Good Beautiful Morning Tatertots and Jello Fans! I hope each one of you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day and President’s Day.
I am Stacie, from The Three Sweet Peas and I am thrilled to be back and sharing a fabulous little secret that is sure to save you MONEY! It was by mistake, but, OH those mistakes, are sometimes, OH so GREAT!
So, last week I went to IKEA in search of one of these:
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| Ektorp Slipcover |
and I came upon one of these:
..And I thought WOW for $.99 I can buy NEW pillows for my ENTIRE home, I started with four beautifully rolled $.99 pillows for my Peanut’s room! …And so it went, I came home and EXCITEDLY opened and unrolled my new pillows to… WELL, pillows that were JUST as flat as the ones I was trying to replace!
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| New IKEA pillow |
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| Peanut’s already flat pillow |
Oh, the disappointment, my grand idea of buying pillows for my entire house down the tube. Because, lets face it, a beautiful bed begins with the pillows, and how many of us can go buy an ENTIRE bed full of down filled pillows. If we did it would cost $$$’s, UNLESS we take TWO of the $.99 pillows and put them into the same pillow sham.
..And there you have my IKEA hack, two $.99 pillows that look like a $50.00 down pillow. The way the pillows are stuffed are very similar to a down feather pillow minus A LOT of the down but by combining two of them you get a VERY custom looking pillow and bed.
I know this little tip can save you A LOT of money! I know where I am going when I clean out the washer! 🙂 Stop by and say hi, The Three Sweet Peas.
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Ikea pillows wash and dry VERY well. They will fluff up quite a bit if you run them through a wash cycle. 🙂
Love It!! Atlanta Ikea watch out- Frazzled Five Mama is coming this weekend!
Thanks for sharing!
~Jen
I love this idea! Very smart!
LOVE Ikea….I go for the phony fil, I am allergic to down (can you imagine that)! You just inspired me to hit them up for my shams. I have this teeny weeny standard pillows trying to fill a King size sham.
99 cents is fabulous for my itty bitty pocket 🙂 Great post!!! Thanks for sharing!
Very jealous of other bloggers IKEA finds! The closest one to us is 6 hours away! 🙂
genius!!!!
Thanks for sharing the great IKEA find. Love that store.
Fondly,
Glenda
I’ve got to remember this on our next trip to IKEA! I’ve got a couple pillow shams to fill and a few square pillows to replace. I like the affordability of this! 🙂
Thanks for posting it. Your bed and pillows looks very pretty. 🙂
Wow! I love her pantry! We don’t have an IKEA in our area. 🙁
So smart! I actually like my pillows that flat though 😉 That did get me to thinking I could use that for a couch pillow by smooshing all the filling to one side and sewing one edge to make it square. Thanks for the inspiration!
I also came upon these pillows…and their flatness. Good thing I was goin to make tem into throw pillows for the couches anyhow. 🙂 I just fluffed all the stuffing to one side and sewed a seam on the other side to make a nice fluffy square pillow to use as an insert for my favorite fabric!
We’ve done the same with the IKEA Euro shams. Makes for great support at the back of a bed of pillows! Thanks for the tip with the smaller sizes!
Wow, what a great tip! I’m sure lots of people are going to be running to their nearest IKEA to grab some. Hope they don’t raise the prices! : )
Jeannie
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That is a brilliant idea! One of those things that make you think “why didn’t I think of that?”
Smart idea! I will keep this mind for future projects.
Great idea especially if you can find pillows that cheap! Will swing by and say hello over there as well!