Fuck Ikea making you put your own furniture together. slavery!

since when is IKEA cheap?
must've happened when they changed their font....

The fuck is THAT shit about??? My homegirl works at the one in Austin and is always offering me her discount. I

'm like, "What the fuck I'm posed to do with that shit? I got big friends so I need big furnitures. I'd fuck around wit Ikea and get sued. No thanks."

I don't know what product lines they're selling in the US stores, but what's funny to me is that IKEA does have quality pieces with a higher price point... done by award winning designers that most of those people up in arms wouldn't know from a mole on their ass cheek.

If it's one thing I cannot stand is pretentiousness.

True style is not dictated by the price you pay for something or whether it has an identifiable name which is the current buzzword on everyone's lips. Grammercy Park or not, there is no written rule that says everyone has to install a kitchen designed by Phillipe Stark or use Jaener glass there living there. It's ridiculous. I guarantee you, if you walked into the homes of some of the world's most sought after architects and interior designers; Emmanuaela Frattini, Michael Berman, Dowling Kimm Studios, an so on...not only are you going to find used items that were picked from trash, but, yes you might find some random piece from IKEA.


...you know, at the end of the day, there just aren't enough fucking Arne Jacobsen chairs to go around and sometimes people need an alternative. What next? People losing their place on the social register because they're serving coffee in Allessi and the lynch mob only likes Paola Navone (for the moment)???? Kiss my ass with that. If I haven't actually seen a pic of the kitchen in question, for all we know it looked great, provided appropriate form and function for the owners living there, and the co-op needs to find something else to get their panties in a twist about. Seriously.

Ah, the rantings of the poor SO amuse me!

Ya'll are too funny. If you love Ikea good for you. But NO amount of namecalling or judging is going to change the fact that Ikea is by no stretch of the imagination a product of superior quality material or construction that buyers in this price point would expect to find in a kitchen in this building. Putting in an Ikea kitchen was like putting a bumper sticker on a Bentley. Taste and class is subjective, quality is not IMO.

There are TONS of options that coulda/shoulda been installed in this place to adhere to the quality standards they agreed to when they bought in the building. There's a reason co-op rules exist which is to preserve the value of ALL of the units in the building and believe it or not putting an Ikea kitchen in a unit does have an adverse impact on property values which are already suffering. You don't want a co-op board telling you what to do or how to decorate, don't buy in a co-op building. Easy peasy. But these days MOST homes in the US in ALL price ranges have HOA rules you have to follow to prevent people from doing dumb shit that messes with everyone's values. But what do I know, I'm just a pretentious person who's personally bought, built, and/or sold 20 houses/condos in the last 5 years.
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Not everything Ikea sells is poorly made. They have a variety of price points with a corresponding range of materials.

MOST, if not all, of their kitchen cabinetry is made of particleboard, fiberboard, compressed wood and chips, and/or foil, not real, solid wood. Therefore, not the SUPERIOR quality materials OR construction one would expect in a $10 million apartment.

And I almost forgot, when I looked at their stuff for a kitchen in one of my houses the second thing I noticed, after the particleboard, was that their cabinet pieces are typically GLUED together. The easiest way to spot quality woodwork is by looking at the joinery method cuz that is a major sign of true craftsmanship in carpentry. That holds true for 1000 year old antiques and for woodworking today. If you've got that kinda money there's no excuse for putting particleboard in that joint, especially when you can put REAL wood, well-made cabinets in a kitchen for the same price or less than Ikea particleboard.

But, since you've already stated that you're better than me, what could I possibly know.
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i had a cousin who furnished her country bungalow and it's kitchen by IKEA. she's an architect and can get whatever she wanted...the place looked awesome

Good for her.

I'm not talking about looks or style, which I already said is subjective, but quality. Still doesn't change the fact it's not real wood or superior quality and therefore beneath the standards that THIS co-op expects.