You’ll notice most responses in this thread are saying “5+ years ago, 10+ years ago, 15+ years ago” but if you check out IKEA prices and quality post-Romanian wood poaching bust, and post-Ukraine/Russia war, it’s like night and day.
A couch in 2021 was $799 USD for a 3 piece sectional, now it’s $1599 USD, and their entire “Solid Wood” search category has been replaced by “Wood + Particle Board + Veneer / Wood-like finish”, as their solid wood category was removed. Now you have to discern every piece by eye and material quality.
Most of the furniture in my home is from IKEA, but imo it’s gone dramatically downhill and will probably continue to do so.
Everything’s going up in price though, seems redundant to cover Ikeas inflation without reflecting what its done to the solid wood industry as well.
For me the modability of Ikea is ideal(ikeahacks). I definitely prefer function over form most of the time so easy to move and adapt Lego furniture is really cool. And I genuinely don’t understand how people break so much furniture if it’s not meant to be slept or sat on…
You’ll notice most responses in this thread are saying “5+ years ago, 10+ years ago, 15+ years ago” but if you check out IKEA prices and quality post-Romanian wood poaching bust, and post-Ukraine/Russia war, it’s like night and day.
A couch in 2021 was $799 USD for a 3 piece sectional, now it’s $1599 USD, and their entire “Solid Wood” search category has been replaced by “Wood + Particle Board + Veneer / Wood-like finish”, as their solid wood category was removed. Now you have to discern every piece by eye and material quality.
Most of the furniture in my home is from IKEA, but imo it’s gone dramatically downhill and will probably continue to do so.
Find any cool new places or sellers that are better?
Enshittification doesn’t just apply to online things.
Everything’s going up in price though, seems redundant to cover Ikeas inflation without reflecting what its done to the solid wood industry as well.
For me the modability of Ikea is ideal(ikeahacks). I definitely prefer function over form most of the time so easy to move and adapt Lego furniture is really cool. And I genuinely don’t understand how people break so much furniture if it’s not meant to be slept or sat on…