We were passing by IKEA @ Tampines the other evening while driving home from work when Ling remarked that the Swedish budget home furniture store was having some kind of clearance sale. I shuddered, involuntarily, as should any full-blooded man when he hears a woman say the word ‘sale’ somewhere in a sentence:)
But there are often great bargains to be had at IKEA. Our first home at The Rivervale is devoid of expensive furniture. Heck, the most extravagant electronic gadget in the living room is actually the chiller aka air-conditioning for the fishes in the aquarium. Everything else in it we got at budget either from IKEA or from the Beng Tuan warehouse. We didn’t have much of a budget 2 years ago while building up our home, but I’m guessing that in the next few years, we’ll most likely start slowly replacing furniture items one at a time for better versions. E.g. the sofa we’ve got is a cheapo that really needs replacing since we lounge on it whenever we watch TV.
In any case, there are home planner software commercially available that can cost quite a bit. So it was quite a pleasant find on the IKEA web site that they’ve got their own free and downloadable home planner software for users to try out. OK so all the stuff in it is IKEA furniture, and not unreasonably so. But it’s still a hoot to play around with.
The software is available here.:)
We’re glad you liked it.
IKEA will most likely expand upon this concept and provide a full home planning tool in the next year or so. And of course it too will be free of charge!