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Korang dah pergi IKEA Cheras? Yang 20% bigger than IKEA Damansara tuuu? Dengar 20% macam sikit je extra besar dia, but no, IKEA Cheras is really huge as compared to IKEA Damansara. Harap dapat lah menampung crowd yang sedia pack tak kira waktu dekat Damansara tu. (Yeay!).

TIPS 1: Sila bawak botol air jika hendak tawaf IKEA Cheras. Sangat besar, confirm penat along the way hehe. Sprawling 42000 sq mtr area ok?

TIPS 2: Wear comfy shoes too, please. Flip flop senang, aman bahagia hehe.

Saya agak bertuah dijemput IKEA beberapa minggu yang lepas, untuk tour the wonderful IKEA Cheras way before everyone else. The place is huge; more showrooms for inspiration (living, dining and bedroom), spacious cafe area (extra of 300++ seats compared to what they have now in IKEA Damansara) and bigger market place (ni tempat jual segala benda kecik-kecik that makes almost impossible for us to walk out empty handed).

They even have a home setup of how IKEA benefits and be part of our tiny little home. I mean, in average rumah dalam Malaysi (KL particularly) kalau condo and apartment tu, besar mana lah sangat kan. So IKEA buat mirror of the homes and how they maximize the entire space with goods and stuff from the store. They are good at that, everyone knows it.

TIPS 3: Consult them.

Don't worry if you need help as they have a dedicated team to assist you with your plan. For home, for business, look out for installation service section. Tell them your dream plan and they will assist you with layout, measurement and stuff. In fact, if you need to purchase items in bulk, say chairs for your cafe, pun boleh mintak tolong team IKEA untuk arrange. Of course impossible kalau you nak purchase 50 chairs, nak kena angkut sorang-sorangkan? Hehe. Nak setup office ke, cafe ke, or even your kitchen cabinet, tapi clueless on where and how to start, takpe boleh tanya dia orang. :)

TIPS 4: Just in case nak beli tilam from IKEA, make sure you test dulu. Test tu maknanya dipersilakan baring bergolek semua. Tak payah setakat tekan dengan jari. They allow you to baring on it. Still can't decide? Beli and bawak balik rumah with 100 days return policy if so happen the mattress tak suit you. Hah how cool is that?

They even have delivery and assembly service too, with certain of amount of charge to it. But based on my personal experience, everytime I beli furniture IKEA, I memang akan ambil sekali servis pemasangan. Peace of mind. They deliver and they assemble everything, settle. I tunggu nak decor the house je hehe. They even do wall drilling, if needed (with charges).

One thing I like about this new IKEA is this. Dia banyak sikit pintu short cut hahaha. Unlike IKEA Damansara, somehow you have to walk until certain area baru jumpa pintu short cut. And guide board adalah sangat berguna. Boleh tau toilet dekat mana, changing room, surau, ATM and everything else within the IKEA ni, so takde la tertanya-tanya kita kat mana niiii.

Parking space adalah besar. So ni tak payah risau. Well, for this few weeks mungkin risau la kan hahahaha sebab semua orang serbu IKEA Cheras so mungkin ada sikit kesukaran nak cari parking lah, but I guess the traffic will ease soon. Awal-awal semua orang get hype to enter the premise, kena pulak hujung bulan, it's time to splurgeeee.

Cuma that day masa pergi, cafe dia belum buka. So belum dapat rasa makanan dekat cafe tu so that calls for a repeat. Soon soon. Weekdays harap tak congest lah nak masuk IKEA.

TIPS 5: Don't forget to be part of IKEA Family! Collect points for every purchase you made in IKEA, nanti boleh tukar vouchers. :)

So you all dah pergi? Macam mana? Best?

As many of you already know, I've been IKEA-ing our house so much and some even said that the house is like a mini IKEA haha. Ok, takde la sampai mini IKEA pun but yes I admit that most of our major furniture particularly anything that has got to do with storage, is from IKEA. Because IKEA is the only cool place I know that produce brilliant storage products even for a tiny store room. They just know how to manipulate space and like what I said before, store room kecik gloomy pun boleh jadi stylo with IKEA products hehe.

