IMO there's little that approaches Ikea quality+value for lighting. I went all in on Hue way back when and none of it's lasted (some bulbs died within a couple

IMO there's little that approaches Ikea quality+value for lighting. I went all in on Hue way back when and none of it's lasted (some bulbs died within a couple years), and the current app is garbage. A couple years ago I bought a Kichler fixture for roughly double what the nearest Ikea equivalent cost and… yikes. The build quality was not great and the replacement wasn't a whole lot better. Installation was far more fiddly than anything I've bought from Ikea. I've been looking at Ikea for kitchen cabinets and while there are some shops that'll do comparable quality Ikea has most of them beat on price, drawer hardware, and ease of discovery. I was thumbing through one catalog that had a whole formula to figure out how much your cabinet would cost. With Ikea the prices are right there and they're generally lower than comparable quality RTA stuff from other brands. Plus the warranty is better and installation is less fiddly. There's just not a lot out there that's just a little bit better than Ikea. There's Ikea and then there's high end stuff.