[akerro]

>Instead Ikea use veneers and crumbling particle materials so you can't fix it at all. Many people say you essentially can't move Ikea furniture between houses because you can't dismantle it and if you tried to it'd simply fall apart.

Not only say that. It has happened to me. I bought 3 doors wardrobe with 2 mirror doors. 2 years later I was moving to a different accommodation, wardrobe fall apart when we were holding it above stairs. Only mirror doors were reusable. The rest filled full container for garbage.

I'm all for buy-for-life, so I bought only oak-made furniture since then. I still visit IKEA quite often, but just for plants and clearance section where you can find sheepskin, natural carpets and IoT lights for 1/3 of price. They also have really good hot chocolate and cakes :D

[whazor]

IKEA Pax wardrobes are quite decent and easy to fix as they are modular. Bit more expensive but still very affordable.

[Normal_gaussian]

The only issue I've had with pax is the need to replace the backboard each time I've moved it (twice). Next time I'm rigging up my own thing to make it removable.

[mft_]

As posted elsewhere in this thread, my counter-anecdote: I had a pax wardrobe (also with two mirror doors!) which lasted seven years and two house moves (i.e. three houses) very well, before being sold on to a new home a few months ago, in pretty decent condition.

[interactivecode]

where did you buy oak made furniture? in my experience most furniture of a similar price is worse than IKEA not better

[chrisseaton]

These days I buy almost all my furniture from John Lewis. Stopped giving Ikea more chances after I graduated.

[akerro]

https://www.oakfurnitureland.co.uk/