KRAMA Figures Out How To Get Your IKEA Furniture Home
It’s hard not to love IKEA South Philly, especially as someone that’s moved 3 times in the last 4 years. Inevitably there are those purchases you simply need to make, but you had no idea the resulting combined space of all those furniture boxes would be larger than the available space in your tiny car.
This is why Steve Paxton designed KRAMA, it’s described as:
“Basically it’s a web based application that allows the user to select his or her car both make and model and then select the items of furniture they intend on buying before the visit or the items of furniture they have bought after the visit. The computer then calculates the best combination and order in which the boxes should be packed into the car this would be shown visually as a flash animation and also the user could print off a step by step guide on the best way to pack his or her car for that specific trip to IKEA. The hope is that a better packed a car will free up what i like to call stowaway space for those odd impulse buys such as a 4ft tall cactus (thanks mum). A better packed car also prevents needless store to home deliveries that increase your carbon footprint. Krama ( Swedish word for squeeze )”
How frakkin’ convenient. I could have saved at least $200 from impulse home delivery decisions if I knew in advance what I could and couldn’t fit. Excellent idea, Steve!
This could have helped me on more than 1 occasion.