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.
Ikea is durable enough for me. The real scandal is that they clear cut forests to make all the plywood.
MDF/Particle board sucks, but their stuff that's made from real wood is good. And it's not that Ikea's MDF/Particle board sucks. All MDF/Particle board sucks.
Watch :wtyp: on 5 over ones for more on this very topic