Everyone's always talking about how shoddy it is and how your cabinets will disintegrate if they go through any kind of stress, but all my cheap-ass furniture with a piece or two missing is still going strong after nearly a decade a use. Maybe I'm just lucky and it really is all crap, but I can't shake the feeling that the reason people shit on Ikea is because it's inexpensive.
ive heard that theres a bunch of fascism in the family that founded it :sweden-cool:
but yeah in my experience its far far better than the other shoddy, poorly-designed shit that you get for the same price, which is apparently often made with prison labour too
i think its mostly a middle class sneer thing, that its vulgar to have the same recognisable lack table or kallax shelves or whatever as everyone else rather than some bespoke wank that costs thousands of dollars