Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 05/07/2003 - 3:22pm.
Archived comment by The Eileen:
Sorry people, I must weigh on on the side FOR Ikea. Yes, real wood furniture would be wonderful. Got a spare $1000 for real wood furniture, buddy? No? Okay then. Have no skills or time or space to become a wood-worker? No? Okay then.

For those of us with only a certain amount of money and a house to furnish and who prefer to spend our money NOT on crappy fake OAK furniture or the other crappy, overstuffed, rejects from the 50's that is the "less expensive" alternative for a lot of people, then Ikea can be a reasonable alternative.

I have Ikea bookshelves and wall units that are over 15 years old and still look decent. The bookshelves cost $29 and the wall units (each) cost $40. I can buy stuff that matches and so I look coordinated. You just have to pick out what is decent.

Do I think it is all good - heck no. Some of it really is unadulterated crap. The plastic stuff just looks plastic. But I just redid my bathroom with some Ikea furniture and the total cost me $300 and looks good and works well. As opposed to the utter boring everything looks the same like it came out of the Brady household stuff available at Home Depot or Lowe's or the even more expensive and it still looks like it came from the Brady household of "bathroom fixture" showrooms>

It isn't all bad; it isn't all good. But some of it is really helpful to we poor people who do not want to furnish in early Salvation Army.

/end my rant with a nod of respect to Mike.
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