Have any of you bought furniture from IKEA? Know anyone who owns any? Good mail order stuff or cheap yuppy shit? Please advise.

IKEA sells low-price products, including furniture, accessories, bathrooms and kitchens at retail stores around the world. While our core business is the selling of home furnishings, we also develop and purchase IKEA products in relationship with suppliers.

Low price is the focus
Our company vision is this: To create a better everyday life for the many people.
We do this by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them.

OK, thanks for the mission statement, but does anyone here own any?

daPope said:

yeah...it's cheap and fairly sturdy, easy to assemble...cant complain with that price

daPope said:

I bought my bed from Ikea:

It's pretty cool.

ReturnOfDOOK said:

That's just what I was looking at!

DONT DO IT!!!

sosgemini said:

Why not? I looks cool, simple design, nice lines and I bet the chicks dig it.

daPope said:

just keep in mind its not going to last.....but if you like the look it will work for a year or two...then it starts to fall apart.....

but, the price is perfect for throw-away furniture.....

daPope said:

Chicks DO dig it. Unfortunatly, chicks don't dig ME so I can't confirm this.

I have not bought anything there yet. Nice stuff on their website.

Beware! The Onion, that legitimate news source, had an article about this recently, titled IKEA claims another 10,000 lifestyles. The article has gone, but here's a part of it:

Karl Westin is an actor who came down with a truckload of IKEA when he moved from Seattle to Burbank, CA, in 1996. In recent years, he has spent thousands of dollars eradicating it from his house.

"For me, it started slowly," Westin said. "I had a Poang—it's a form of chair—and I just couldn't seem to get rid of it. That led to a lot of other things I'm not particularly proud of. I indulged in Leksvik, Branas, even a Svingen. If you don't know what those are, consider yourself lucky."


BTW I have one piece of IKEA furniture, a book case, and it's a good piece of furniture. So I only caught a mild case of IKEA.

MarySharon said:

While there are Habitats all over the place...

gooeythehamster said:

Hehe... Habitats stuff is damn expensive compared to IKEA!!

I bought two beds for the guest room from Ikea. They're both sturdy and they are easy to clean. Not to mention that the wood smells great! The furniture ranges from expensive and indestructable to cheap and passable. It's your call what to buy.

senik said:

ReturnOfDOOK said:

That's MY damn bed!!



By the way, the nightstand and the lamps that are on it (blue and green things you see there) were also bought at IKEA.


About 20% of what's in IKEA is good quality and nicely designed (at least to me)...worth the trip just to find the bargains here and there.

Lleena said:

Oi!

senik said:

Some pieces of my furniture are from Ikea and the quality is okay. Some years back their designs were pretty much limited to light wooden cheap looking stuff, but that changed.

Byron said:

We don't have IKEA in Michigan...have to drive 3.5 hours to Chicago for that

applekisses said:

ok i like that bed

TheRealFiness said:

You like Byron's bed?

applekisses said:

lol chut it u

TheRealFiness said:

nope

applekisses said:

why i aughta.....

TheRealFiness said:

I'm ready