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And part of the problem is that it is so hard to tell if the middle priced goods are worth it. For example: - is it real wood but cheaply finished so the wood
by lbwtaylor 3y ago
And part of the problem is that it is so hard to tell if the middle priced goods are worth it. For example:
- is it real wood but cheaply finished so the wood wears quickly and needs refinishing quickly. Seen this problem so often at priced places like crate & barrel.
- how do you tell good quality veneer from bad?
- showcase pieces of higher quality than what's delivered to your house. Room & board with their real wood furniture can be like this - I got a piece that was more knots than wood.
- sheepybloke 3y agoExactly. I've been looking for bookshelves and wanted something that wasn't just Ikea's Billy. The price jump to something from Pottery Barn is 3-4x the Ikea price, but from the quality you see at the showroom, it should be closer to 1.5-2x the price. I also feel a bit jaded from the mid-tier furniture showrooms, which offer Wayfair quality at 2x the price. I just want something that will survive a move while not having to look at payment plan!
- LargoLasskhyfv 3y agoWhy care about furniture surviving a move, when you can buy and build the same shit at your destination for cheap? And 'gift' the old to your follow renters, or just discard it?
- VHRanger 3y agoBecause wasting stuff is bad?
- jacooper 3y agoWell, in this case its not like you have a choice.
- worthless-trash 3y agoStill bad.
- hot_gril 3y agoI don't care that much about surviving moves, I care about it being nice quality. And the nice ones will cost enough that I want to keep them.
- chipsa 3y agoIkea does have a higher end bookcase than Billy: Hemnes[0]. It's like 2x the price, and I think it's worth about that, given it's made from mostly solid wood (back is still fiberboard). 0:https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/hemnes-bookcase-black-brown-light-brown-20452294/#content https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/hemnes-bookcase-black-brown-lig...
- snypher 3y agoMy cheeky answer is always the bad furniture _has_ veneer :) having said that I have build a lot of "temporary" furniture (eg benches and tables) from 2x4 softwood and they're doing just fine 30ish years later.
- Gigachad 3y agoI've got some things which have a thick veneer over the top of some other solid wood. It's pretty good quality. Many times better than the stuff that's like 1mm of wood over the top of cardboard hexagons.
- lbwtaylor 3y agoGenerally true, but one of my most successful mid-price purchases is a dresser in real walnut veneers over solid wood that is aging fantastically. It's just hard IMHO to know how thin or thick the veneer is.
- hypercube33 3y agoI live next to one of the largest furniture manufacturers in America and going to the showroom says everything - the furniture is routinely broken there and it's rotated out as fast as they can make new models. we own one of their sets of couches from the late 1990s and it's finally giving up but the new stuff is built absolutely for profit margin and to not hold up at all.