Ikea has a number of excellent products that cost less than 100 rubles. And these are not just some disposable things, but quite suitable and high-quality household goods. I decided to compile a kind of hit parade of such super-budget, but very popular products. Many of these celebrities are not on the site.
7. BESTIS cleaning roller. Price 49 rubles. Works well with animal hair, removes dust and fluff from clothes. At our place. A set of replacement tapes of 4 pieces costs 129 rubles. Each tape contains 60 strips - this is more than similar tapes from other manufacturers. 
8. Stickers for FIXA furniture legs. They protect the floor from scratches and make moving furniture more silent. A package of 20 pieces of different diameters costs 29 rubles. 
photo - IKEA
9. MOLA markers. Convenient large markers. 99 rubles, 12 pieces in a box. 
photo - IKEA
10. Well, our last hero... a hot dog. Yes, that same hot dog from the IKEA bistro. He ended up on this list for a reason. The fact is that at IKEA “hot dogs” are cheap goods with a very small markup, which are incredibly popular among customers and sometimes create the image of IKEA as a store where everything costs 3 kopecks.
Such “hot dogs” will always be represented in the store’s assortment. 
photo from the Internet
Add your favorite products worth up to 100 rubles in the comments!
The IKEA furniture brand is known without exaggeration all over the world, and the products of this company can be seen in many homes. The Dutch-Swedish company is the world's largest furniture retailer, with billions of dollars in annual sales. IKEA employs more than 150,000 employees worldwide. Our review contains little known facts about this company that customers are not usually told about.
1. IKEA store layouts have a code name.
In fact, almost any store or stand of this company resembles a maze, which is designed so that the buyer sees everything along the way possible products. Among the employees this layout is called "Long Natural Path"
2. There are secret passages
For those who want to quickly get to bedding, but don't want to go through the textiles, bath products, etc. departments, you should know that every IKEA store has hidden passages through which you can get to any place as quickly as possible. They are usually open to visitors, but they are not easy to spot.
3. Shortcuts through labyrinthine stores change frequently.
This is done due to the fact that clients eventually find out all the secret passages and everyone starts using them. And the goal of IKEA management is for the buyer to see almost the entire range along the way.
4. Walls can be moved
Almost all partitions inside IKEA showrooms are mounted on wheels and can be moved. Typically the wheels are locked to prevent people from accidentally moving the partitions.
5. People usually buy furniture that is on display
Usually people do not bother themselves with a choice and order what they saw at the demonstration stand.
6. Sections that are designed to "empty wallets"
IKEA stores are literally littered with piles of small and practical things that are very cheap and difficult to refuse. The departments where they are sold are called "wallet emptying" departments.
7. Bulla-Bulla
Another way to get people to buy something they weren't planning on is the "bulla-bulla method," as employees call it. Large containers are filled to overflowing with hundreds of varieties of goods to create the impression of volume and, therefore, cheapness.
8. You can take a nap on any sofa.
All exhibited furniture can be tested. The client has the right to lie down on any sofa or bed and take a nap. The staff will wake him up only after 2-3 hours. This is done to make people feel at home in stores, and also because after such “test drives” customers are more willing to buy furniture.
9. People who are aware of the nuances prefer not to sleep on furniture in a store.
Pillows on show beds are changed only once a month, and pillowcases are changed only when they look dirty. The same goes for blankets and duvet covers.
10. Opening packages
Customers at IKEA can touch any product and willingly take advantage of this opportunity. They touch the products, try them by touch, try how they can sit or lie on them. But often customers open the packaging of goods, after which stores simply cannot sell these goods and are forced to send them for cleaning and repackaging or write them off.
11. Store employees are prohibited from offering help or intruding themselves.
Passive-aggressive shoppers are likely to be disappointed in an IKEA store. Employees are given instructions: “If a client needs help, he should contact the sales consultant himself. It is necessary to explain something to clients only if they themselves ask for it.”
12. Books in the exhibition hall are often brought by employees from home libraries
IKEA stores sell bookshelves among other products, but empty shelves are not particularly attractive. Therefore, employees are asked to bring books from their own collections to fill the empty space. As a rule, management asks you to bring books that match a certain color scheme.
13. Most popular products
Wardrobe BILLY and table LACK.
14. By serial numbers you can find out almost everything about a product
The eight-digit code assigned to each IKEA product hides many useful information. For example, if the code ends with 40, it means blue goods. The penultimate digit 4 indicates the range blue flowers, and if there is a 1 at the end, then it is light blue, and 2 is dark blue.
15. Quarrels in the store
Couples who really want to test their relationship should go to IKEA and pick something up. Quarrels between lovers happen in stores so often that some psychologists advise their patients to go to the store if they doubt their feelings.
