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I made my daughter’s bed from scratch out of anger and spite toward IKEA.

by dclowd9901 2y ago

unkulunkulu 2y ago
IKEA? Thats a surprise, what happened?
- margalabargala 2y ago
  They probably noticed the material quality.
- bityard 2y ago
  Some IKEA furniture is great, some of it is terrible. 10-15 years ago, it was where you'd go when you needed a great-looking nightstand or coffee table for a fair price and didn't overly care how long it would last. These days, you can expect to pay a premium for the "IKEA aesthetic" and shopping experience. Personally, the main thing I can't stand is that you have only limited ability to "choose your own adventure" and just go straight to the thing you're there to buy. I don't want to spend 25 minutes wandering through their corporate-curated displays to get to the kitchen faucets. I think they still have a good price on AA NiMH batteries, though. Edit: I am speaking to the US stores, I have no idea what IKEA is like closer to their homeland.
  - Suppafly 2y ago
    >Personally, the main thing I can't stand is that you have only limited ability to "choose your own adventure" and just go straight to the thing you're there to buy. Sure you can, just go down to the basement area where you pick up all the boxes anyway. You only need to browse if you don't know what you want.
- dclowd9901 2y ago
  Wrote it elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41397160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41397160 Nothing to do with the furniture itself and everything to do with their cockamamie order pickup system.
jamesholden 2y ago
I have some freak brain (and IKEA experience) which usually let's me do IKEA pretty well. What was it that happened in your case? I'm curious what brought you to that point.
- yurishimo 2y ago
  Maybe they moved? In my experience, IKEA furniture that isn't solid wood (more and more of it is heading that direction to their credit) tends to not make it more than 1 move. I just got done (mostly) reassembling a wardrobe. It's a bit more wobbly around the edges. I'm not sure if it's because I didn't put the shelves back in the exact spots (wasn't thinking and didn't label them during disassembly) or if it's something else, but once we decide it's not good enough for the room upstairs where it now lives, it's getting put in the dumpster.
  - lolinder 2y ago
    I tend to assume that IKEA furniture shouldn't be actually taken apart once put together, and so far that's worked out fine for us. There are some pieces that are obviously repeatable (table legs screwed into metal mounting brackets) but with a lot of the steps you can feel as you're doing it the first time that it's not going to work well if you have to undo it.
    - abanana 2y ago
      True. Adding a few 2" screws (into pilot holes) makes an enormous difference to the rigidity of their (e.g.) wardrobes and kitchen units. Even on first assembly, but especially if you have to take apart and rebuild.
    - dfox 2y ago
      IIRC when we wanted to move one of the pretty large IKEA dressers that had to be at least partially disassembled to fit through the door there was no non-destructive way to dismantle it. And that was not about trivial things like the back panel being nailed, but about fasteners of the actual structural parts being inaccessible once you put the whole thing together. One would think that going through the assembly steps in reverse should work, but for some reason it did not. I ended up breaking few structural braces (~18x48mm pieces of fiberboard) at the back of the thing to take it apart and replacing that with wooden beams of the same size.
reaperducer 2y ago
I made my daughter’s bed from scratch out of anger and spite toward IKEA. I would have used wood and nails. You must have terrifically strong emotions!
- dclowd9901 2y ago
  That’s pretty good :) For the curious I did actually end up using very similar materials to ikea themselves. Pine for wood and melamine particle board. It cost me twice as much and took me 2 days to cut and assemble. Worth it.
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mst 2y ago
Meanwhile they had to fire their DBA because they kept dropping tables.

I made my daughter’s bed from scratch out of anger and spite toward IKEA.

unkulunkulu 2y ago

IKEA? Thats a surprise, what happened?

margalabargala 2y ago
They probably noticed the material quality.
bityard 2y ago
Some IKEA furniture is great, some of it is terrible. 10-15 years ago, it was where you'd go when you needed a great-looking nightstand or coffee table for a fair price and didn't overly care how long it would last. These days, you can expect to pay a premium for the "IKEA aesthetic" and shopping experience. Personally, the main thing I can't stand is that you have only limited ability to "choose your own adventure" and just go straight to the thing you're there to buy. I don't want to spend 25 minutes wandering through their corporate-curated displays to get to the kitchen faucets. I think they still have a good price on AA NiMH batteries, though. Edit: I am speaking to the US stores, I have no idea what IKEA is like closer to their homeland.
- Suppafly 2y ago
  >Personally, the main thing I can't stand is that you have only limited ability to "choose your own adventure" and just go straight to the thing you're there to buy. Sure you can, just go down to the basement area where you pick up all the boxes anyway. You only need to browse if you don't know what you want.
dclowd9901 2y ago
Wrote it elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41397160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41397160 Nothing to do with the furniture itself and everything to do with their cockamamie order pickup system.

jamesholden 2y ago

I have some freak brain (and IKEA experience) which usually let's me do IKEA pretty well. What was it that happened in your case? I'm curious what brought you to that point.

yurishimo 2y ago
Maybe they moved? In my experience, IKEA furniture that isn't solid wood (more and more of it is heading that direction to their credit) tends to not make it more than 1 move. I just got done (mostly) reassembling a wardrobe. It's a bit more wobbly around the edges. I'm not sure if it's because I didn't put the shelves back in the exact spots (wasn't thinking and didn't label them during disassembly) or if it's something else, but once we decide it's not good enough for the room upstairs where it now lives, it's getting put in the dumpster.
- lolinder 2y ago
  I tend to assume that IKEA furniture shouldn't be actually taken apart once put together, and so far that's worked out fine for us. There are some pieces that are obviously repeatable (table legs screwed into metal mounting brackets) but with a lot of the steps you can feel as you're doing it the first time that it's not going to work well if you have to undo it.
  - abanana 2y ago
    True. Adding a few 2" screws (into pilot holes) makes an enormous difference to the rigidity of their (e.g.) wardrobes and kitchen units. Even on first assembly, but especially if you have to take apart and rebuild.
  - dfox 2y ago
    IIRC when we wanted to move one of the pretty large IKEA dressers that had to be at least partially disassembled to fit through the door there was no non-destructive way to dismantle it. And that was not about trivial things like the back panel being nailed, but about fasteners of the actual structural parts being inaccessible once you put the whole thing together. One would think that going through the assembly steps in reverse should work, but for some reason it did not. I ended up breaking few structural braces (~18x48mm pieces of fiberboard) at the back of the thing to take it apart and replacing that with wooden beams of the same size.

reaperducer 2y ago

I made my daughter’s bed from scratch out of anger and spite toward IKEA. I would have used wood and nails. You must have terrifically strong emotions!

dclowd9901 2y ago
That’s pretty good :) For the curious I did actually end up using very similar materials to ikea themselves. Pine for wood and melamine particle board. It cost me twice as much and took me 2 days to cut and assemble. Worth it.
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mst 2y ago

Meanwhile they had to fire their DBA because they kept dropping tables.