Building Your Own Couch Potato Lounge

June 1st, 2006 | by: Peter |

My expat sister came to visit from Germany a few days ago and brought with her the World Cup themed IKEA catalogue. It’s in German so I might be losing things in translation, but it seems to include not only those match viewing staples of couches and TV stands, but some special World Cup viewing accessories. Some highlights from the back pages include:

Beer Hangers: A canvas pouch for the side of your couch with pockets for the remote and two beers, or if you’re like us, three beers.

A couch sized rubber band ball: I don’t think it’s for sale, but it’s being kicked by a house sized amalgamation of IKEA furniture fastened together to form a footballer. I don’t know what kind of power having a bookcase for a knee gives you, but this thing will probably hold up better than John O’Brien.

Sock Frame: It’s a picture frame with a sock in it hanging on a wall. Is IKEA trying to make a subtle joke about American “Soc”cer? I don’t get it, but I don’t speak German.

World Cup themed ice cube trays: the best part about this one is that in the catalogue there is a guy holding the ice cube tray to his head looking hung over. We feel you, buddy.

International Football News – World Cup Blog RSS Feed

http://sean.keener.org Sean

Order us some…or where do we order. Gr8 find young lad.
http://ecuador.worldcupblog.org/ Trent

A sock frame? All I can say is, It’s about time! All these years with no reliable, classy way to show off a single sock to my guests and acquaintances.

This is just like that day I discovered the eraser cozy. Or the chair belittler.
zé

Sean: you can always rely on Ikea’s website:

http://www.ikea.com/ms/de_DE/local_home/homeshopping.html

Click on the banner, and a popup will open with pictures of everything Peter has mentioned.
Jessie

Ikea. Tinker toys for adults … in any language.