16. Personnel communicate in coded phrases in case of incidents
In the event of any incident in the store, coded messages are transmitted through the intercom. For example, “Code 22” indicates a payment-related incident near the cash register, and “Code 99” indicates that a child is lost in the store.
17. A few hours before opening
At the end of the night, all internal partitions (which, as mentioned above, are on wheels) are moved. This is done in such a way as to create a large empty space in the center of the store. Pallets of new goods are delivered there, which are packaged until the store opens.
18. Christmas gifts
IKEA is quite well known for providing good year-end benefits to its employees. Gifts are often given out - from electronics to air tickets to anywhere in the world.
19. IKEA sales are growing thanks to Pinterest
Employees of the network claim that if a product starts selling very quickly, it means that its photo and description were posted by one of the buyers on the Pinterest service.
Especially for those who decided to save money on buying new furniture. Anyone can do this.
There is a crush and a line of hungry people at the exit, yes, the very same ones who have had a blast and are standing like a snake for free soy sausages and ice cream powder.
Surely you have already heard the story about food at cost, if not, then I will remind you. The main thesis is “how IKEA, with the help of cheap food, pushes visitors to buy furniture.”
So, it was not by chance that this story was thrown into your brain. Today, even without this, almost everyone knows that IKEA has stylish products, albeit not always good quality, but absolutely at prices lower than the rest of the market, and everything comparable, but of higher quality, costs literally several times more. Those who do not agree may not read further.
So, they figured out how to earn even more money on a non-core service and came to the conclusion that they would sell goods from Sweden to their visitors, as well as feed them. That's how the sale of hot dogs at the exit of the store started. Today, this rather clumsy, small hot dog costs 25 rubles, but you will also take a drink with it, which costs 45 rubles, so in total a terribly small hot dog with a drink will cost you 70 rubles. I am sure that the same cost price there is below 20 rubles. And if you look closely, few people take just one, often two or more, and on top of that they also get powdered ice cream for 20 rubles, which is less than at McDonald’s, only McDonald’s doesn’t sell furniture, and in terms of grams, ice cream costs less there.
Of course, such a price can only be maintained with large sales volumes, comparable to sales at McDonald's, and for this we came up with our story about food at cost.
But note that our fake former IKEA restaurateur is talking specifically about the IKEA restaurant, and although looking at the prices it’s clear that this is not the cheapest place, just in case, I decided on an objective review and looked at the nearest IKEA store, in my case it was Teply Stan.
To be completely honest with you, I didn’t come to IKEA at all, but to OBI for drywall, and remembering this story, I stopped by to review the IKEA restaurant.
And then the first thing that catches your eye is the gigantic line at the food line.
I won’t say that it is very difficult, but I stood there for about 30-40 minutes. It is necessary to make an allowance that this is a day off; I admit that on weekdays it is shorter.
And it turns out that people fell for the story and some of the visitors came here specifically to have a snack. Of course, they didn’t all come to IKEA Teply Stan specifically for lunch, it’s just that there’s more than one store here, there’s also OBI, AUCHAN, and MEGA. There are a lot of visitors, and it is difficult to find a free space in the parking lot.
Well, I came closer to the tape and some prices are already visible, but what do we have there?
So, 15 meatballs cost more than a full lunch in a factory canteen; in some areas of the city you can afford a full business lunch for this amount.
Almond cake with toffee - 149 rubles, in fact it’s just a small cake, since the whole cake costs 359 rubles.
Chicken salad - 149 rubles, which also requires a sauce for 15 rubles.
Well, here the dishes are comparable to a full-fledged business lunch in a chain restaurant.
Those same meatballs.
And a terrible powder soup for 39 rubles, I became curious and took it.
Water, there’s a problem with it, obviously not at cost, I take 1 liter at retail for 45 rubles, I’m sure they’re still charging a decent price there.
And the most important thing here is not to take an empty glass, since it costs the same as a drink.
And then a guy in IKEA corporate clothes runs up to me and demands that I stop taking photographs or show permission for it. I ask if this is a public place, to which I receive a negative answer. The guy insists and threatens security, to which I ask you not to stop and call the police immediately. The guy leaves and I continue filming.
I go to the cashier.
Babat, I can’t believe my eyes, my modest lunch is almost 600 rubles.
And here’s the lunch itself, you must admit, you won’t be able to overeat yourself, and if it weren’t for the diet, I would have taken twice as much.
What do we have here?
I go to the tasting room in the common room.
Yeah, as I already said, the soup costs 39 rubles, it tastes like pure starch with salt + mushroom scraps. I tried it and put it aside, I won’t swear here, but I wouldn’t recommend this substance as a first course.
