> Flat pack furniture tends to be very awful compared to alternatives that are also often cheaper and without assembly requirements.

I don't particularly like my ikea furniture. But one big reason why I bought this instead of alternatives that come fully assembled is the price: it's much cheaper.

Then again, I live in France, there aren't many Amish around AFAIK.

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mft_ 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Same here, in Germany.

Some categories are especially exaggerated: when needing a number of new wardrobes a few years ago, we struggled to find anything that was remotely similar in price or value to IKEA. The big retail park furniture stores were 2-4x the price for similarish quality (i.e. chipboard; modular construction). Smaller higher quality stores (e.g. plywood/real wood rather than cardboard or chipboard) were roughly 4-8x more expensive. And one really nice local option was roughly 10x more expensive. [0] (We didn't even explore bespoke/handcrafted for obvious reasons.)

Wardrobes, in particular, are begging for disruption - essentially a relatively modular approach, higher quality materials than IKEA, (much) lower cost than Moormann.

[0] https://www.moormann.de/de/schrankone.html

	▲	stavros 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's something wrong with their site, all their prices have an extra digit for some reason.

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ghaff 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I did assemble some Ikea cube-type storage after a lot of my house interior was redone. It was a bit of a pain but it's now very satisfactory storage in a couple of closets. And it wasn't that expensive even with delivery. (The nearest Ikea is far enough it would have ended up being a full-day trip.)