Hi guys. Welcome back to my channel. Today, we're off to Ikea, so I thought that I would take you
with us, show you what's in there, and what we buy as well. Some of you will know we're currently
having some renovations done, so we need to get a few things for that. I want to get a two-ringed
hub for when we don't have a kitchen and some clothing rails as well. But there's also some
mugs that we love so we want to get more of, and a few food items as well. We do also want to just
get some inspiration for the rooms that we're designing. I thought we would just take you with
us. I've got Matt here as well. It's actually the boys' first day back at school today-
Woo hoo, yeah. ... so we thought we'd
take the opportunity. We cannot even remember the last time we've been to Ikea, so let's go.
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Let's go get some meatballs. Okay, so for this Come Shop With Me,
I'm just going to pick up the camera and show you the things that I like as we're walking
around the store. As we walked in, I saw this display and I really liked this glass covering
here. I think it's called a cloche, but you could display something sentimental or even
a candle or an eye cream, I've seen people do as well. It just looks really special.
I also spotted my breastfeeding chair as we were going around, and they do it in literally so many
different colors now as well. You can also get the matching footstool. In the sofa section,
I saw this on one of the arms, which I thought was really cool. It's like a slatted covering,
but it would fit on any sofa arm. The idea is that you just put it on there
and then you can put your drink down, and it won't damage the sofa. It was 10 pounds. I really liked
it in black. I thought it was really cool. This area reminded me of the look we're kind
of going for in our new front room with a big coffee table, so I wanted to show you that. I
also loved this round mirror. It was 70 pounds and it comes in white. They also had a natural wood or
black as well. I just loved how simple it was. I also loved this for a playroom or a boot room.
You could have toys in this unit, but you could also put cushions on top as like a seat. I also
thought this was cool, to have a little drinks trolley. It was 60 pounds. Or it can just be
somewhere to put a drink down next to the couch. I just really liked that. There was also a matching
wicker footstool with storage in it as well. I loved this jug for water to have on the table.
I don't know if it's for that. It might be for red wine, but I thought it'd be really nice if
you were hosting. I also love these trolleys. We have one it in our bathroom for storage,
but I've seen people make them into arts-and-crafts trolleys. They're only 29 pounds
for this size, slightly more for the bigger sizes. You could have your coloring books, your markers,
and make a whole thing of it, and then just roll it out when the kids want to color. I loved that.
This, I thought, was great for meal prepping. I use one that I bought on Amazon
in my meal prep videos, but I wanted to show you that they have them in Ikea as well.
As I was going around, I was a bit sad that they were literally selling Perspex Screens
for offices. Just a sign of the times, I guess. I was also taking some inspiration from this
bathroom setup. In our en suite, we won't, well, we think we'll be able to fit a bath,
but it will have to be a slightly smaller one. As we were walking around, we saw this bath and
we thought that this size might work in the bathroom, but we just wanted to double check
that Matt could actually sit in this one. We had to test it out,
and he was quite pleased. Obviously, he can't stretch out or anything,
but he is too tall for most baths, anyway, so it was good to check the sizing of this.
We were also taking some inspiration from this walk-in wardrobe. We're having a small walk-in
wardrobe in our room, and we want it to be similar to this with drawers down the bottom
and hanging space on top. I also really liked this vanity unit. I would like to have one of
these in our new bedroom, and I quite liked the mirror on top as well. It was very reasonable.
This is my favorite Fejka of all the Fejkas. We have this in Fraser's room and Caleb's room as
well. I love how it's a eucalyptus color and it also drapes down, so it looks great on a shelf.
These are also our favorite mugs. There's actually going to be a full haul at the end
of this walkthrough. I'll show you exactly what we did buy, but spoiler alert, we bought quite
a few of these mugs. We really like drinking out of them. I know that might sound weird,
but whenever we make teas and coffees, we seem to just reach for these mugs.
Really like the shape of them. I like that they're matte. I really like the stone color as well.
We ended up getting some in black and in stone because we're going to set up this coffee area
in our kitchen, and we would love for them to match.
