Ikea

[Zeke]

I built custom cabinets around IKEA specs and bought their drawers, etc. You can't beat the price and the quality is pretty good. Nothing has failed in 2 years and believe me my wife has every one over loaded.

[john70t]

As a landlord, walking through the store and seeing the 10'x10' apartments are an interesting test case for design.
It is so cool how they fit so much together.
My kitchen is small but with the layout I can actual cook simple meals faster than in a large one.
Always looking for new ideas.

For cheap small area rugs I liked these https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40322032/

[vash]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I could not disagree more. I moved from a modern kitchen with all drawers under the counters with modern soft close, heavy duty drawer slides with smooth action to a 25 year old kitchen with doors under the counters and 20th century drawer slides on the drawers. What a pain. I would put good cabinetry right up there with a good 'fridge. I would rather have my LG refrigerator and decent cabinetry that a Sub Zero and cheap cabinets.

Huh? IKEA has all the modern frills. All of them. Not understanding this. The material is the $saver.

[A930Rocket]

I’ve been to one ikea to get a few items when we dropped our son off at college his freshman year.

Never again.

[livi]

IMO IKEA has improved tremendously over the years. Not least the quality of their products. Nowadays it is actually not that rare to find that there are no pieces missing in the package.

[Holger]

LOL
And the bit is now for right AND left turning! Thats new 2018!

To be honest, to much unhealthy stuff in the materials. We do not use it for children at all.

[aschen]

I always use blue loctite on any metal on metal threading for flat pack furniture.

[motion]

I love Ikea stuff. I remember the days of spending big $$$ on furniture at Thomasville, Ethan Allen, etc. Instead of $5K for a sofa, you can buy a nice one that does the job for $1K at Ikea. Use it for a few years, then sell on Craigslist for 50% of your purchase price, then buy another one to refresh your living room's look. No more being stuck with the sofa for 20 years just because you paid big $$$ for it. I have a buddy who was complaining that his wife spent $250K on furniture for their home.... every 2 years. GAWD, I'm so glad that my wife and I aren't slaves to expensive furniture. I'd rather use those fun tickets for an adventure.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by motion

I love Ikea stuff. I remember the days of spending big $$$ on furniture at Thomasville, Ethan Allen, etc. Instead of $5K for a sofa, you can buy a nice one that does the job for $1K at Ikea. Use it for a few years, then sell on Craigslist for 50% of your purchase price, then buy another one to refresh your living room's look. No more being stuck with the sofa for 20 years just because you paid big $$$ for it. I have a buddy who was complaining that his wife spent $250K on furniture for their home.... every 2 years. GAWD, I'm so glad that my wife and I aren't slaves to expensive furniture. I'd rather use those fun tickets for an adventure.

Really stupid to buy any new furniture, especially 2wice or more. I have only new appliances and mattresses. Everything else is either a genuine antique or some clever Goodwill purchase. Antiques are not a good investment any longer unless you're competing with the Smithsonian. The millennials are not interested but they will buy mid century modern (hot right now) so antiques are way down in value. Anything rather large and you can get it almost free. This includes very nice dining room sets. Most just don't have the room.

So you can pick up really well built estate furniture for a dime on the dollar. In the case of aforementioned Ethan Allen, much less.

[Sunroof]

Every IKEA store has near the checkout area a large set of parts bins that has every fitting, screw, dowel, etc, etc, in case you need extra parts. I have purchased and assembled several IKEA pieces for the kids room that have held up very well. My son installed IKEA kitchen cabinets that look great and have held up as well. But, I did buy a few lamps that had rheostats for dimming that have failed! I stay away from anything electronic sold at IKEA.

Its a fun store to go through and best of all the food sold in the in-store restaurant is quite good.

[Don Ro]

^^^
Local Ikea sells great frozen Swedish meat balls near the checkout area.