At Ikea now

[KAPA]

Every one likes to hate on Ikea and they always say their stuff is cheap and poorly made. Newsflash, it's disposable furniture, and YOU build it. I am yet to have a single item of IKEA anything fall apart on me and this is after more than a decade of shopping there and moving across the country a few times. When I build this stuff it gets put together properly with heavy duty adhesives and I use a drill with the right attachments so I'm not turning their little wrenches for an hour to get one screw set.

I just built an entire toddler room a few months ago and threw it all together for around $500 and the stuff is SOLID! If I would have got the same stuff from some fancy furniture store, I was looking at dropping about 2-3 grand. If you want a piece of furniture to hand down, you are going to be paying 5-10 times as much as you would at IKEA.

[MrPrena]

Every one likes to hate on Ikea and they always say their stuff is cheap and poorly made. Newsflash, it's disposable furniture, and YOU build it. I am yet to have a single item of IKEA anything fall apart on me and this is after more than a decade of shopping there and moving across the country a few times. When I build this stuff it gets put together properly with heavy duty adhesives and I use a drill with the right attachments so I'm not turning their little wrenches for an hour to get one screw set.

I just built an entire toddler room a few months ago and threw it all together for around $500 and the stuff is SOLID! If I would have got the same stuff from some fancy furniture store, I was looking at dropping about 2-3 grand. If you want a piece of furniture to hand down, you are going to be paying 5-10 times as much as you would at IKEA.

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I can't say bad things about Ikea items, because I have over 20 years of experience with them.

My parent's $150 kitchen table+chairs lasted over 15 years (bought it about 1992 )
I bought a desk for $100 at around 2001, and i use it at a basement now. I think I assembled and disassembled (screw and unscrew on mdf) over 8 times since my purchase.
I don't think it will be steady enough to handle one more assemble and disassemble.

I Do not have $$$$ to buy stuff from Scandinavian design, oak express, or other high end stuff. Quality is better overall than AFW shits relative to $.

[KestrelBike]

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I can't say bad things about Ikea items, because I have over 20 years of experience with them.

My parent's $150 kitchen table+chairs lasted over 15 years (bought it about 1992 )
I bought a desk for $100 at around 2001, and i use it at a basement now. I think I assembled and disassembled (screw and unscrew on mdf) over 8 times since my purchase.
I don't think it will be steady enough to handle one more assemble and disassemble.

I Do not have $$$$ to buy stuff from Scandinavian design, oak express, or other high end stuff. Quality is better overall than AFW shits relative to $.

End Of Thread. Y'all f*** off ikea now.

[Bailey Guns]

Well...it WAS the end of the thread.

[roberth]

It isn't over til we say it is over.

I got a flyer from ikea in the mail, I didn't even open it, straight to the trash.

My sister likes that store though so I'm sure I'll have to go there and help her with something.

[buffalobo]

It isn't over til we say it is over.

I got a flyer from ikea in the mail, I didn't even open it, straight to the trash.

My sister likes that store though so I'm sure I'll have to go there and help her with something.

Yea sure, you just want to go to Svens.

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[roberth]

Yea sure, you just want to go to Svens.

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ROAD TRIP!!!! Who is in?

[Ronin13]

I buy my furniture at thrift stores...
I bump into it, clean my guns on the kitchen table and when it is all fucked up I drop it off at the next thrift store, get me a tax deduction receipt and buy a new piece for like $20.
Just sayin...

Okay, I really can't argue with that logic... although a good friend of mine bought a TV from a thrift store once and it broke, he took it apart to see if he could fix it, and taped inside the cover (old tube TV) there was a bag of pot! I'm always weary of stuff from thrift store... also because of this:

(NSFW language)

[spqrzilla]

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!?

[Ronin13]

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!?

Thanks for that Bluto!
I'll say this- I've owned only 2 items from Ikea- had no problems with them, and the quality is not bad. When I move to wherever I get a job in Jan, I'll probably live in a condo or something and what furniture I don't already have will probably be from Ikea- mostly because of the price to quality ratio. Hate if you want, but hey, why pay more for something only slightly better?