The Frosta stool, which I went to buy a few months ago in order to DIY this project has been discontinued. Actually, it turns out it hasn't been discontinued, it's just not carried in the US stores anymore. It turns out that there are a lot of products Ikea doesn't sell in the US. Some of them are no longer sold here and some were never sold here in the first place. Here's what caught my eye among their latest offerings:
• Atlant is pop-up drainer so you can drain the water out of a full sink without putting your hand in the water, handy for when the sink is filled with water that's especially dirty or gooey.
• Kludd is a noticeboard made of frosted glass. Sleeker than a chalkboard, the glass itself feels right for hacking.
• Alang, a simple cylindrical ceiling lamp that would be great option for a rental, just ripe for customizing.
• Celeber are oil and vinegar cruets that go with the Celeber series of kitchen storage products.
• Tofteyrd is a high gloss coffee table that sits low to the ground and that comes in either white or black.
What products have you noticed at Ikea that aren't sold at your local store?
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THe coffee table is sold in the US: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40197486
UGH. I really wished they sold that shade here! Honestly, I was just at ikea thinking, i wish this lamp shade was sold separately. Maybe Ikea will hear my pleas and release it here.
My local store in San Diego carries both the Tofteryrd square coffee table and a rectangular tv/media bench which, IMO, makes a better coffee table for narrow spaces. I got the white gloss tv bench and it's a perfect table for my living room.
It's also almost 1/3 cheaper!
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90197498
I got the Kludd noticeboard at the IKEA in Cincinnati about two years ago, and I love it!
http://www.ikea.com/de/de/catalog/products/40201148
http://www.ikea.com/de/de/catalog/products/90207157
http://www.ikea.com/de/de/catalog/products/S49889756
I like
to poke around on the Ikea Germany site.
and I am seriously wondering why they don't bring over well-priced, fully integrated
Frostig fridges.
Draining gross dishwater without putting my hand in has been an impossible (or so I thought) dream of mine for as long as I can remember. Damn you Ikea!
The Tampa store is fantastic!
Gross dishwater solution: get one of those plugs that comes with a metal chain. Add a cork or other flotation device to it (rubber duckies, anyone?).
Also, IKEA doesn't sell it's PS line in all it's stores here in the USA- in the Stoughton store which is the store closest to Boston they don't sell most of it. I would kill for somethings in that line but really can't drive to New York for them!
I've lurked on the Ikea Sweden site, and here are some of the things I'd love to see in the U.S.
http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/categories/series/16363/
http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/categories/series/12872/
http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/categories/series/17405/
And look at the great choice of appliances:
http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/categories/departments/kitchen/20822/
http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/products/20151130
Great finds -LOVE the lampshade (& table), but would find little use for the dish drain thing. I am hoping they have those little farm vases at other Ikeas since they've been discontinued here. Boo!
The biggest difference between US stores and European stores are the appliances. IKEA sells some AMAZING appliances over there, including
a grill cooktop: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20154162
a refrigerator with drawers that looks like your other base cabinets: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/10199496
and a built in espresso machine for less than half what you'd pay for a machine in the US: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/80113041
Really? There are that many people scared of dirty water? I love the lamp shade though! It would be perfect in my living room.
For the kitchen sink problem, you can take one of those right-angle bamboo back-scratchers and remove one of the center tines.
Now you can hook the strainer out and immediately rinse it off.
Of course, you'll only get 75 percent efficiency when scratching your back.
I don't understand about the sink thing. Are your plug not on chains? I'm sure you could get one at your local hardware shop for about 50p ($1?).
The ATLANT sink thingy is "new" so maybe it will be in the US shops soon. Funnily enough those pop-ups have been around for years for bathroom basins, but that's the first one I've seen for a kitchen sink, you'd think if it would work in a bathroom somebody would have thought of it for a kitchen before now.
I want a Tranby mirror. It was discontinued in Australia 2 years ago, but I notice you could still get it in the US up to a couple of months ago. I keep checking ebay here, but no luck so far.
Any one seen an 'available' lamp shade similar to this one in the US? Been looking for this exact thing forever and now I get teased with one I can't get!
It just KILLS me that Ikea doesn't have equal stock in the USA, or a way to get a piece. Found the absolute perfect sideboard table solution for a weird hallway/living room wall section, but the piece isn't in stock locally, and I can't order it to be shipped. Frustrating. :(
The have a kitchen base cabinet in the UK that has 5 small drawers instead of the 4 small ones and a large one offered in the US that i'd love to have for my kitchen remodel.
We once went to IKEA in Sweden and they had clothes. Although I can't say I would buy them all the time, the novelty was cool and I ended up with some super comfy pajamas!
Every time I go to Holland, I'm so jealous of all the awesome stuff they sale at the Dutch Ikea, like the Alang lamp my sister bought...hope it makes it to the usa soon!!
Hong Kong IKEA has a lot of unique products, specifically catered to their small square footage. Everything is just so cute! Their kitchen showrooms range from a few hundred square feet to the size of a closet. And many of their products are multi-functional. Love digging through their stuff!