Everyone knows Sweden’s favourite retailer, Ikea, is throwing open it’s doors today, but what should you be spending your money on to make sure you have the perfect night out?
With over 8,000 items in the Majura Park range, there’s everything you need to get ready, entertain friends, make it home after a big night and recover the next day. Here’s our list of essentials from the Ikea Catalogue.
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Getting ready
For a night out with friends, you always want to look your best. The worst is trying to find your way through a giant pile of shoes to discover which ones look the best. Buy yourself a coupe of SKUBB shoe organiser ($5.99). Holding sixteen pairs at once, they come with a clothes hook, so you can hang it in your cupboard and easily see all your collection. A great way to organise shoes by style or colour, so they’re always easy to find.
With an outfit selected, it’s time to head to the bathroom. A great find in Ikea is the ÅBYÅN body puff ($2.99 for a set of three). One of these will have your skin glowing and looking its best. Perfect for the night out to come.
There’s nothing worse than rummaging through drawers trying to find that particular gloss, clip or polish – especially when you are in a hurry. Designed to fit any size of drawer, the HÖFTA dividers ($4.99 for a 3-pack) allow you to easily segregate your jumbled drawers to make everything simple to find at a glance. For barely more than the price of a coffee, you’ll be amazed how much time they save you.
Showered, dressed and made-up to to perfection, it’s time for one last check. We loved the ISFJORDEN standing mirror ($99.00). Not only does it easily tilt to ensure you get the perfect angle from shoes to hair, but its great for anyone renting who needs a large mirror without having to damage the walls.
Okay. Are you looking great? Fantastic! It’s time to entertain friends who are all gathering at your place.
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Pre-Drinks
The hostess-with-the-mostest knows that there is only one real way to entertain, and that is with cocktails. Sweet, delicious and straight to the point, there are few other ways to bring smiles to friends faces than with a fruity serving laced with alcohol.
With the summer coming, we suggest a giant jug of Sangria.
Of course, being the well-organised person that you are, you’ve been growing mint on the balcony in your collection of INGEFÄRA pots. Starting at $2.99 and made in a number of sizes, these are a great way to start a herb collection. There’s nothing better than grabbing your own supply, and there’s nothing easier to grow than mint Hey, it’s practically a weed.
For fruit, just make use of what you’ve got. Peaches, bananas, apples and oranges are all fine for a free-form sangria. Whatever you’ve got piled in your FIRANDE glass fruit bowl ($39.99) will be fine. Just chop them all up into bite-size pieces and you’re ready to go.
Mix up your ingredients in an IKEA 365+ Jug (1.5 litre – $9.99). Complete with an elegant cork lid to prevent sloshing and heavy-handed pours, it looks so good you’ll want to keep in on your bench instead of hidden away in the cupboard.
Pour out your concoction into the IVRIG stemless white wine glasses ($1.99 ea) for the extra ‘wow’ factor.
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Okay, great! The evening is well and truly underway. You look fantastic, your friends are ready and a big night lies just ahead of you. All that’s left to do is crank up the music, chat and wait for the time to book an Uber.
Need advice on how to manage the post-party party? Click here to check out plenty of ideas for when the night heads back to yours, as well as for the ‘morning after’.
