To not replace all my IKEA stuff

We have a mixture. Daughters room set all ikea. Lounge 1 item, actually reflecting on it I have replaced a lot of ikea! I'm 57 now so I guess that's why. Great functional furniture though that served us well.

We bought loads of Ikea furniture when we moved into our house as it was much bigger than our tiny flat and had to kit jt all out on a budget. It has all now been replaced but only as and when we’ve done the house up. And it’s largely been replaced by built in solid wood furniture which can be painted if and when we want to redecorate but it’s just very classic/plain in style so should in theory last us until we move/die!
Still have quite a lot of the kitchen implements and roasting trays etc and have had them for going on 20 years now and they’re still in great condition .
I don’t notice much snobbiness about ikea but I don’t think anyone else in my family would turn there as their first port of call for buying furniture and I wouldn’t either now we have an established home, more likely to either build it or buy a one off item somewhere. Was a godsend for kitting dd out for uni though!

Our kitchen is MFI, it's still going 27 years later.

I’ve got loads of IKEA furniture in my house. I’ve even got Malm chest of drawers and Billy bookcases that have survived more than one house move.

I’m not going out to replace perfectly good furniture just for the sake of it.

I love IKEA!

My Swedish SIL said the names of the products make her laugh.

I was chatting to an assistant at my local IKEA while waiting for my order and she told me they only get a 15% staff discount. I guess they don't want their staff buying for all and sundry with their discount!

Everything I have needed furniture (apart from sofas), ikea have made it in the right size, relatively inexpensive ly and available right away.

Pretty much my entire house is IKEA, I love it. Mixed in with a few other pieces I doubt you could tell, well maybe you could, but I don't care. It's my preferred aesthetic, my home not anyone else's, and I don't wish to purchase new stuff just because, as that's terrible for the environment. We do have an ancient kitchen table from there that DH hates & is looking worn now, so we will be replacing that soon. I think it shows a lack of imagination if you think that IKEA is just for starter homes.

Snobby about IKEA? We still use some MFI!
I get the remark about nice to think we can chose not to have to buy the cheapest. We are at that point now but what to buy that is better but without going up to astronomically priced items.

I live ten minutes away from an IKEA, store so I'd say approx. 30% of my stuff is from there. The original plan when we moved in was to get a few bits to tide us over then replace them as time went on, but we've not needed to. All of our chests of drawers are Malm, as are all of my children's beds - they were cheap and have lasted well, and fit in with the decor. All of my everyday cutlery and drinking glasses are from there because it's cheap and easily replaced when bits go missing. I love it!

Hmm. A relative or mine works fairly high up at Ikea in Sweden, their house is stunning but I don’t think they have a single piece of Ikea furniture apart from wardrobes even though the discount is pretty good.
I honestly do not think wealthy people here have lots of Ikea stuff. It’s at least not something I’ve seen. Not even in their summer houses/cottages.

I buy what I like from where I like. As a result my furniture is a mixture of...

Independent shops
John Lewis
Wayfare
Oak Furniture Land
Homebase
Dreams/Bensons
A warehouse
Second hand shops
And...... IKEA

I have / have had four Pax units, ranging between about 12 and eight years old, and I don't have a bad word to say about them. All but one have been dismantled and re-built several times and they're still going strong. Currently two are still in my home and two were recently sold to other people. What's not to like?

Oh they do rip off a lot of the classics, you are right. Their coffee tables for example. It’s sad for the original designers but I guess everyone does it.

We had some friends over from England years ago and I remember them commenting about the style of our house a lot. Back then I don’t think the term Scandi style was a thing and I never understood what they meant, as we have just an average house. 😅

Ikea its a mixed bag really everything we have is from ikea because it was affordable and looked ok. Sure I'd love a house full of unique vintage and thrifted items but most of these things are just to large for the space I have or things are too expensive. I make do although I do notice things looking a bit shabby after a few years, a lot of the stuff doesn't last well.

I lived in Sweden around a lot of very wealthy people. They all had lots of IKEA furniture. Snobbishness about it here makes no damn sense.
My house has lots of ikea.

Maybe here. Maybe not there?

It's probably a bit like saying "let's go for an Indian". It's a well known descriptor for "let's have a curry". Probably not what's said in any part of India.

Well, it's not "scandi" in Sweden. It's just furniture.

I have three Billy bookcases that are now 29 years old and still going strong! We have wardrobes, the craft drawer units, a display cabinet, all brilliant quality and I would not say it is cheap, but affordable as it is produced in large numbers, so Ikea don't need to make a huge profit per item, but make money from the numbers sold. On the flip side, I have a chest of drawers that is 75 years of age, a table far older, alongside some inherited 60s furniture from the in-laws, so ercol and ladderax. Replacing something makes no sense, as price is no longer any guarantee of quality!

My whole house is Ikea and the house itself is a cookie cutter new build. And my kids go/went to a private school.

don’t give a crap what anyone thinks! It is all practical, functional and cheap. We broke a sofa after 15 years of busy family use. The sofa cost just over £200 nearly 2 decades ago so no need to be upset over it.

also my stuff doesn’t match or even go together. I don’t care what colour anything is.

I'm 64. I have an Ikea Day Bed in the spare room and some Ikea shelving. I have no intentions of replacing any of it.

There's not much in our apartment that isn't from Ikea I think. We moved abroad 18 years ago and bought loads as we moved from a small cottage to a flat with massive rooms. Malm bedroom furniture, Billy book cases, shelving and dining table, desk (wood) all going strong. And we've moved 3 times since then. We bought new Pax wardrobes after the last move as our big wardrobe that came from the UK finally gave up the ghost. We did live just round the corner from IKEA for many years though. We would go often just for meatballs and tea lights.

Yes there is!

I think it's deemed as starter furniture generally. People as they become wealthier I guess want to upscale to more expensive. Our home is a mixture, I still buy IKEA now and we are 15 years on from our first property. However I do also have a lot of 'Oak Furniture Land' type of furniture because I could get it at wholesale prices when I worked for a similar importer as it's generally a lot sturdier and stands the test of time longer.

Generally though I don't walk into friends homes and notice IKEA furniture or would I look down at them for it. I'm always fascinated to what people can do with it in walk in wardrobes or make a media wall from it.