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Re: Hacking IKEA Furniture

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Post by mastermage »

bborud wrote: post #69

An architect friend of mine once said that he admired IKEA above all other furniture manufacturers because it made a modern range of aesthetics available to the masses. IKEA had done more to evolve the public taste than any other manufacturer. And I do have to agree. I can remember what ghastly furniture most shops used to have around here. There was a lot of what we call "cabin furniture" - which isn't made to look…

Ok so i have varied opinion on this. IKEA is great for getting some stuff quickly and you know what to expect.

The big problem I have with Ikea is it creates a sort of disposable Furniture Industry because quite often people will throw their Ikea Stuff away after the first or second moving. Or not even take it with them. Because it is so easy to get and so cheap.

Re: Hacking IKEA Furniture

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Post by llljk »

engineer_22 wrote: post #144
unsupp0rted wrote: post #136

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I don’t understand this at all. Everybody has my phone and my AirPods, or a model close to them, and that’s fine. I don’t need my AirPods to have a monogamous relationship with me.

To be truly fashionable, one must be /ahead/ of fashion

isn't that silly? unless you're building your furniture from scratch yourself, you're never ahead

Re: Hacking IKEA Furniture

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Post by llljk »

clickety_clack wrote: post #125
MomsAVoxell wrote: post #123

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>IKEA had done more to evolve the public taste than any other manufacturer. I have lived and worked around a fair chunk of the western world, establishing my local headquarters each time, building myself a home. Long, long ago, I gave up on IKEA for everything except cookware and meatballs. The reason? I grew rapidly tired with seeing my living room everywhere. Move across the US, get invited over for dinner with new…

IKEA is fine when you’re just starting out, but after years, you realize that it’s got a shelf life. Good furniture really is better. You can get great stuff for very reasonable prices on Craigslist and Facebook marketplace, and it’s much more solid, durable and interesting than the cookiecutter ikea stuff.

ikea has solid wood furniture that'll last 10+ years no problem

Re: Hacking IKEA Furniture

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Post by teiferer »

cannonpr wrote: post #184
teiferer wrote: post #150

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> I’m looking forward to inheriting some of my parents furnitures and getting rid of some of the ikea crap.. I think you are confusing the perspective of the GP here. Your perspective is that of the "kid". You like the parents' furniture and eventually want to use them and that's all fine. But GP is describing the parent perspective which, they argue, shouldn't be to plan life such that the kids will be inheriting an…

This is a complex topic and I’m not going to do it justice in a comment, but I feel like modern society might just be destroying social mobility in the name of what you described, while the already rich are dynasty building just fine as usual via a variety of legal means only available to them selves.

Could you elaborate on which aspect you consider to be destroying social mobility?

Re: Hacking IKEA Furniture

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Post by mastermage »

hasperdi wrote: post #135
guax wrote: post #132

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> Nitpick but solid wood furniture does not weigh more than the particleboard furniture from Ikea. What is this special space time dilation wood you found? If its made of hardwood it will be a lot heavier. If it weights similarly and its solid wood is usually very soft and will live as long or less than IKEA furniture.

100% wood is way heavier, even the lighter variant. Interesting note... I recently disassembled an IKEA cupboard from 1999 made from MDF. It was definitely much heavier than their MDF products (eg. Metod kitchen cabinets) from today.

There has been quite some changes on the construction of IKEA furniture within the last 30 years. There was an interesting video that I cant remember the name anymore about this.

Re: Hacking IKEA Furniture

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Post by htgb »

cromka wrote: post #141
NegativeLatency wrote: post #82

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The finger jointed pine stuff is much more robust than the mdf or hardboard products.

IKEA does stuff not out of MDF and cardboard?

In case you're not just being sarcastic, stuff like Ivar.

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/ivar-cabinet-pine-40033763/

Re: Hacking IKEA Furniture

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Post by mrmlz »

bmez wrote: post #90
katsukare- wrote: post #43

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In Europe a CNC, or at least good and repeatable saw is available at large hardware stores. You can get any product cut to any shape precisely as long as it's a rectangle. I've not noticed one that offers more than this such as drilling holes. But even if you were to get the wood cut and prepared perfectly, there's still a lot of skill to turn that into nice desk for example, with good joinery, veneer on exposed end…

I live in Europe, never ever seen a CNC in a hardware store. I ordered my kitchen fronts from such a place, to fit on … an IKEA kitchen. Giving it a different look, but the benefits of standardised units and the IKEA universe. This was customised mass-production, but still about 3x IKEA price point.

Bauhaus has huge saws that they use to cut particle boards. They are not routers so i don't think they would do the cutout for a sink however.

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Post by jitbit »

MomsAVoxell wrote: post #123
bborud wrote: post #69

An architect friend of mine once said that he admired IKEA above all other furniture manufacturers because it made a modern range of aesthetics available to the masses. IKEA had done more to evolve the public taste than any other manufacturer. And I do have to agree. I can remember what ghastly furniture most shops used to have around here. There was a lot of what we call "cabin furniture" - which isn't made to look…

>IKEA had done more to evolve the public taste than any other manufacturer. I have lived and worked around a fair chunk of the western world, establishing my local headquarters each time, building myself a home. Long, long ago, I gave up on IKEA for everything except cookware and meatballs. The reason? I grew rapidly tired with seeing my living room everywhere. Move across the US, get invited over for dinner with new…

This comment is (mostly) AI generated.

Which is funny because it complains about the lack of originality

Re: Hacking IKEA Furniture

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Post by selfhoster1312 »

llljk wrote: post #213
clickety_clack wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IKEA is fine when you’re just starting out, but after years, you realize that it’s got a shelf life. Good furniture really is better. You can get great stuff for very reasonable prices on Craigslist and Facebook marketplace, and it’s much more solid, durable and interesting than the cookiecutter ikea stuff.

ikea has solid wood furniture that'll last 10+ years no problem

Yes, the problem is durability before Ikea was counted in centuries. Sure, this or that furniture may need to refit the hinges or refill the cushions every few decades, but your local handyman/handywoman would do it for cheap and the furniture would be well for some more decades.

That, and apart from the tiny unfortunate period during which everything had to be leaded or mixed with uranium, your traditional furniture will degrade gracefully over time and not poison your entire family. Ikea-like (not just Ikea) furniture is already full of toxic chemicals.

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