PS I Love You

Yesterday, in yet another mad Sunday dash to IKEA for another car load of feather cushion inserts before a massive week of properties to style, I was caught off-guard and I fell in love….again.

Maybe it was the intoxicating aroma of warm cinnamon buns wafting through the air that got me in the mood, or maybe it was the first summery dose of sun and warm weather over the long Melbourne weekend (Grand Finals Footie! Go figure!!), but right there between kitchen and bathrooms I made a B-Line for the floppy, brightly coloured linen and feather scatter cushions.

Unfortunately they were handcuffed to the display and after a frantic search on the shelves below I was forced to hunt down one of the elusive IKEA employees.

“PS” She told me, sending my heart a flutter. The set of three different coloured pure linen scatter cushions were from IKEAS’s PS range of limited production ‘designer’ pieces.

In addition to the first ‘PS’, there was a second uttered from the lips of my friend (after all the IKEA’s all over the world the I have been to, I believe I have earned the right to call her and all her colleagues in yellow a ‘friend’) the second ‘PS’ was far more heartbreaking then the first – ‘‘P.S. they are sold out’’. 

Well, after the initial internal death, I quickly pulled myself together and put on both my ‘designer hat’ and my ‘international IKEA specialist hat’ (PS. They are exactly the same from Melbourne to Toronto to Rome to Newark New Jersey – EXACTY)  – and – brace yourselves – I was able to buy the display set at a discount!!!

The IKEA PS range, as I may have ranted about before, is fantastic. So fantastic in fact, it often sells out. Virtually all of their range, and it is ever growing, is fantastic. True design, not your run of the mill IKEA Billy – so snap it up if you can. 

I will close by saying that I recently had the pleasure of visiting a $24,000,000 property decked out I the most prestigious of all international big ticket brands, and the interior designer was brave enough to pair a couple of PS IKEA cabinets (retailing for $200 a pop) with a B&B Italia sofa worth roughly 20K. 

It takes guts to recognize good design at any price point. Don’t be afraid to see things for what they are and not what they cost. End of sermon.

PS. There is a heaven.