Congrats on the new place!Raid wrote: ↑Sat Jul 03, 2021 11:08 amBuying stuff for home delivery from Ikea.
I finally have my completion date for my home purchase, which is pretty imminent. I'm not taking a lot of furniture with me, and I'm going to need to furnish an entire living / dining room. I like Ikea stuff; it's well thought out and easy to put together, while still being reasonably priced. What it isn't, is easy to buy. Clearly you can't turn up to the shop in an average car and take a sofa home with you, not that I drive anyway, so large items are going to need to be delivered. Ikea's website is horrendous for doing this.
-Firstly not every item is available for delivery. Ok, fine, there's at least a filter so that you can weed those options out.
-Then not every deliverable item is available from every store. It does not tell you until you've clicked onto individual item pages. Availability for delivery differs by colour / style, so items that show up as deliverable actually aren't, as the above filter doesn't remove items where just a single colour / style is deliverable.
-Then not every item is available immediately, and there is nowhere I can see that tells you this before you go to select a delivery date in the checkout process.
So I put together my wish list over the last few months, carefully choosing by checking dimensions and arranging everything on a scaled plan of the living room. I add everything to my basket to check how much lead time I need to give it. The closest delivery date is in September. I will be moving in mid July, and don't particularly want to wait two months before I can use my living room. I now have to remove items from the basket until I work out which one is causing the delivery delay by trial and error, having to click through multiple pages each time.
It was the dining chairs. I now have to choose new dining chairs.
I know what you mean about furnishing after a house move. It's often best to start off with some old stuff from family/friends if you're lucky, until you can get what you want delivered brand new. There's usually someone I know, somewhere who's looking to get rid of a sofa or an armchair.
I think I gave up on Ikea years ago. Trying out a suite in their store only to be almost laughed at for daring to ask if I could have it in a colour I liked and within a couple of months. Ended up going to local furniture places instead.