IKEA SHOPPING GUIDE // Tips for decorating on a budget, What to buy at IKEA hacks + tips
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2022
- After working as a designer for a residential interior design firm, and now working for my own interior business, I'm sharing my tips for decorating your home while also dealing with very real budgets. The one thing that working with clients has taught me: EVERYONE has a budget. There will always be places any client needs to save, and price-friendly stores like IKEA can play a very helpful role here. The key is BALANCE. In this video, I'm sharing my approach to striking that balance in your space, and in your budget. I hope it's helpful!
I'm making a trip to IKEA to help decorate my own apartment, and I'm talking through what to BUY and what to AVOID in order to accessorize, furnish and decorate your home on a budget. There are lots of tricks for furnishing your home without blowing out your budget. Can't wait to share this one with you!
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I'm 61 and my husband passed in 2019, so for the first time since I was 19 I'm living on my own and back then I'd only had 1 apartment for 1 year that I had on my own...so I get the whole "me all the time" thing. It's taken me a bit to figure out what I like, what works solely for me, what system is mine. But, as much as I miss my dear husband, I kind of like it and I too wonder about my ability to compromise...not that I'm too worried about it at my age. I've been slowly redoing, refreshing room after room on a budget...so I really appreciated this video. I love your channel by the way...always looking forward to new videos.
That sounds like it’s been a huge transition for you, I’m really sorry to hear of your loss 😔❤️I’m sure it’s been a big adjustment and I’m glad you’re taking the time and space for yourself. Lots of love to you dear ❤️
I really hope that you are managing this big change. 🌹
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😍 sad for your loss, butt good on you for remaking a life for you.
My "pro tip" as an amateur flower designer/arranger is to invest in opaque vases (like that very pretty white fluted ceramic vase) as it can be used with floral foam inside to precisely hold your arrangement and keep the flowers hydrated. One can also strip off the lower leaves (which extends the freshness of the blooms) without making your arrangement appear to be floating on top of sticks in the clear glass. Clear glass is pretty in a bud vase with one stunning rose, but a large clear glass vase gets to be messy and even scary (what is that brown water?!) very fast.
Milky or deeply colored glass works too
Good idea. Also clear vases, lovely as they are, can get stained - so opaque could look good for longer =)
This is very helpful, thank you so much for sharing!
I feel like the guiding principle for decorating on a budget should be to take your time. Buy good quality, timeless pieces that will last decades. No one needs to decorate a whole room in a month. If you really *need* something, but can't afford exactly what you want, buy it second hand, and wait. Most people who try to decorate on a budget fall into the trap of having to replace crappy furniture every few years, and they end up always having garbage from Target, IKEA, Walmart, etc. Do not assume your finances will be radically different, and put off decent decor until "someday." Scrimp and save, and buy it piece by piece. You'll save money in the long run not have to re-buy the same cheap looking Target couch over and over again.
(You also avoid tacky trends that way, because you have to think really carefully about what you're going to like for the next twenty years, instead of the next three.)
Exactly! I'm currently moving to a new house, I will use my current shitty furniture from Amazon that I bought when I was a student, and wait until they fall apart to buy better quality stuff, especially in real wood, if possible second hand :)
This!! My family are still using the couch set my dad bought decades ago when he jokingly said he'd spend all of the money the made on a project on a sofa, then ended up getting more money than he expected. Sofa's still holding up well (a nice sofa cover helped). Definitely cheaper in the long run than three different sofa sets.
"If you don't have systems and organization... it doesn't matter what the design is underneath". YES. Love this. 👏👏👏
Look at our fav new influencer getting sponsorships 💕
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Yesssss Queen! I’m so glad I found this channel! We have the same personality.
I couldn’t agree more that design and organization should be designed around a persons life not a instagram post! I love you and your videos!
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Thank you for your acknowledgment that not every design needs high end EVERYTHING. Thanks Caroline for keeping it real.
Your "pre IKEA" mental prep is 100% accurate. One time we went into IKEA to buy like one kallax shelf for our playroom, and I bought so many other things I wasn't sure it would all fit in our vehicle. Never again lol. I don't go without a list any more!