I was also looking at these coffee flasks, but not for coffee. I was actually looking
for gravy because you make a gravy dinner and it goes cold in the jug. I was thinking
a great hack would just be to have it an actual flask, which would keep it warm.
I really loved these knitted baskets. They were a very good size, and we're trying to vamp up
our airing cupboards. I love the basket section in Ikea, anyway, but I loved these in particular,
and they were 19 pounds. I also quite liked these ones. They were almost like a felt material,
but a little bit thicker. Could store anything in these baskets. I think they were called Pudda,
yes, and they were 12 pounds each. As we were walking through,
we were also getting some inspiration from the art section. There was also so many beautiful
lights in Ikea, but we're not quite there just yet ready to put those finishing touches in.
I also loved this lantern, and I loved this wired bin as well. And then in the kids section,
I really liked this bedding. It was very colorful, but quite simple, like speckled,
but it was weird. We kind of whizzed through the kids section because our boys are a bit older now.
I really liked this tray. I think it was five pounds, is it? Five pound 50, there.
I thought it was really nice. I like to use trays to give things a proper place. You
can have a hairbrush on here or some bows or your perfume. You can kind of like section things off.
I just love the faux plant area as well. I know succulents are not hard to keep alive,
but I did, in particular, like this little set of three fake succulents. I thought these
would look great in Caleb's bedroom, but now I'll go home and show you everything I got.
We're home now, so I thought I would show you what we actually bought in Ikea.
The main reason that we went was to buy the portable hub, but unfortunately, it was out of
stock in store. I actually tried to order it on their website before, but it said it was out of
stock on the website but likely to be in stores. But unfortunately, they didn't have it, either.
But then I started thinking, if you had a portable hub because you were doing your kitchen up,
as soon as your kitchen is done, what would you do with it? You'd probably put it online or try
and sell it. So I went onto eBay and there are loads on there, so I'm going to watch a few
and just get a second-hand one of those. I don't know why I didn't even think of that before.
We also wanted to get some baskets for our airing cupboard. We basically had our water, what is it,
water tank, in a cupboard, but we needed a new boiler when we moved in. When we did that,
we actually moved that into the loft so that we could have an airing cupboard,
which is a storage space for towels and toilet roll and all of that kind of thing.
I wanted to get some baskets. I actually wanted one for all of the Dyson vacuum bits,
like all the extra bits that come. I'll show you the cupboard in a minute, but I saw this knitted
basket and I really liked it. I can't find how much it was, but I will put it up on the screen.
I might even go back and get another one, but I just wasn't sure of the size. I've got one
for now and I'm going to have that on the floor in the airing cupboard with all the Dyson bits.
I also got three of these baskets. They're just material. It was super easy to put together. You
just do up all of the buttons. You pull the sides up and button it. I was thinking this
would be great for toilet roll and then for pillow cases and hand towels, maybe. I've got three of
those because they can line up all together on one row. But I'll show you more of that in a second.
We also got these hanging rails, which is another reason that we went to Ikea.
Very soon, I think actually in the next two weeks, we need to move out of the two back bedrooms. All
of my clothes are currently stored in there, so we need a place to just put a few clothes. We got
three of these hanging rails. They're only eight pounds, which is really reasonable. I've actually
seen a few influencers use them in clothing and fashion videos. I think it was Lily Pebbles,
she has one and she said what she likes to do is sometimes shop her wardrobe, so go through
her clothes, pull some out, and put it onto that small railing so she can have a better look at
it or think about what she's going to wear. We also wanted to pick up a few more of these
mugs. We already have about four or five of these ones, and we really like using them. I don't know
why, but we just keep reaching for these. We like the shape of them. They're a nice matte finish,
and we like the stone color. In our new kitchen, we're going to do a bit of a breakfast larder,
almost like the one we had in our previous kitchen, but we're going to have a drawer under
it that is full of coffee, tea, and all of the mugs. We'd really like all the mugs to match up,
so we got three more of them in this stone color, and then we got six of these, the black ones,
as well. We're going to have them all lined up in the drawer, just quite aesthetically pleasing.
We also got one of these coffee flasks. I actually got this not for coffee, but for
gravy. You know when you have a roast dinner or a Christmas dinner and you put the gravy out on the
table and it just goes cold? I was thinking, you could put your gravy in a thermos coffee flask.
