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I'm sorry but I browsed the first two of these and they're 10x the price of Ikea while almost certainly not being 10x the quality. I randomly picked a modern-st

I'm sorry but I browsed the first two of these and they're 10x the price of Ikea while almost certainly not being 10x the quality. I randomly picked a modern-styled wooden dresser[0] comparable to the Ikea Malm 6 drawer dresser and it's 12x the price. There are clearly no shortage of companies willing to sell you very high margin wood furniture but I agree with the other commenters that there is a missing middle that's 2-3x the price of Ikea and that's maybe 50% better. Really I don't need some beautiful handmade wooden masterpiece (nor do 95% of other people), I'd just like something that isn't horribly flimsy and soft like MDF.

RoyalHenOil 3y ago
I am in this same position. I don't want to spend a fortune, but I also don't want my furniture to be wobbly or peeling laminate in a few years. Secondhand offers some good options here, but you can't necessarily find exactly what you're looking for. Apart from that, the market is surprisingly barren in this area. I got into woodworking for this reason (using mostly secondhand tools and YouTube). I make myself midrange furniture out of pine and plywood. It's not as fancy as expensive hardwood furniture, but it still cleans up very nicely with some time spent painting or shellacking. It looks (and feels!) so much nicer than Ikea's laminate offerings, and it should easily last me the rest of my life and then some. Plus, I get to make it exactly the way I want it.