23 Items We’ve All Bought From IKEA. Possibly Multiple Times

Are you a Billy or a Kallax kinda person though?

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by Rhiannon Evans |
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When you're sitting around your home for days on end, with little distraction beyond Connell's Chain and a slice of banana bread, you get to LOOKING AT EVERYTHING.

There's not much we know for sure, but we feel like we're going to likely all want to be doing a lot of homes shopping as and when we can. If we're not already online.

When we do it, let's face it, we'll start on Instagram, but we'll end up at IKEA.

And there's no shame here - it's practical, reasonably priced and can be easily customised should you wish to.

Also, given most of us are living in smaller (and often rented) homes, they're kings of making EVERYTHING into storage. And we can't even talk about the bit at the end where everything is less than £1.50, but you somehow spend £167, because we're too excited...

So, if you're a fan, sorry, because we're ALL FANS, let's face it - here are 23 items you, your friends and every person you've hooked up with has bought from IKEA...

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Skold rug

Did you even go to university if you didn't have this rug?

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Stockholm cushion

They come in various colours too…

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Bevara clips

You will always need more of these. How? Why? But you will.

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Pokal glasses

Personally, these are a bit small for my squash (and gin), but still…

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Glimma tealights

You always need them, don't you though?

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Malm chest of drawers

Or Malm literally everything, as Senior Beauty Assistant Emma Stoddart notes. How many fights have you had making one of these?

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Kallax

'The shelves that everyone I know has are the Kallax ones, because they can also be drawers. Sorry Billy!' says Deputy Editor Rosamund Dean. STORAGE, what did we tell you?

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HOL acacia side table

IT DOUBLES AS STORAGE! How many drinks have you lifted from this table? Were there blankets inside too?

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Antagen scrubbers

They're just handy, aren't they huns?

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Duktig play kitchen

'There aren't many parents houses without one of these,' says Picture Director, Nathan Higham.

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Pruta Tupperware

17 of these – and you will use only three. Because you will never take six almonds to work like you think you will.

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Poang chair

The great divide – people who still say these are comfortable and those that know the truth.

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Ordning utensil holder

Like, where else would you put the 298 utensils you own – four of which you actually use?

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Lack TV stand

£9. £9. Yeah, that's why we all have it. You might've had the coffee table or side table too.

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Skubb drawer tidy

When you wanna Kondo, but on a low budget.

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Sommarfint glasses

I mean, they're just instagrammable, aren't they? And THIS is how you spend £459 on things that cost £1.

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Billy bookcase

Why buy anything else? No, really.

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Antilop high chair

It's like a right of passage, in return for birthing a child, you get to tell someone else birthing a child, 'Don't bother getting an expensive one, this is PERFECT and CHEAP.'

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Alvine Kvist Duvet

'I'm pretty certain every single girl when they moved away to uni got this bedding,' says Fashion Assistant Charlotte Pavitt.

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Krabb Mirror

AKA 'that wavy mirror'…

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Skurar plant holder

Because when you get to that bit at the end and pick up seven plants, they need a matching pot. Or, as Senior Picture Researcher Shana Lynch says: 'This plant pot that everyone used for makeup brushes at uni.'

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Hemnes chest of drawers

'EVERYWHERE' says Beauty Director Joely Walker, who has clearly never been to a Malm lovers house.

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Hemnes day bed

For new parents who know they've had to convert their one spare bedroom into a nursery and kid themselves that they'll use this for the friends and guests they'll still have. Actually, it'll be used to constantly cuddle a teething baby to sleep. Soz.

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