And then when anyone wants gravy, it's still nice and hot. I know this might sound ridiculous,
but I was thinking about putting it into a home hacks video. The top of it here, it has that,
you just kind of push it to the side and then you can pour, and then you just push it back. I just
thought it was quite nice looking and everything. It almost would've been better slightly smaller,
but I'm quite pleased with that purchase. We also got some Ziploc baggies. Obviously, we try
not to use Ziploc bags. We try to use Tupperware whenever we can. But when we do, I really like
the ones in Ikea. I don't know if anyone else has used them before, but they do all kinds of
very small ones, like if you needed it for a kid's snack or dog treats or something. They do
these little ones. We also got a couple of other sizes as well, this size and a slightly bigger one
for freezer meals as well. I also got some new scrubbies, which is not that exciting. I just
saw them and I was like, I could do with those. We also picked up some food items. Whenever we
go to Ikea, we always seem to pick up the same things from the food section. The first thing is
the alphabet cookies. My kids love these so much. I actually bought three boxes because
I know it's not going to last that long. But they love them as a snack. They like
spelling things out as well. We really like those. I also got the heart-shaped waffles. I actually
got two of those because I want to stick them into the freezer. Just super easy to make. You just pop
it in the toaster, and it's quite cute. Be nice to have for Valentine's Day as well. We also got
the Ikea meatballs. The kids and us really like them. Obviously, I only get it when we go to Ikea,
so it is a bit of a treat. They're super easy to make. You can either do it in the oven,
or I normally just fry it in a pan. You can also get the meatball sauce that they sell,
and you can serve it on mash. It's really nice. We also got some potato pancakes,
which I actually do in the air fryer. They're nice and crispy and the kids like them.
I think that is it in terms of food. We normally get a bag of the little Daim bars,
but we have so many treats still from Christmas that I didn't bother. So that is
everything. Now I might just quickly show you the airing cupboard that I was talking about.
If I take you over here, there are two doors. This door will be to the new laundry and utility
room upstairs. Across from that, there's this one, which is our airing cupboard.
An airing cupboard, if you're not from the UK, because I didn't really know what it was before.
It's a cupboard that you have, which is storage for stuff, like it's a total mess, for duvets,
pillows, towels, sheets. We keep our vacuum on the door there, which is great because
as soon as you put it on, it's charging. But then also, it's a place to dry things
if you don't put it into the tumble dryer. We had a little railing put there, and we have hangers
so that we can hang up shirts and football kits and whatever we don't put into the tumble dryer.
We also keep the two laundry baskets in here, one for whites, one for darks. But then
there's still quite a bit of room behind them. This is where all the Dyson bits is, which is
why I wanted to get a nice basket. I think I could probably fit two baskets under there, or I might
even, if I can have space once I clean this up, I might have them on show because they're so pretty.
Also, the three gray boxes maybe there, and then also just have a space for duvets and sheets
or maybe just towels. I kind of need to work out
how it's all going to go, but I would like it to be a more beautiful space. We might paint these
because they're just natural wood at the moment. But yeah, this is what we're trying to transform.
Right, so that's it for this video, but I really hope you enjoyed it. Thank you so much for coming
shopping with me. If you did like this style video, I would love to know. If you just give
it a big like, that's a really good indicator to me whether you liked it or not. And then I
know to make more of that kind of content. And yes, as I said, we have so much coming
up with the renovation. I feel like right now, we're in that nice place
before it's about to get really messy. Obviously, we lose our kitchen in a couple of weeks. We're
going to try and make a makeshift kitchen in my office because the playroom... We didn't realize
that the playroom that we're also living in at the moment won't be livable because they have to
knock through into it, so we'll basically be living in our front room, and our office
will become the kitchen. But I know I'll be doing dishes upstairs in the bath. It's going to just be
a bit of a juggle for a good three months, so bear with us while we're going through it. But I know,
I just keep thinking about the end result, and I know it will be worth it. I'm super excited about
all of it. Anyway, I'm rambling now, so I will say goodbye and thanks again. See you soon.