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I wonder how they standardize. The difference between IKEA and not-IKEA from a familiarity as well as design standpoint can be significant. IKEA is easy, but I’ve had some alternative companies that don’t put any care into how things go together.
I'm amused when TV or comedians make jokes about IKEA furniture being difficult to build. Like, are they confusing IKEA with some dorm furniture they bought at Wal-Mart? Because that junk is sometimes borderline: "make it look like the picture on the box"
I bought a bed a few years back. It was a continental with a headboard. It had a three step instruction with stick figures on it. Essentially, place headboard against wall, push bed against headboard, you’re done, be happy.
Awful bed, but the instructions were the best I’ve ever had. They felt like malicious compliance.
IKEA in a nutshell. Simple to assemble, awful to keep. Terrible results.
It was not IKEA actually. Fancy furniture store.
I still maintain that IKEA is like that though. 😔
Poor quality? Yeah. It’s cardboard, mostly.
Their hallmark isn’t quality though, it’s affordability.
Agreed, and I'm effing done with it. I'd rather pay more for something I do want than less for something I don't want.
I can get behind this, sustainability.
Growing up we had a sofa from the 1800s. Nothing from IKEA will last that long.
Yeah baby, that's also really cool, wow. So old.
Bet it had new fabric though, or was it the original??
Fabric and stuffing was replaced, the rest was original.
Dude IKEA doesn't care how things go together.
Every fucking time I buy IKEA shit it always comes out wiggly wobbly or something didn't quite align right or this or that or the other. It's cheap garbage.
Relatively recently decided to splurge on a bunk bed for the kids from a real furniture store that costs a little more.
Everything was tight, bro. Fit so good, and everything was just so sturdy and steady. Loved building it together with the wife as well. It was quite enjoyable.
I hate IKEA. Greetings from its motherland. 🙍♂️
That’s the complete opposite of my experience
Yeah, ikea is cheap and doesn’t last. But double the price and it feels the same (wobbly), except the holes are 1mm from where they should be.
Must be some shitty furniture companies then. Should be a matter of paying more to get higher quality.
I was thinking that too. Honestly I think it was all IKEA (but they're not allowed to say that), unless the UK has some major competitor.