Ikea Highchair Silicone Placemats and Cushion Covers On Etsy since 2009 + B U Y M O R E A N D S A V E + Spend $50, save $5 // promo code: SAVE5 Spend $100, save $15 // promo code: SAVE15 Spend $150, save $30 // promo code: SAVE30 We are so thrilled with the support we've received since launching our IKEA highchair accessories in April 2016. You can follow us on Facebook or Instagram for updates and discounts! Report this shop to Etsy Kristen Naranjo on 18 Feb, 2017 Just as described, and beautiful addition to our baby's high chair/our dining room. Will definitely order more patterns to mix it up! Coral Jubilee // IKEA Antilop Highchair Cover // High Chair Cover for the PYTTIG Cushion // Pillow Slipcover clbbelliston on 18 Feb, 2017 I absolutely love my placemat and high chair cushion cover! However the color was different than we expected. We thought it was going to be black and white, but it looks more tan than white. Pick 1 Cover + 1 Placemat and SAVE
dlm10309 on 18 Feb, 2017 Pebble Beige // IKEA Antilop Highchair Silicone Placemat // High Chair Place Mat Loved Dearly // IKEA Antilop Highchair Cover // High Chair Cover for the PYTTIG Cushion // Pillow Slipcover Herbal Study // IKEA Antilop Highchair Cover // High Chair Cover for the PYTTIG Cushion // Pillow Slipcover My firstborn hated every high chair he ever met, until the day he sat in the IKEA Antilop. We were eating in their cafeteria and we couldn’t believe he didn’t scream bloody murder when we put him in. We bought both the chair and PYTTIG support cushion that day and I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy with a baby product purchase. What’s not to love? The design is clean and modern. It’s lightweight and easy to move or take apart. And it works for a range of ages – fitting both our 2 year old and our 4 month old (with the cushion). Best of all, it’s a fraction of the cost compared to other fashion-forward options. Of course there was one thing that drove me crazy – I just could not get that tray off!
Clean up was annoying since I couldn’t just dump the whole mess in the sink. And then, a lightbulb moment – why not make a placemat that fits exactly on the tray? One that’s FDA food grade approved, dishwasher safe, and comes in fun colors to jazz up your chair. And while we’re on the topic of colors…those cushions. We love the comfort they provide, but the bright red and blue stripes don’t exactly go with my décor. So we also created a line of designer fabric covers that fit perfectly on the IKEA PYTTIG cushion. My husband and I are both small business owners but this is our first joint effort. We are giddy with excitement about this shop. We hope you love our products as much as we do! ), Yeah Baby Goods co-owner by night ), baby-wearing extraordinaire, Yeah Baby Goods co-owner Daddy's post office buddy - loves letters, numbers, and fruits snacks, sweet as sugar and oh so much fun Our main product tester - models new products, provides comic relief to rest of team, enforces mandatory break time
Accepts Etsy gift cards How do I wash my cushion cover? Machine wash in cold water on gentle cycle setting. Avoid harsh spot-scrubbing, and use a phosphate-free detergent for longer color life. Tumble dry on a low temperature or permanent press setting. How do I clean my silicone placemat? FDA grade silicone is highly resistant to staining, but some things should be wiped fairly soon to avoid staining (like tomato sauce, red juice, pen ink, etc). To clean, rinse with warm soapy water or place in the top rack of your dishwasher. I like to put the placemat back on the tray while it's still a little wet then let it dry on there. This tactic gives it a little extra stick! What does the Add-On "+ IKEA cushion" mean? IKEA sells an inflatable cushion called the PYTTIG that fits in the Antilop and Blames highchairs. It has a red and blue striped cover that unzips so you can put our cover on instead. Our covers do not come with the cushion, so you will need to purchase one before you can use the cover.
We offer the cushion as a $10 add-on in case you aren't near an IKEA store. What is Kona Ultra Cotton? Most of our fabric is designed by indie artists who earn commission from every sale. Some designer fabrics have been upgraded to Kona Ultra Cotton, which is a soft, heavier weight cotton with improved wash durability. You can find each cover's material in the item details.Over the years, I've bought and built a lot of IKEA products: chests of drawers, office tables, bedside stands, media centers, glassware cases, and so forth. Once, to make a little money, I even hired myself out to build some bookcases for a busy friend. IKEA, as you probably know, is a furniture-retailing-industry phenomenon; millions of people buy its products because they're generally inexpensive and easy to put together. Plus, they almost universally come with everything you need to get going. Almost every time I've put together an IKEA product, I've wondered as I sifted through the bolts, screws, and Allen wrenches: how do they design these things?
