The Ikea Effect: what you make is good
NPR discusses the "Ikea Effect" where people believe that the fruit of their labor is good. This must apply to books too!
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/06/171177695/why-you-love-that-ikea-table-even-if-its-crooked
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I would kill for this livingroom!!! We have way too many books and not enough bookshelves.
nice room, still not enough shelves for my books… they have some crazy setups for bookshelves at ikea though, actually have to stop myself from buying because i keep changing my mind.
I don't like the build quality of most furniture.
I know that it gives me pleasure to have a calculator on my phone that behaves exactly the way I want, because I built it myself.
I dislike upper class anti-IKEA snobbery, though, which is implicit in the article.
Really interesting story. It reminds me that I should get outsiders opinions more on my design work before I decide to gloat.
Wish my house looked that good.
Also applies to children.
Also applies to children.
You have books??? printed on paper???LUDDITE!!!!, (hee hee, so am I)
You have books??? printed on paper???LUDDITE!!!!, (hee hee, so am I)
pretty
pretty
wow
I love this–both Ikea and DIY stuff and the conversation about the Ikea effect. There is some truth that investing ourselves and our time into a project makes us love the project.
Intuitively this makes sense. I wonder if this explains the success of my employer. We ask customers to build systems from component products. We also offer turn-key solutions, but this is a relatively small part of our business.
Keep it minimal. Get an e reader or tablet. Use your walls for a Wifi NAS and you'll be good to go.
Great,well organized…..cool
Ok I want a room like this.
I like some of Ikea's designs but quite a lot of their stuff isn't really quality for the price (here in Malaysia) and just screwing furniture together is not "really" DIY. I like to DIY some stuff but it is usually to recycle something that would be wasted if thrown out. Doesn't make me proud to spend quite a bit of time and end up with something less nice than ready built items YMMV
James Woo, it's nice if you're "handy", as my father was, he had all the tools to repair a vast array of things, he even had an arc welder. I'm not that way, there some things I can do, I've always done most of the repair work on my cars, I can install and repair drywall, and I can do electrical wiring. On the other hand, my plumbing work always leaks, I have tried and failed at carpentry many times..
A small room can look so good.
Hi +Ronald Woodhouse thanks for adding to the conversation. Your DIY skills are far ahead of mine. Just the other day, I replaced 2 wall sockets & that took several hours (with a some ***words thrown in) because the darn wires was a bit too short. Some people can make really nice furniture, sadly I'm not one of them :-)