Of course there were few other reasons that we considered prior IKEA-ing our house that time. On top of them being genius in maximizing the usage of space (especially when it's already limited like our hmphhh 1300 sq ft condo? haha), the reasonable price (very cheap for some and quite impossible to walk empty handed from IKEA hahaha kannnn?) and some even lowerrrr price after certain period of time. Well mainly for hot selling items; konsepnya bila ramai orang suka, they will produce more and sell more and with that, they can offer even a lower price than before. Basically supply demand thing, but worry not, never go up! :)

Then sebab ada items yang IKEA offer LONGGGG guarantee period like PAX wardrobe system (10 years!) or their mattress (25 years! basically until the kids all grown up and ready to get married, so beli la tilam baru sendiri haha). But it's ok if you takde those items pun because their normal "100 days love or exchange" policy pun dah cool sangat ok.

Yeah cool in a way that; if let say you buy the mattress, then you used it until day 99 before you noticed that the mattress is just not something that comfort you most, hah sila tukar. Serious boleh tukar ok. But of course item in sell-able condition (bukan dah tumpah susu anak atas tilam semua haha) and with original proof of payment lah kan.

Not only that, the "0% Interest Payment Plan" for Maybank cardholders tu yang penting jugak hehe (and they offered to Citibank and Alliance Bank cardholders too). Something for us to consider when purchasing the above RM1000 furniture lah hehe.

So, activity paling latest I adalah revamping the kids bedroom and of course sikit-sikit touch up dekat master bedroom storage area. Well, since the wife already conquered like what, 80% of the storage area hahaha so kenalah kemas and susun cantik-cantik so that the husband will still be able to find his 20% remaining space. :P

Contohnya MALM chest of 4 drawers ni, I bagi top drawer untuk my husband while the rest are for me. What to doooo, I got more stuff than himmmm. And the same MALM chest of 3 drawers for my kids clothing as well. MALM chest drawers ni macam famous sangat like most household ada drawer ni kan, sama macam BILLY bookcase tu hehe. Tapi for the boys' room I kena guna SKUBB storage box so they can easily identify which part for their socks, hats, briefs and etc. Kalau tak guna tu, memang huru hara bersepah drawer. T___T

And I just cannot live without this wire basket, Encik ANTONIUS nama dia. I couldn't imagine how the wardrobe look like without ANTONIUS-es hehe. Guna wire basket ni, senang sikit bila nak cari barang or nak kemas-kemas especially for bedsheets. My Insta followers kata I OCD which hahahahhha NOT, no I am not cuma in the best way possible I love seeing things organized. But of course I can tolerate mess jugak, because I have 2 boys kan? Mana lah logic kalau tak bersepah. But like I mentioned, in the best way possible I akan organize things because that after all provide comfort to the home especially for the bedroom.

So don't be surprise if you see a lottttt of IKEA boxes around the house jugak. Konsepnya biarlah luaran storage nampak cantik, whatever inside the box it's ok hahaha kalau bersepah dimaafkan. :P TJENA, DRONA and KASSETT memang banyak dalam rumah ni. Tu semua kotak-kotak storage yang tak dapat dipisahkan dari Shilashower hehehehe. Barang I banyak sangat, so all the boxes come handy for my limited storage space.

Oh, I nak tanya siapa sini suka IKEA bedsheet range? I'm not sure if it just me or what, tapi bedlinen IKEA ni jenis rasa sejuk and quilt dia memang buat rasa malas sangat nak turun dari katil. Dulu I guna bedlinen only until last year I beli the quilt sekali sebab lepas guna dekat bilik my adik, I was like wehhhh cool sedap giler ni quilt dia. Tengok curtain pun IKEA, hahahaha macam mana orang tak remarks mini IKEA kan. :P

Hah lupa nak cerita lagi, hari tu I claim my points from IKEA FAMILY card tu. Hah, 3-4 tahun punya hasil membeli, dapat vouchers boleh la redeem dua RONNSKAR shelving units ni for kid's bathroom. Heh, bila nak redeem kena redeem barang besar, kalau kecik-kecik macam tak puas kumpul hehehehe. Bathroom kan the most private yet very public too, kena kemas and bersih kan sebab it portrays the household entirely.

(BYGEL wire basket ni actually kitchen punya item, tapi macam sesuai je letak toiletries dekat bathroom ni hehe)

(KNODD bin with lid. Instead using it as a dustbin, guna untuk store cleaning iteams)

So, ada rasa nak pergi IKEA sekarang? :P Quite a lengthy post hahaha, sekarang Shilashower nak pergi sambung kemas baju Adam and Aiman. No folding required (read: lazy) kita guna hanger saje. Hehehe.

Nah, I share sikit what I have done to the kids room recently. ;)

For more tips and idea on bedroom and bathroom furniture and storage, visit IKEA.my/peribadi or watch the video below to see how IKEA can help 'Improve your Private Life'. :)