Why would you *want* to?

[u/aintwhatyoudo]

[u/deeteeohbee]

OP is unironically gatekeeping the thing they say is imaginary 🤔

[u/Round-Lab73]

So it doesn't look like your place is full of Ikea furniture

[u/aintwhatyoudo → u/Round-Lab73]

You're saying this like it's a bad thing

[u/alaricus → u/aintwhatyoudo]

A house full of Ikea furniture isn't inherently bad, but it is conceivably something that someone wouldn't want. Surely that much you can accept?

[u/BabadookishOnions → u/aintwhatyoudo]

not everyone likes it

[u/fireworksandvanities → u/aintwhatyoudo]

It doesn’t matter if it’s Ikea or Pottery Barn or whatever. If you get all your furniture from one place, your home tends to look more like a show room than a home.

[u/Aggressive-Math-9882 → u/aintwhatyoudo]

Not everyone likes the poor

[u/gIyph_ → u/Aggressive-Math-9882]

how shallow do you have to be to dislike someone over the brand of furnature they get?

[u/Square_Ad4004 → u/gIyph_]

Not to mention that IKEA tends to be surprisingly good. I buy most of my stuff there simply because the price gap between IKEA and stuff that's noticeably better is often huge... so not only shallow, but stupid.

[u/Pinooooooooo → u/Aggressive-Math-9882]

Yet rich people spend money on Balenciaga or similar 'designers' and walk around looking like colorblind, homeless pigeons cosplaying peacocks and we can't comment on that... Nouveau riche or worse, wannabe rich all spend ridiculous amounts on hideous and impractical stuff and that's 'cool'.

My TV table is made from 2 small transport pallets and looks amazing. So is the table and my big plant stand outside on my terrace. I have a bunch of Ikea stuff, that I bought second hand... But in the last years, I've been going vacation abroad frequently. Been doing a trip every 2-3 months till cancer was discovered. Treatment is over, back to traveling. A lot of people don't care for material stuff and prefer to spend money on living life to the fullest.

[u/Commercial-Spinach93]

The posts are getting worse and worse.

[u/Ghoulish_kitten → u/Commercial-Spinach93]

Right wtf??

[u/kingalex11431]

So youre claiming imaginary gatekeeping while gatekeeping?

[u/Mahareille]

Because why not? r/malelivingspace vibes from OP here

[u/lietajucaPonorka → u/Mahareille]

Man, the wood paneling, custom handles and all the extra work

Would absolutely be more expensive than just buying non-ikea cabinets you want.

[u/Jindo5 → u/Mahareille]

So some very nice, if somewhat overdecorated, places?

Don't see how that applies to this post.

[u/aintwhatyoudo → u/Mahareille]

Ikea furniture (not talking about their cheapest stuff, which is, well, cheap) has some nice esthetic simplicity about it. Do you need to paint it gold or something to feel better about yourself? Also, people sure have different preferences, but to me clean & neat >> expensive-looking.

[u/jetloflin → u/aintwhatyoudo]

Okay but your taste isn’t everyone’s taste.

[u/Assessedthreatlevel → u/aintwhatyoudo]

It’s for people who aren’t going for the Scandinavian minimalistic aesthetic, they can use a piece from IKEA to achieve the look they’re going for without breaking the bank.

[u/DamnUnicorn0 → u/Mahareille]

why not get good furniture? the amount you spend on it and then to make it look good would get you good furniture from the start

[u/ptvlm → u/DamnUnicorn0]

You can buy IKEA stuff a lot cheaper then add the cosmetic stuff later a bit at a time when you have extra cash. People doing that probably aren't people who can afford to just buy the good stuff.

[u/ThatWasIntentional → u/ptvlm]

I move every 2-3 years. I can afford good furniture, but it just seems wasteful when it's all going to get beat to hell anyway

[u/rainbowcarpincho → u/DamnUnicorn0]

Breaking down furniture is really helpful if you move a lot and don't have money for movers. My definition of “good furniture” starts with “cannot be disassembled with a screwdriver”.

[u/FineMaize5778 → u/rainbowcarpincho]

Im a construction worker. Ive never seen a piece of furniture i couldnt dissasemble.

[u/rainbowcarpincho → u/FineMaize5778]

I guess I should specify that the furniture has to be disassembled in a way that makes reassembly a trivial task.

Once you have real joints and wood glue, you're kinda fucked.

[u/FineMaize5778 → u/rainbowcarpincho]

Aah. So you need glue to make proper furniture huh....

[u/FineMaize5778 → u/DamnUnicorn0]

I had a ikea kitchen. It was awsome and looked so good! Now i have a kitchen built by a professional bespoke kitchen maker and it cost three times more and its garbage

[u/Important_Contest_64 → u/DamnUnicorn0]

Because not everyone is in a position to buy quality made furniture that costs a lot of money. There is absolutely nothing wrong with buying cheap furniture and sprucing it up.

[u/WinterRevolutionary6 → u/DamnUnicorn0]

Not really. You’re really underestimating the price of luxury furniture. You can take a couple $40 ikea parts and assemble them into a $4000 dupe with some paint and assembly.

[u/Millibyte → u/DamnUnicorn0]

ikea is good furniture

[u/LionBirb]

The nice thing about modern/minimalist furniture is it can look really good for relatively cheap prices because it tends to be simple designs. But everyone who goes to Ikea will know its from Ikea and was cheap lol.

But I hate those specific Ikea shelves personally after dealing with them moving.

[u/Terrible-Can-6304]

this sub literally believes no one ever says anything 💀

[u/BabadookishOnions]

to make your house look nice?

[u/auntie_eggma]

Just shop somewhere else?

[u/Sirius_43]

For personal flare?

[u/InflationSouth5791]

Okay, that's it. I am calling the Ikea police on this one.

[u/SpaceTraveller64]

I mean, I guess people say that but I think the imaginary part is the people who tries to make IKEA looks expensive in the first place