The US Ikea or the Canadian one?  The nearest Ikea for me is the one in Burlington, Ontario, so I can comment on their use of metric.  All dimensions are expressed in centimeters, however the entire kitchen planning is done in inches and feet.  Carpet sizes, if I remember, are also predominately expressed in feet, with cm in parentheses.  The overall feel, though, is more metric than anything else. 

As a side note, I once casually shopped around for a used piece of Ikea furniture on Canadian websites.  It was a mixed bag as to what units were used to indicate the size.  Sometimes it was inches, at other times it was centimeters.  Because the construction industry isn't metric in Canada, I'm assuming that all the house dimensions are done with feet & inches, and the same goes for anything that goes inside the house.

Remek

On 10/1/06, lps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have not been to Ikea in a while, but recently they must have dumbed
down their measurements. Everything is in inches! I measured my office
in meters and expected to have to trouble buying a desk. What a shock. I
had to convert their measuements into mm to get anything meaningful.


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