zozee

You can’t go wrong. It will last longer than you may want it to! By that I mean, you may eventually want a different style or something that doesn’t scream IKEA, but IKEA furniture lasts and lasts and you may feel guilty for upgrading. LOL Most of my sewing room is white IKEA pieces and I do like the clean lines.

As mentioned above, anchor the bookshelves to the walls. Don’t overload them and don’t try to move them without unloading them. The joints will come apart.

And watch out for Sharpies. Apparently my youngest at age 3 thought his bookshelf was a dry erase board.

quiltingcandy

My embroidery thread cabinet is from IKEA and I love it! It is on wheels so I can move it around without unloading it. My daughter left a tall bedroom cabinet that I use for storing projects and ironing items and sprays. She also left behind a tall book case type cabinet - it's too deep to be a book case - so it's more of a very large knick knack cabinet. It's been wonderful next to my sewing machine holding items I need while working at the machine. She still has a lot of her things on it too. But it's great for my sewing baskets and other items I like to display. Her items are over 20 years old and going strong.

sewingsuz

Talk about not moving them, you got it! I have a complete wall in my sewing room of Ikea cabinets with frosted glass doors and A mirrored door on the middle cabinet. The back of one of the cabinets is loose and I cannot do anything about it. I love the cabinets and I have had them for about 12 yrs.

Doggramma

We stayed at an apartment in Lisbon where the entire place was filled with Ikea furniture. It seemed very sturdy. And it looked so nice having everything white and clean-lined. If I was going to re-do my sewing room,I would consider using all Ikea units.

SusieQOH

I've never heard anything about poor quality from people I know who buy Ikea.

NZ- my parents home is very old- 1800's and no storage. People back then didn't have all the stuff we have!!

leonf

Love the KC Ikea store... go hungry. Sweedish meatballs and lingenberry sauce and many other goodies. Store has maps and how longers ( meauring tapes) and pads and pencils for you to write your item numbers. Treasures everywhere. Kids areas too. Parking is under the store on the West side. Big carts availabe to take things to your vehicle. I once went in a nearly empty school bus. I wanted to fill it.

oh more food. hot dogs and pretzels on the way out.

Stitchnripper

i love this. I am in the underground parking garage of the IKEA near me and had Swedish pancakes for breakfast and found some things I am happy to have. Didn’t spend all that much $$ either. And - got some steps in!!

Tothill

I have two Billy book cases that were bought at Ikea over 30 years ago. The white surface is looking a bit dingy, but they are as solid as the day we assembled them. I have Pax Wardrobes for about 10 years and I love how I can reconfigure them to meet my current needs. We had 6 folding chairs in the cottage about in 1989 that have recently developed cracks in the seat backs. Two are still in good shape. The cottage is a rental, so they have seen lots of use and abuse.

More recently I bought a unfinished pine shelf. I cannot remember the name of it, but it is not Ivor. I painted it and it perfectly fits two Iris scrap booking cases side by side on the shelves. My son has a modular desk and drawers that is holding up well after 5 years.

I have not found that their "office' chairs are sturdy enough for all day use. The bolts get loose and eventually the threads strip. I will not buy one again.

I have a kitchen sink unit and the sink from Ikea that are about 15 years old, no issues.

We had a dresser in the cottage that after 30 years, the drawers needed repairs. I got tired of repairing it 2 years ago and replaces it with another one.

We have the older version of Kallix cube shelves that are great. I bought some to make a new cutting table. It is on the project list.

We put Ikea butcher block counter tops in Dad's house. That was a mistake, as he is incapable of keeping them clean and oiled. They no longer sell that type. There were 100% solid wood.

My brother and his wife put an Ikea kitchen into their home. They had a cabinet maker face the cabinets, so they are 'custom'.

NZquilter

Oh, this sounds like we need to make a family outing of it!

crafty pat

We have a new ICIKea here in Live Oak and it is so big I can not go because I don't walk well anymore but every one I hear loves it. They say the food and the chocolate are out of this world.