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My Ikea Advent Adventure

by Adrian How

Armed with a RM150 budget, I decided to go to IKEA on the morning of my birthday. Why, you ask? I simply had to take advantage of IKEA’s advent deal of the day - Sundvik chairs at RM49 each.

It was a family occasion. We took the whole family there and started out at the cafe for breakfast. Ryan enjoyed the french toast and the fact that the children’s corner wasn’t crowded for once (he’s never been to IKEA on a weekday). After breakfast, we headed directly over to the children’s section to find out where to pick out the Sundvik chairs. Being fair parents, we decided to get a chair each for Ryan and Lauren. The RM49 deal only applied to white Sundvik chairs – a little disappointed but heck, a saving of RM50 per chair made color a negligible factor. There definitely won’t be post purchase dissonance here.

This left me with RM52 from my budget to spend. We decided to get the MULA crane with blocks for Ryan as he was pretty intrigued by it. I knew this would blow my budget by RM7 but hey, in the larger scheme of things, it keeps my little boy happy and that’s more important really.

IKEA MULA crane with blocks

When we got home, Ryan helped to assemble both the Sundvik chairs. You know the folks at IKEA have definitely gotten it right if a 2 year old toddler is able to put the pieces of the chair together. Daddy only had to help him made sure the screws were tight.

Having no way to differentiate the chairs because both were white, we decided to do a little ‘hack’. We had some leftover decals and some lettering that was adequate to spell RYAN but not enough for LAUREN. Good thing my wife’s super creative side kicked in and she started hacking at the unused letters to come up with a way to spell Lauren for her chair. Each chair had the name of one of our children and Ryan’s had four little extra fishes along with a green clover whilst Lauren’s had a nice silhouette of a cute monkey motif.

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Ryan uses it daily to do his art and craft and Lauren uses it often as a walker. There’s more to the Sundvik than just being a chair!

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4 comments

1 missyblurkit { 12.29.11 at 12:38 pm }

i love those chairs. great for adults like us too.

i normally put my furkid on it when i need to clean the floor. and for me…its my fave to sit on it to work on some knitting while watching a little tv.

2 Ann Khee { 12.29.11 at 6:47 pm }

Wow! That’s so creative of your wife to add little touches to the chairs. How does she did it? The fishes and monkeys are stickers or paint?

3 Wimbledon Removal { 12.29.11 at 7:19 pm }

Well you enjoyed your journey a lot, these Lauren and Rayen chairs are amazing, and seems t0 be a like a playing toy for kids,

4 Adrian How { 01.09.12 at 5:55 pm }

@ann khee the motifs are stickers… from decals extras that we had previously. turned out to have a good use for them in the end! :)

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