The greenish oval dish is great for serving things like pork tenderloin or other grilled items like Italian sausage etc. It's also good for serving cookies, biscotti, or a veggie tray. It's a good size for small crowds, but that said, I think you were smart to pass. I prefer white serving dishes, all kinds of textures, but I stick with all white. It makes it easy when everything matches for parties. I add lots of color with flowers and table linens and things like that.
I would love a follow up video showing using all the things in your space, especially the pink plate set, and if the weight of those dishes felt right. Maybe any regrets or opinions on things that didn’t work out as well. I always buy stuff at IKEA that doesn’t end up the way I envisioned and also lots of stuff that ends up way better then I thought it would. I would love that kind of video. Thanks! I love your channel.
I also do the Ikea-Prep and bring my list, the measurements of my space and my own tape measure. I wanted to share that it is so reassuring to me, that I am not the only one who has this routine. I may also spend time ahead in their online shop, if I need some extra orientation. I could not make it through Ikea without prepping; that is a big store! 😉 Thanks for this!
I just love your design videos because each one contains at least a single comment that totally unlocks or re-frames a barrier I'd been circling around fruitlessly. The bit about the credenza not needing to bring down the house (or wtvr) led me to realize that my 4-drawer-all-white-composite-material-dresser-from-Target doesn't need ~elevation~ when it's already pulling its weight. It provides closed storage, a standing desk with a customized slide out keyboard rack, and a sturdy anchor for the other white elements in an otherwise black metal dominated room. Plus I'm now frothing rabidly for an interstate trip to Ikea, which is like the Montana equivalent of connecting to the internet for the first time after a decade of being raised as a feral child in the woods... Culture!
I'm 68, have a house that's fully furnished (no trends, thank you!) and I love Ikea! Almost everything is so cute, and I did drop some dollars there. To furnish my guest bedroom, I gave myself permission to buy two white side tables to go with the 1970s maple full-size bed that I grew up with. It all looks so cute, and I'm glad to know, from a designer, that it's okay. New subscriber, love your channel and your outlook.
The custom IKEA fronts made me super excited when I first discovered them. But when I started to look into the price I realised I might as well just buy a higher end kitchen instead. The fronts are so incredibly expensive in Norway!!
I love IKEA. I get all cozy and warm feeling when I go there. Their curtains and sheer style panels are the best The quality is amazing and they are affordable. But the best thing for me is because they come so long, I can custom fit them to my weird size window heights in my home. I hang them, pin them and then hand sew the hems with a quick running stitch while still on the rod. I affixed a ring clip to one end at the top of the curtain and then attached a dowel rod with an eye hook at the top and use the dowel rod to open and close the panels. This prevents the panels from picking up any oils from my hands. The bottom pocket of the hem allows for curtain weights (or light weight chain or even extra butter knives) to be slipped in to keep the panels weighted down. Can you tell I’m very into IKEA curtain panels…. Frankly all their textiles are the bomb. I have two down comforters from them that have lasted me over 15 years.
There in Sweden we have lots of century old buildings with odd measurements such as three or four meter high walls and almost meter thick outer walls. That may have something to do with IKEA also having tall curtains available.
Dang girl, look at you with the sponsor! 😊 loved this little look into IKEA, really really loved their kitchen section!! I never even thought about the glassware being an 'experience' but now I really feel the need to get some proper glassware! Itll be nice to not have all plastic and mismatched cups 😅
glassware is a slippery obsession! tread carefully 😄
Proper glassware is a must!!
@@Caroline_Winkler lol thank you for the heads up!!!
I always look in the "scratch and dent" area first. You just never know what you'll find. I got a teak etagere and bath bench years ago that Ikea doesn't produce anymore. I guess they were floor models because they were SO cheap (but otherwise in perfect condition). And I still use them and love them...15 years later.
Same - I've found a few nice items that I wouldn't have been able to afford full price in that section.