Chicken salad - 149 rubles and I haven’t bought the sauce yet. At first glance, the portion seems voluminous, but in fact the salad here is “the cat cried”, the only tomato, or rather a small slice, lies at the very bottom of the plate. Several pieces of chicken, radishes, lettuce and greens. You can eat it, but the portion is terribly small.
Dry and cold fish - for 349 rubles, if not for the sauce, it would be completely disgusting. But there wasn’t enough sauce either; here the half-eaten soup saved me; the potatoes somehow went away with it.
Well, water for 59 rubles. Doctors have forbidden me to drink anything else.
I don’t know about you, but it will be very difficult to convince me that all this food is at cost, I know many places in Moscow where, with a budget of 600 rubles, the ration will be larger, and the food will taste better, so they will serve you and you won’t have to stand in line.
As a child, we all dreamed of being forgotten in a toy store for at least one night, in order to play enough with all this variety. Now we have grown up and dream about completely different, adult things. For example, so that we are forgotten in the IKEA hypermarket. This is what this series of promotional photographs is all about. “What if you lived at IKEA?” from Christian Gideon.
The furniture company IKEA has always approached its own advertising with great respect and great imagination. Moreover, she usually advertises not specific products, but her brand itself. And, I must say, she does it in a very creative and varied way. Take or, which is a kitchen on a tree.
So the new advertising project from IKEA, embodied by photographer Christian Gideon, turned out to be very unusual and memorable. A series of photographs with the general title “What if you lived at IKEA?” talks about what people would do if they lived in an IKEA store.
These photographs depict two ordinary men aged from 20 to 30 years old who live for themselves full life: reading books, taking a shower, cooking, doing laundry, sleeping, watching TV, working in the office, going through old photographs, cleaning the house, and the like. But this happens not in a private house or apartment, but in an IKEA hypermarket.
The essence of this photo project is obvious to anyone. IKEA stores have all the furniture and many other products, necessary for a person for life. You just need to come and buy them. And, if there is any doubt, anyone can touch this furniture, use it: sit on sofas, lie on beds, go to the toilet. Although, no, the latter is unlikely.
And, I must say, after looking at the photos “What if you lived at IKEA?” from Christian Gideon, one of the slogans of this Swedish furniture giant, namely, “IKEA it’s our home,” is perceived completely differently.
- This is not a simple list of proposed items for the home. Some people collect them as a kind of design encyclopedia and have separate shelves for them in their book cafes. After all, every new release means new products, new styles, new concepts.
The most stylish and modern items for home
Every year, IKEA, through its catalogs, makes people understand the following: you don’t need to care about the opinions of others, you need to choose your own path and listen to your inner voice.
Design solutions for everyone
The catalog is constantly being revised and new ways of viewing it are being added. For example, an application will soon be available that will open on phones, computers and even wirelessly connect to Apple TV.
Original colors
It is absolutely impossible to buy the entire list, but the most popular products are for organizing living space, for example, flexible furniture, cabinets for alternative clothing storage, environmentally friendly ideas, home office installations, and so on.
An integrated approach to the interior
The range of goods is huge. You can't take everything at once. But you can meet 10 the most interesting products IKEA, which the catalog offers.
10Rocking chair GRONADAL
Modern rocking chair
Simple and elegant design
Traditional Vietnamese handmade and modern Scandinavian style come together in a chair designed by Lisa Hilland. Using the reed weaving method, the reeds were used to create the base of the backrest and seat, supported by a steel frame.
9VARU clamping light
Interesting appearance, good energy saving and ideal compact design– all this provides convenient lighting for the bed or any other place where you can attach it.
Convenient lamp mounting
This is the perfect little reading lamp. It houses a dimmable LED light that can be set for both regular reading and softer light. The mount is neatly attached to the base of the lamp. The lamp is sold in 3 colors: classic white, silver or copper.
Ideal for reading before bed
The lamp helps save energy at home, as it only works with LED lamps. In fact, IKEA only sells energy-saving led light bulbs, which help reduce environmental impact.
8Lixhult lockers
Compact, affordable and durable. They are ideal for grouping in one or more places to organize small spaces in the home efficiently. In addition, they are very stylish and come in four color options.
Universal lockers
Lixhult cabinets will help you free up unnecessary space and take up what you need. These flexible and mobile metal “boxes” can be installed on a wall or on the floor, for example, in a living room or hallway.
Amazing color options
Lishult is ideal for using the space around a sofa, in a corner, between pieces of furniture or between windows. “Homeless” things in the apartment will now definitely find their place.
7Trolley and kitchenette Sunnersta
Can the kitchen move? Certainly! It’s always convenient to move a kitchenette with you when you don’t have time to run back and forth. Moreover, sometimes installing a large dining room is not necessary or too expensive and also time consuming.
