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Ikea’s 2015 Catalog is Coming (So is a New Store)!
By Seattle Mag July 18, 2014
Oh, so very soon, our mailboxes will be welcoming that familiar chunky shopping tome: the Ikea catalog.
The 2015 edition (access it digitally on July 24th at 2015 Ikea Catalog) focuses on “Where the Everyday Begins and Ends,” namely, in our bedrooms and bathrooms. As well as an abundance of new looks—bed frames to towel racks—for these much-used spaces, of course, your thumb will come across tons of pages that address the rest of the home. And you won’t have to wait until next year to go shopping; in fact, you’ll find these items in-store as of August 1:
You can store items inside Ikea’s new Varby LED table lamp ($12.99) and take a seat on, and store things beneath, its Ragrund towel rack/chair ($49.99)
More in store news: Word is a brand new Ikea is coming our way. The plan is to raise a new two-level store in the same location as the original, one-level Ikea (Renton, 601 SW 41st St.; 888.888.4532), a former warehouse converted to an Ikea in 1994. The old store would remain open during construction of the new store, which could open its doors as early as the fall of 2016.
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