Caroline- HELL YES! I had no idea there are companies that make custom doors for ikea kitchens!! My hubby and I will be renovating our 122 year old home in the next few years and I will be keeping that in mind.
omg so many good companies out there, yes!
the op kingdom, sounds like you have a great home with lots of history, which would be a great subject for your own channel, featuring your renovation. Just my opinion.
I did an Ikea kitchen. The difference in price between Ikea cabinets and kitchen design cabinets was huge. In Australia we don't have companies that do doors to fit ikea cabinets, but I purchased quality brass handles (online from the states) and they really elevated the look.
I'm loving your videos 💕
I LOVE the way those bowls look-but then I envision myself loading them into the dishwasher. If you don’t need them to fit neatly into the dishwasher slots, then they would be awesome. But for a large family, those would fill up half the dishwasher.
That pink scalloped plate could be used as a tray for candles or perfume❤️
coralling anything & everything
I'm a sucker for nice looking (and feeling!) silverware, mugs, glasses, dishes, towels, sheets, blankets, curtains, pillows.... anything that you interact with more closely, it just gives me the most joy and confort. furniture im more whatever but i can tell you everytime i drink tea out of my gradma's old china that i saved when she passed, it imediatly brings me peace. It being something that belonged to my grandma also plays a part but i have experienced this with lots of other items. I think most people experience this too but they dont realise this.
Ok, but we need to talk about how much better you have made me feel about how I choose items for my space. Thanks for reminding me that it is a personal and creative thing, not a paint by numbers from IG thing.
This is like shopping therapy only you get to pay! Thanks for taking us along!!
Several years ago, Consumer Reports did an issue featuring kitchen remodeling. Of the top five cabinet sources for good quality and value, IKEA, The Home Depot, and Lowe's were listed. If we ever remodel our kitchen, I would definitely go with IKEA cabinets. Also, if you do remodel a kitchen, save some of your old ones for the basement or garage storage.
I always look forward to your V-logs!
Nothing like a little Saturday morning inspo . Thanks for that !
Thank for this video! I love the cabinets for a tv stand idea, its exactly the look I want!
I look forward to your videos every weekend! They're so calming and enjoyable.
I love watching your fresh flower arrangements changing with time passing.
I love your videos and do enjoy going to IKEA with you to see all the latest decor. I too have a traditional style but enjoy a few modern touches and can’t resist 60s/70s vintage items. Look forward to your next video.
Always helpful! Thanks for taking us along with you!
Oh my gosh I love the concrete front for the credenza! Super useful advice Caroline
Hi Caroline, Great video - you made my day! Noticed Senor painting by the door - looks good! Please give us an update on your beautiful bedroom and any other apartment additions. Thanks for some great ideas, thoughts, and most of all the laughs. Have a great week!
Always love fresh flowers and candles! It's good for your inner calm.
I’m so excited for your sponsorship. Thanks for taking us along to IKEA. They have some pretty cool stuff
I love ikea, thanks for sharing your ideas about my favorite shop
Love the blatant honesty. Laughing all the way! I don't go anywhere near stores on the weekends. I've always been that way. Cool deals. 😎
I love how the budgets are always ACTUALLY plausible in a sane world, at least at some point.
I love your content! This is my favorite channel for learning how to decorate my home in a practical way. You have the best personality!
I got a silk pillowcase as a gift for my birthday. I love it and use it every day!
Love your channel, energy and mixing of styles! You’re 100% on point that all the same design style is a complete snooze fest!
I love Ikea - I liked watching your process as you went through and your inner dialogue. So many great ideas to liven up my space!
Love your ikea tips and also the rambling/inner dialogue
Love heading to ikea! And I agree they have a nice mix of traditional and modern. Super fun tour! ❤️
I love that you mentioned your dishware being an experience! I'd love to see inside your dish cabinets so see your collection! After almost 10 years of the same dishes and mugs I'm looking for a change. Love your videos.
Only because you said it would make you feel good- after all, I owe you! Thanks for the ideas and the fun!
Really inspiring methodology for walking through IKEA, thank you!
when you said it's all me every day of the week 👏👏👏 yes to no compromises! 🙌
I just discovered your channel and I love it!!! Love your personality, the way you explain things. Thank you!
