inspiration and a lot of them also have ikea furniture but it looks so much more aesthetic in their rooms than mine"
I feel so blackpilled abt my room · u/Peterpumbkineater · ↑48 · 2025-09-27
"I am lost and this place is endless. why did we let the Swedes do this to us. I hate their garbage furniture....The snacks are pretty good though."
ikea feels like a punishment · u/alexandrini · ↑44 · 2021-06-13
"can't wait for the ikea derek news cycle next month"
it's a guerilla marketing campaign suckers · u/noncoherence · ↑37 · 2022-01-22
"It is quite remarkable how quickly I can navigate the meager space between your 720 square feet Ikea-infested atrium, kitchen and closets."
"There's no description about the material or size of the rug casually priced in the price range of a Ferrari. Even a $5 dollar vase on the IKEA website would have at least a couple sentences."
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