Feast your eyes;
Stockholm-based Superfront are absolutely obliterating the 'fear-of-ikea' so many of us have. The idea is simple; you buy / upgrade your existing products from the basic Metod or Besta range - anything from sideboards to kitchens, and then you funk that shit up with Superfront.
Exhibit A:
Standard Besta storage unit 180 x 40 x 74cm
Total : £208 + hell trip to Ikea.
Side note; always go weekdays people, always. Skive work, leave the kids home alone, do anything it takes but avoid rainy weekend days like Ebola. Also the delivery service they offer is quite possibly the biggest shambles that I have ever encountered; I would have rather walked the 15.4 miles through London to ikea and manually carried the 72 units home. I'm a seasoned ikea delivery user and it seems to get worse and worse each time. The last plonkers (what a great word) had a van that looked like a skip they'd robbed (maybe they had).
Exhibit B
Geometric charmer of a sideboard. That colour. That kick board.
Ikea hacking at it's best. The theory is that its gives us "the possibility to create high quality furniture and interiors at sensible prices". Nice concept. But actually once you buy the original unit from the Sweedish mothership, how many G's are we splashing on this?
BREAK IT DOwNNNNN:
Ikea Besta unit: £208
60 x 64 doors x 3: Total : £243
60 x 40 Sides x 2: Total: £79
180 x 40 (for 2 sides) Top: Total: £72
120mm plinths (x2 needed) : £153
No handles required for this model (assume push pop)
Total = £755.
Now this may seem like a lot, but then when you look at what other funky, playful little sideboards are out there;
This chappy from Beut.co.uk at £2,694
This little minx from made.com at £399
This mid-century inspired bloke from Swoon Editions at £499
And Mr. Smarty Pants from Nest.co.uk at £1,995
These are the 'affordable' ones. there were others, that required re-mortgaging to buy. So, £755 (plus postage of around £70) don't seem so bad after all. In fact, for a pretty much custom buy that you can get for an existing peace of furniture this is a god damn bargain!
Thoughts?
B x
