Framed! Where to frame pictures in Seoul

The wonderful thing about this city is that there is a street for everything! So if you need to frame a picture the best you can do is to go to the frame street! There are plenty of little and small shops one next to the other and you can choose the frame you want!

The frames of course vary in quality and price but in general I think that they're quite convenient. We framed the picture you see above but also smaller and bigger ones. We have traditional frames but also framed picture with a very modern style. There is plenty of variety!

Often we landed at the same shop because we liked the frames there but the other shops we looked at were good as well.

Usually they deliver the framed picture for a small fee in case it's to big to carry or you're simply too lazy to pick it up.

The frame street

Subway station "Samgakji" line 4 or line 6, Exit 2

Korea - the wallpaper country!

Wallpaper in Korea is very very popular. I have never seen so many apartments that have wallpaper. In fact, I think it's the country's standard. I'm used to European households that use mainly plastered walls. Wallpaper is usually quite expensive. But not in Korea!!!

You can wallpaper every single wall in your house and change it every year! Besides having a very broad range of different brands, designs, qualities, colors etc., the Korean wallpaper shops can help you with the service and have very cheap labour costs.

Originally we wanted to change the wallpaper in one little small room for our coming baby, but then looking at the prices of the paper and the service we decided to renew the walls in the entire living room too.

The fastest way to choose Wallpaper is if you go to the Wallpaper street in Seoul. You can find a bunch of wallpaper shops one next to the other in the city center. Take the subway number 2 or 5 to Euljiro 4 ga  Station and go to exit 6. Immediately at the exit you will find the first shops. It's up to you then to choose the right one for your needs.

We choose a very simple paper and we paid 18.000 Won per roll. For the whole living room we needed 4 rolls. If you need less rolls, the shops will take the one you didn't use back. You only pay for what you use.

Usually you pay per day and not per "walls". They work very fast so in four hours they did the whole living room and the smaller baby room. We only had to move the furniture aside, they did the rest. In total we paid 120.000 Won for 2 guys work. We even thought of doing the rest of the apartment after this good experience.

If you need to know in detail to which shop we went please leave a comment and I'll be happy to help you!

Dodot Furniture

If you search for furniture in Seoul you will soon realize that it's quite a frustrating thing to do. Either the shops are too expensive and only have imported stuff or they sell really cheap ugly things with poor quality.

Koreans are used to shop most of the things they need, online. So most of the good shops are actually in the web!

A nice one that has good design and reasonable prices is dodot. Is a Korean brand but the style leans a little bit on the Ikea one. We managed to order chairs and a table with a little bit of translation help.

They have a few shops in Seoul if you desire to look at the furniture live (One is near Sadang), but the ordering online is the easiest and fastest way to get to your dream furniture!

https://www.dodot.co.kr/

IKEA in KOREA!

I [love] company.tv is a website that sells IKEA furniture and accessories. They have the best prices for the imported swedish brand as far as I could compare to other websites.

Some items are, compared to the IKEA shops, almost double but many items also have the same price as in the original shop or sometimes less. It's worth to have a look at this website if you search for a specific IKEA product.

We bought a few things from this site and everything went smoothly and fast. It's also relatively easy to navigate because some headlines are in English.

If you have patience, IKEA will open its first shop in Korea in 2014!

Enjoy shopping!

http://www.icompany.tv/