Soon I’ll be moving to a new apartment & I know your videos will definitely help me when it comes to organizing and decorating it.
I love our Ikea cabinets more than high end designer cabinets we had in another house we owned. Ikea is the way to go for high end looks on a budget!
Thanks for the headsup on the traditional collection at IKEA!
I saw the Space Lamps and was immediately in love ❤
I love your design ideas and I love your apartment is absolutely adorable I love it.
Thanks for the tip for Lilly silk and I’m going to look into them look soft and beautiful
Thank you for articulating the organizational systems and support must exist or forget decorating. I knew it matters a lot inherently but have never heard it expressed it as such. You made it thru the easy-to-over-buy ikea gauntlet. Love your videos & look forward to them.
Thank you for showing some positives about what to look for when shopping at Ikea. Enjoyable!🤗
I'm moving out for the first time next week and have been preparing for my IKEA trip, so this is perfect timing. The ego trip of being able to control my own space is very much settling in for me aswell, haha.
You're insanely funny and give really solid advice. Thank you.
I loved this! Thank you for explaining where to pay and where to save. You are absolutely correct that we want to go over budget simply to get all goodies in our space. Now we have a better idea of how to navigate the darn budget and get the look/feel we’re after!
Thanks Caroline, really enjoyed this video. Planning a foray to Ikea soon.
Absolutely hilarious and on point, love love love catching up with my new fave YT bestie on a Saturday morning ✨ I have not been to an ikea in a decade but damn, flatware gets me too and they had some cute stuff!
I love your channel. It’s getting me through some pretty terrible times. Keep the videos coming. ❤
Going to ikea literally warms my soul, loved thissss.
Fav new UA-cam channel I stumbled across recently. Love your sense of humour!
I like you, you’re honest, funny, and practical.
I literally just bought the “Green Entusiasm” cups, so cute! You are my people, I love cups, glasses too! Loving your channel!
Love the Lommarp series, and didn't know it existed. And interesting to see that's where the 25 inch wide bookshelves went.
Cute tableware too, and some lamps that don't force you up mount bizarre. Thanks for sharing✌️
I LOVE no-nonsense people like you. You are hilarious without trying.
Such a great video. I loved your point about how organisational systems are crucial to interior design. And your point about how glasses/dinnerware are a part of design we really physically engage with. Intelligent and articulate and hilarious ... adore your content! 💗
I just cant get enough of your personality… great content
Caroline you are such a breath of fresh air, love your sense of humour, your style, oh and you are my people with the simple shoppers and their simple trolley management, eeep! Keep being you and telling it like you see it.
Soooo happy to see you growing your channel and getting sponsorships! You deserve all the success and abundance 💕
This was so good! Thank you for the tips as Ikea gives me anxiety. Anxious to see how you utilize your purchases ❤️
I absolutely fell in love with the Hemnes bedroom furniture in white wash at IKEA, I just went to Home Depot and change out the knobs for the ones that looks like diamonds. It got kinda expensive but I was so hella happy with the look.
Good viewpoint about ikea. It serves a great purpose! Still shopping there for myself and my adult children. Hope you love your finds.
I love IKEA! Great tips about accessories. I don’t like to spend too much on them so I don’t feel guilty when I want to change things up.
Nice to see your channel taking off! So many great ideas in this video. Sending this to my daughter who will be getting her first apartment soon💜
Thanks for taking us along. I love Ikea...fir inspiration and to pick up cute stuff! You did well :D
Love this video. I have never been to an IKEA. I really need more than one video a week. Thanks!
I think I love you Caroline. In a world with so much BS you actually respect your viewers. Thanks ❤️
Love this. We have the same taste. I want that pink dinnerware set. I had my eye on it the last time I was there and you just reminded me.
I gave it a "like"!! Thanks for taking us along to Ikea!! You are so funny and informative.
You found some lovely things! I have an IKEA 10 minutes from me and I avoid weekends at all costs. I’m looking for an entryway table thingy and I’m seriously considering the wall hung cabinet. Maybe in that lacquered finish . . . Thanks for the fantastic videos - you’re a gem! 🌷
Enjoyed this trip so much! Yes, the glassware and vase section is my danger zone also.