Well, one of the great things about being a journalist is that you get to ask such questions, and so I finally called IKEA and posed it. The answer, as you might figure, is rather complex, as I learned from IKEA product developer June Deboehmler and public relations rep Marty Marston. "When we decide about a product, we always start with the price," Deboehmler said. "Then, what is the consumer need?" For example, the product designers might begin thinking about designing a new flat-screen-television stand. Assuming that there's evidence such a product is needed--like a trend of many people buying flat-screen TVs--IKEA will set out to design it. "When we start in the development process, we say we'd like to have a cabinet to hold a large screen TV that's 42 inches, and priced out to come in at X dollars," Marston said. "OK, now we've said we want it to retail at $500, arbitrarily. What can you make, what can you design, to make it at that price?" From the beginning of the process, a variety of people get involved.
Those include field technicians who are able to see what's needed in the creation of a new product and determine if IKEA has already designed something similar that can be mined for parts or design inspiration. Another example is a packaging technician. "They're always part of the team from way at the beginning, when the product is designed," Deboehmler said. "We always have to find the smartest way to do something so that it can be flat-packed and minimize waste of space when transporting." Deboehmler and Marston used a recently designed product, the $139 Lillberg chair, to explain. In the beginning, at the concept stage, the developer gives the lead designer what's called a "brief" on the new product. "We give them all the parameters for everything the product should achieve," Deboehmler said, "the costs, the look, the style group, that kind of thing. Then we have a brief discussion, and then give them time to go away to create sketches...Then we sit down and do the real drawings we work from."
From there, Deboehmler, a lead designer, a packaging technician, and a field technician traveled to an IKEA factory in Lithuania and began work on the product on the factory floor itself. With the Lillberg chair, the idea was to build a prototype at the factory--which the team did--and then to see what they had on their hands. "After many, many days of trials, we thought we had it right," Deboehmler said. "'OK, this is the product.' Our designer was on his hands and knees. Then we got it back to (IKEA headquarters in) Sweden and started taking it apart again, and decided we can make it better because we can fit more in the package if we changed the arm direction." By making a small tweak in the angle of the chair's arm, she elaborated, the designers and packaging technician figured out they could get more of the chairs in a single shipping container, and that, in the end, meant a lower cost to the consumer. "The arm (change) meant huge savings," she said. That's the sort of tweak that evolves organically from the design process, and may be impossible to discover until the team is well past the conceptual stage.
"When you see something on paper, it looks great," Marston said. "But it's not until you touch it that you say, 'Aha, if you turn it this way, we could get 10 arms out of this length of wood instead of 7." The Lillberg chair took the design team about 10 months from concept to completion, including manufacturing time and global shipments. That's about how long it takes for most new IKEA designs, Deboehmler said. An exception is lighting as that requires going through lighting tests for each country a new light will be sold in. Another major consideration in the design process is minimizing waste. "The whole idea of waste is very much embedded in our culture," Marston said, "not only in product development, but in all the various functional (areas of IKEA). We are so against wastefulness. It's very much a Scandinavian thought behavior. "When some of our teams go to factories, we always look at areas where we throw things away," she said. "Sometimes we say, 'Wait a minute, we can do something with this.'
And we turn things upside down and inside out to see if we can do it better." IKEA doesn't sell anyone else's products: almost everything is designed in-house. So how to explain names like Lillberg, Karlstad, Malm, Noresund, Ljusdal, and Tryggve? Deboehmler said many, including the company's chair and sofa products, are named after Swedish towns. "So when you're driving around in Sweden," she laughed, "you suddenly see this town name that's a sofa." And what of the range of hardware that's used to put IKEA products together? There are seemingly dozens of different screws, bolts, fasteners, studs, and so forth. In fact, Marston said that IKEA tries to minimize the amount of hardware used in product designs. In part, that's because many products are made in multiple factories serving many countries. "A number of years ago," Marston said, "somebody had the bright idea that if we narrowed down our catalog of hardware that we use in our products, then we can be even more efficient."
The design teams also look for ways to make the products stand out. That's why when designing the Lillberg chair, the team chose to incorporate what is called a "dovetail joint," which involves two pieces of wood that interlock using fingers of wood pushed together. "It's quite a difficult thing to do on a production line," Deboehmler said. "We didn't know if we could pull it off, but we managed." And the advantage of doing so? "It's a design feature on very high-end furniture," Marston said, "and someone who has knowledge of high-end furniture would recognize that as an attribute." The company is also looking for ways to maximize warehouse efficiency. "We have (only) two pallet sizes," Marston said, referring to the wooden platforms on which goods are placed. "Our warehouses are dimensioned and designed to hold these two pallet sizes. It's all about efficiencies because that helps keep the price of innovation down." In Europe, some IKEA warehouses utilize robots to "pick the goods," a term of art for grabbing products off very high shelves.