Was Going To Spend $700+ Glad I Didnt...

Gellman · Mar 13, 2011

My son is starting to pull himself up and had been going for my stuff. He is still too young to understand "NO!" so we had to figure out some other option.

Went to a few furniture stores, but they wanted a crapload of money for a curio. Glad we decided to drive to IKEA in Austin.

$120 later, here is what I ended up with:

Should have done this years ago.

mstng99tim · Mar 13, 2011

Those look really nice, I like how that looks.

SilverandBlack · Mar 13, 2011

my inlaws live by an IKEA and just bought a few of those for my father in laws model cars and they look awesome in person. Im gonna have to pick a few of these up soon. Apperently a few weeks ago they had themm for 20 bucks and it was limited to one per person wish i knew about it i would hve brought 20 pepople with me lol.

gt2590 · Mar 13, 2011

Great looking, congrats!

AT a retail fixture-type store they would have run you $400-$800...

ricefan77 · Mar 13, 2011

Are those glass? Are they sturdy? Like if your son leaned on one of them, could he tip it over? Can you harness them to the wall, they do look nice. Ikea has some hit or miss stuff, i bought an armoire thing there years ago and it held up real well, i also bought some smaller tables and they fell apart.

Gellman · Mar 13, 2011

ricefan77 said:
Are those glass? Are they sturdy? Like if your son leaned on one of them, could he tip it over? Can you harness them to the wall, they do look nice. Ikea has some hit or miss stuff, i bought an armoire thing there years ago and it held up real well, i also bought some smaller tables and they fell apart.

They are very suprisingly sturdy, glass walls and front, wood top and bottom, You can harness to the wall, but the great thing is, he hasnt even shown interest in them. I put him in front to see what he would do, and he just turned around and scooted the other direction.

Gellman · Mar 13, 2011

gt2590 said:
Great looking, congrats!

AT a retail fixture-type store they would have run you $400-$800...

For a single curio, one that was the size of these two combined, it was 700-800 without delivery. Nicer, yes, but for the money, these are awesome.

MojoDan · Mar 13, 2011

Great move. That set up came out great.

Viking4Alpha · Mar 13, 2011

Haha awesome man. I have the EXACT same ones.

HIGHLY recommended to those on the fence. All glass, very sturdy.

I think GMoney has these as well if I remember right.

Ryo1549 · Mar 13, 2011

Wow looks great! I want some too lol. Found them online. May go pick em up here in Round Rock soon though.

JoshHamilton · Mar 13, 2011

IKEA is awesome. I might look in to those for my prewar stuff

PhillyPuckNut · Mar 13, 2011

Those are nice! I've been thinking about picking up something like that for my Flyers memorabilia. Have to find an IKEA.

deceptikon1978 · Mar 13, 2011

Great setup!

There is an Ikea about an hour away from me, definately going to have to check it out sometime soon. I need something like that.

Nacho · Mar 13, 2011

Did you have to assemble that?

cartersprings · Mar 13, 2011

Very nice, I have the same ones. They are surprisingly very sturdy & you can't beat the price.

Nacho said:
Did you have to assemble that?

Yes, but they are pretty simple. It'll help if you have someone around to help hold up the glass panels though.

Card Magnet · Mar 13, 2011

That looks great!

Junior Griffey · Mar 13, 2011

Looks pretty good. I'll have to look into these when we move. How old is your son? Mine is 4 months old.

Weimer · Mar 13, 2011

Pretty nice looking. There's a huge IKEA next to the Mall of America that I keep wanting to go to, but I've never been. Would like to just go look around at all the stuff some day. I heard it's a pretty big maze though and it's not easy to find your way out of there once you get in. Could just be that location, though.

Shi Guy · Mar 13, 2011

Wow, those look great. I wish I had the space for a couple. I think most ikeas are set up the same; in which section were they on display?

FATBABY · Mar 13, 2011

Found them online but they cost $250 to ship 2 of them to my house.

the closest Ikea is 4 hours away. This sucks. I will have to do some digging to see what I can find, although 4 hours of driving at $4 a gallon is still cheaper than $250. But still....

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