My fiance and I are trying to buy a house right now so love these design videos! We will probably be making an IKEA visit at some point - love IKEA. I actually found some really cute glassware from there at Goodwill two different times - same glass style with a different pattern to mix and match.
❤️ another great video Caroline. Thank you x
Love the concrete front tv stand for your space!
I also shan't be doing a kitchen renovation anytime soon, but WHEN I DO...one day...the tip for the companies that create custom cabinet fronts is such a good tip! I didn't know that existed! Love your style and your videooooos :)
You have gotten me back into headbands lol. Forgot how much I love them.
Oh my God woman! Where have you been all my life?! I've just found your channel in the last few days and I'm now obsessing/stalking my way through all of your videos. I love 😍 love you. You've given my my new design mantra, which I would quote but I've already forgotten it - something about design needing to work for your lifestyle. But there are many gems you say that resonate with me and on top of that, you are so interesting, open and funny. I've lost my shit at least once during every video I've watched. Love ya!!!
I agree on going to Ikea in the off hours to keep your sanity! Also, on Ikea cabinets being a great affordable option and from my experience, they can withstand the test of time! I recently renovated my kitchen (replacing 30 year old ikea cabinets that were in great condition, but wrong layout) and used ikea boxes and custom doors and drawer fronts from Semihandmade. Love, love love the result! Pro tip ....get a twist ice cream cone on the way out. Their strawberry is superb and not too sweet ....and its only a buck!
Everyone and their granny visits IKEA at the weekend! Which can be fun, but quiet times there are truly lovely. There is something thereputic about IKEA. So many shops are just overwhelming and scarey expensive.
I think my joy in IKEA are all the room layouts, the possibiities, in which I may never indulge, but are still a delight to see. What I really love about IKEA are the wee things I find, like the wooden (bamboo?) phone holders for £1.99 that are actually properly useful and make life better.
Can NEVER leave IKEA without candles and sissors. Weird. I think in the middle of the night there is a march of the sissors back to IKEA because they are definitely NOT where I left them - hence always need more! That'll be where their real profits come from!
Great shop.Great experience - they have definitely found a special formula that grabs me and makes me feel at ease and as if I could maybe pull together a room I can afford (AND that could look good too mixed and matched with heirlooms and secondhand treasures)
Caroline, great self restraint, BUT I do think you should go back for the pretty pink glass dish - until you find your puppy it would be lovely holding fruit.
Thankyou, fair enjoyed joining you on a wee shoping trip!
I just discovered your channel recently and I love your strong opinions. You're so funny and eloquent. Every video I learn so many new vocabulary as an architecture student and artist from germany! Looking forward for more.
I like the way you look at things, great eye
I love your videos, The best part is definitely you ranting before getting out of the car and when you get back in the car. All your tips are super helpful as I design my 1st help
Caroline, your editing skills are giving me a whole sensory experience! 😉 I genuinely appreciate your attention to detail 🥰💐
I definitely need to buy that standing lamp from IKEA, it looks so interesting and pretty!
I love that you say “him” when talking about an item/object. Alwhkhq hill
Obsessed with this whole video and your whole vibe and omg the fact that you called out the oatmeal cookies THEY'RE MY FAVORITE!!! I was just at IKEA yesterday and had to stop myself from getting them because I INHALE them!! Also I'm sitting on my Söderhamn couch right now that I've had for over a year and it's so comfy and I still love it haha I have thought about switching out the legs though cause they're not my exact style but go with my industrial apartment
Really love what you said about making design work for your systems in life. Design can be pretty and still very practical as long as we know and acknowledge our habits and systems!
Great options, I rarely ever pull the trigger on new utensils unless I know for sure it's going to be the best option & there's no other way that I could possibly swing and miss... which is why watching your reviews has been such an important part of our lives
Lovin your videos. Most entertaining IKEA video - great tips with great delivery.
I’m glad I found you and your videos