McBrooklyn reports that Ikea’s promoting the opening of their first store in NYC (to open in Red Hook on June 18th) with these fun Ikea Pop-up room settings all over town. There will be one at the Brooklyn Public Library on Friday, June 13th (Grand Army Plaza branch). Here’s the PR:
Pop-up Room Settings – Deutsch worked with TH Outdoor to create four 20’ x 20’ pop-up room settings – or living room-sized boxes with complete interiors furnished with IKEA furniture such as sofas, tables and chair, and accessories such as lamps, rugs and prints. Inside, the public can experience IKEA products. Leading up to IKEA Brooklyn’s June 18 grand opening, these life-sized rooms can be found at Union Square in Manhattan (June 12) and in Brooklyn at Borough Hall plaza (June 9), the Brooklyn Public Library (June 13) and Cadman Plaza (June 15).
Your lifestyle or taste determines what the focal point of your living area is. If you have a fireplace, you can rearrange your furniture around it. Or if you have a piano, and this is the focal point of your living area, your furniture could be set around it. When rearranging your furniture, also consider traffic in your Living Room Decoration area. It is always good to arrange furniture in off-square angles. This makes the room warmer and more casual. http://living-room-decoration.blogspot.com
Saucytart – maybe you can open your home to house a few homeless people. Why is it Ikea’s responsibility? It’s the government that has failed the homeless, not Ikea.
maybe Ikea could put up a few of the 35,000+ homeless in the municipal shelter system in some of their pop-up housing, eh?
Visited the “studio apartment” at Borough Hall yesterday, and am looking forward to visiting the store (not on opening day) via shuttle bus from that location and others.