Los Angeles 03.13.2009

Four-Letter Furniture

The Mecca of design-on-a-budget can now be uttered with pride

Online degrees are everywhere these days thanks to the dour Dow. Because of sheer affordability, we dropped out of USC and earned our BA in male anatomy from Manhunt University.

But from the first moment we rearranged Barbie and G.I. Joe’s fantasy bedroom suite utilizing Feng Shui elements, we bore a dream for interior design, not proctology.

Helping us hash out our inner Grace Adler is new software from IKEA. Thanks to the recession, the Swedish design warehouse is no longer a four-letter word our ego is afraid to let slip from our lips.

After selecting a room (IKEA currently offers software for kitchens, bedrooms and offices), users play interior decorator with a 3-D map that simulates their space’s true dimensions. And though there is a time and a wonderful place for exaggerating a few inches, it’s best if we kept these measurements accurate; we don’t want to arrive home and find that the merchandise is too big.

(You’ll never hear that sentence from us again. Promise.)

Once a room’s Swedish destiny is chosen, users simply upload their blueprints to the company’s server and then can pick up the exact products at the store in Burbank.

If only deciphering the product’s assembly instructions were as easy. But then again, that’s what our DIKEA sisters are for.

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600 N. San Fernando, Burbank
20700 S. Avalon, Carson
www.ikea.com

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