Ideal for those who live in a small space, this option will the best solution problems. No bulky cabinets, appliance drawers, etc.
Mobile kitchenette
Many people like to cook food in original ways. Creating an open and welcoming kitchen, even if your living space is small, is a great space- and time-saving solution.
Trolley for additional work space
This kitchenette covers preparation and storage. It is designed for one burner, which frees up space for washing dishes or cooking.
In addition, you can place a small refrigerator and a sink here, and a cart nearby will expand the work space.
6Carpet Rosklide
Like multiple colors? Don't know which one to choose? No problem. The design of the Rosklide rug is inspired by modern art, architecture and, at the same time, furniture of the 50s and 60s. The design process itself was quite entertaining.
To create the rug, designers studied paintings of colors and patterns from that era. They then cut out the various parts, mixed them and combined them into one composition. The final result became a unique platform for furniture in a modern home.
Modern rug with retro style
This rug is suitable for all kinds of rooms. It looks equally good with a sofa, with a dining table and even on outdoors.
6Carpet Lobbak
Modern unusual rug
Designed in a traditional Christmas tree style, the beige rug creates a cozy feel throughout the home. It looks good in the dining room and does not deteriorate when the furniture is moved frequently.
In addition, the coating is quite rigid, so it can be outdoors for a long time, where it can easily withstand snow and sun.
5Sofa bed Vallentuna
Multifunctional sofa
This is a small sofa that is completely adaptable to any situation and has plenty of storage space. Times are changing, and today the living room often requires long hours of work.
For small living spaces, a sofa bed with extra storage is ideal. This is the most flexible solution for small living rooms that you can come up with.
Comfortable sleeping and working space
The sofa consists of several blocks that can be connected for sitting, sleeping and storage. In addition, they can be easily adjusted to any interior.
Sections can be turned into structures various sizes and shapes that suit every family and every living space.
They can be either connected to sleep one or more people, or separated by a small space between them. Bedding will be perfectly stored in the seats, which have a lot of space inside for this.
4Glass dome HARLIGA
Some people cannot even imagine the interior of their home without such an element. In many countries it is considered a classic decorative element that has been used for many years.
The perfect place to store your favorite things
Protect jewelry, antiques, and objects dear to your heart - Harliga does this perfectly. It consists of wooden base and domed glass, which adds a certain zest to the decor and decorates the interior of every home.
3Elvarli storage system
Of course, this wall will great solution for storage. But, most likely, when everyone sees such a system, they will think: it will be an excellent room divider!
The wall is fully customizable, with the ability to change the mix of open and closed storage shelves and adjust the height, making the system ideal for creating extra space for all types of studios, apartments and houses.
Wardrobe wall
Dressing room, hallway, office, living room - it doesn’t matter where the Elavarli storage system will be located. The main thing is that with its help the necessary things are always nearby. This wall is one of the products of the innovative vector of development at IKEA, which creates flexible, beautiful and light furniture.
The system can change height and length, making it a great room divider and a great place to a large number shelves for storing things. At the same time it is preserved full review and quick access to each item.
Flexible storage system
Elvarli The Elvarli storage system was developed with special attention to small details such as seamless joints and invisible transitions.
Posts, drawer fronts and top shelves white give designs fresh look, while bamboo shelves add warmth and coziness. The wall can be easily assembled and disassembled, which is convenient when moving it or moving to another apartment.
2Kvistbro tables
Basket table
Kvistbro Modern, stylish and useful tables. They are ideal for the living room, because it great way combining the functions of a coffee table and practical storage space.
At its core - metal structure baskets made of intertwined rods. You can store absolutely everything in it: books, a blanket and even children’s toys, and each item will be clearly visible. No. 2. Gladom tables
Neat tables Gladom
The small and laconic Gladom table looks great anywhere in the home. It is made of smooth metal in soft and slightly dull yellow or green tones.
The table cover is a removable tray that looks beautiful on its own if, for example, you place it on the floor or on a bed.
1Wooden tabletop Barkaboda
Original dark wood countertop
The unique and inimitable Christmas tree design of the tabletop will fit into the interior of any kitchen. It goes well with light or dark cabinets, with household appliances, and looks great with stainless steel.
Christmas tree decoration is gaining popularity today, so such a tabletop will come in handy for those who like to be in trend. This pattern creates a geometry that is pleasing to the eye.
Modern Christmas tree decoration
There is a lot of dark brown wood in the countertops, which gives the kitchen true elegance. It is made of durable hardwood, so it will serve you for a long time and faithfully.
This method of creating wooden structures not only extends the life of the product, but is also an environmentally efficient use of resources.
In addition, the countertop is resistant to water, moisture, heat and sharp objects, making it an ideal solution for personalizing the kitchen.
