The IKEA in Sheffield thread

[jossyboy]

salsafan you talk absolute dribble. What has restoring old furniture got to do with an IKEA in Sheffield. They are different markets, they sell to different people. If someone is moving into their first house or want's to change their old worn out furniture cheaply they can currently go to argos, B&Q, or the the supermarkets that have started doing furniture. I have been looking for a small chest of drawers for a while now and none of the above has anything like what I need in the price range I'm looking at but IKEA has. I just haven't had the time to go to leeds or nottingham.

 

I've looked in the antique shops and second hand shops as well and frankly the stuff is as shoddy as it is expensive.

[Lady Star]

it's still going isn't it, just not in Sheffield.

 

Nope - went bankrupt at the start of this year... Stores still trading at the mo, with massive discounts on the odds and ends that are left...

[dutch]

You get what you pay for. IKEA is cheap but it is made with bad materials and not made to last. Cannot withstand humidity and there are many products that will break, fall apart or get damaged by humidity, kids or other circumstances where an extra £20 elsewhere would have got you a lot further.

Some products that don't matter but a lot of it has 50% or less lifespan.

[Lady Star]

salsafan you talk absolute dribble. What has restoring old furniture got to do with an IKEA in Sheffield. They are different markets, they sell to different people. If someone is moving into their first house or want's to change their old worn out furniture cheaply they can currently go to argos, B&Q, or the the supermarkets that have started doing furniture. I have been looking for a small chest of drawers for a while now and none of the above has anything like what I need in the price range I'm looking at but IKEA has. I just haven't had the time to go to leeds or nottingham.

 

I've looked in the antique shops and second hand shops as well and frankly the stuff is as shoddy as it is expensive.

 

salsafan talks dribble! Couldn't have put it better myself! Weird English too, for someone born in Sheffield, South Yorks... Like how they bend fairly easily though - from the notion that Sheffield was filled with independent stores, to the idea that these stores only existed in small pockets, with none in the main shopping areas (Fargate area of city/Meadowhall shopping precinct)

[Lady Star]

You get what you pay for. IKEA is cheap but it is made with bad materials and not made to last. Cannot withstand humidity and there are many products that will break, fall apart or get damaged by humidity, kids or other circumstances where an extra £20 elsewhere would have got you a lot further.

Some products that don't matter but a lot of it has 50% or less lifespan.

 

Luckily, humidlity isn't a problem in Sheffield, as it's not a particularly warm or damp city

[Taz Devil]

I'd like one closer to home.

[Womerry2]

Ikea used to be excellent value for money. We have furniture bought from their "casualty bay" more about 25 years ago that has lasted so far through three sets of children and several moves between countries - no problems with it at all.

 

On the other hand, we bought several Billy shelves recently, and they cannot take half the load of the old Billies without bending and/or collapsing.

 

It might be that IKEA has become a victim of its own success, especially as we are increasingly less inclined to throw our money away on things that are simply bad value.

[Bulgarian]

Some of the expensive stuff IKEA do will last, like the top-of-the-range sofas and kitchen cabinets etc. but as people have said the cheap stuff is just that, cheap, and doesn't last, but then I guess IKEA is like a fashion store but for furniture not clothes, in 6 months whatever you have bought will be out of fashion, so you don't really want it to last.

[L00b]

You get what you pay for. IKEA is cheap but it is made with bad materials and not made to last. Cannot withstand humidity and there are many products that will break, fall apart or get damaged by humidity, kids or other circumstances where an extra £20 elsewhere would have got you a lot further.

Some products that don't matter but a lot of it has 50% or less lifespan.

I disagree with that.

 

I'm not particularly fond of the place/business, but "You get what you pay for" applies equally to ranges of IKEA products.

 

The bargain-basement "student digs"-grade stuff is cheap for a reason, for sure. But, equally, there very good quality items/furniture (correspondingly expensive) to be had from there, and often as not much better value for money than 'specialists'.

 

By way of background, we have 200+ years old solid wood furniture, both cheap and expensive IKEA furniture, bespoke solid wood furniture (commissioned) and 'middle of the road' furniture, so I'd like to think I have a fair idea

 

At any rate, at comparable prices, IKEA's stuff is vastly better than MFI, Argos and Tesco's.

[salsafan]

So you want to live in the past! go for it that's your personal preference not ours.

 

bet your glued to uk gold and the like, sit down with a cupper watch your heartbeat and have a good think about it .

OMG. It is no wonder that people in this city is not creative as such if that is how you view things.

 

People say that they want to get out of financial economic slumps, but you do not participates in the reality of getting out of that. Ikea is a company that obviously will bring in money to Sweden. Will you, and do you support the idea of bringing in money to Britain, OR to Sheffield ? Members of Republic of Sheffield, I ask you.

 

It is not that I am interested in these designs and look backwards. It is the cycle of any industry. When economic down cycle occurs, people will displace their own emotions onto historical past. Buy old things, remind themselves of the past. Retro design has its phases. However, hand-made furnitures sell across the globe to middle or upper classes elites. It is like ownership of antiques. One piece of antique furniture can compete more pieces of Ikea furniture sold. What I am trying to say is that, Sheffield can consider exporting and starting small businesses that can earn them the money to bring back home by exporting to other areas of the world where British Design are now in demand.

 

I do not understand your last comment.