They haven't solved the "not sourcing wood illegally from Romanian primordial forests" yet though.
Baby steps.
Baby steps.
Honestly it's ikea or luxury stuff, anything else does not make sense.
You can't beat ikea quality and quality at any price point.
As an alternative, we've found antique shops that have amazing quality furniture for less than ikea's high end lines, if you're ok with the older styles.
If it says solid wood it's probably fine.
If it says particle board or fibre board or something other than solid wood it's an "assemble it once and never move it again" piece at best, and a "keep it for a few years" piece at worst.
It's not like it's a problem unique to ikea. Buying particle board or mdf furniture is always going to give you a much worse product (in terms of quality and longevity) compared to something made with solid wood, or at the very least with decent quality plywood.
The best result (in terms of a strong joint) from particle board furniture would be to add glue when screwing (i.e. in the hole with the screw) but that completely removes the option of disassembling it.
ÄPPLARYD is a cheaply made sofa that looks nice, with very poor quality fabric just like all IKEA sofas these days
I'm fine with people saying it looks nice but it's tiring when people say it's "high end" and "high quality" and well made
That's a poor heuristic that's repeated ad nauseum. The trouble is even expensive IKEA lines are mostly poor quality but they have such good marketing and styling that people refuse to believe it
But if you're happy with the most expensive IKEA products, good for you!
A breakdown of every ikea item and every specific detail for it?
Yes, i'm talking for experience and i don't really have any data to back this up, i just have a lot of bad experience with any other furniture builder and not a lot of problems with ikea
I find it funny you've asked another poster for the exact price of a piece of Amish furniture. But won't substantiate your grand claims. Interesting
Folks keep acting like it's still 2022 and that we are somehow in a ZIRP era. It's not, and most assets are not selling and are therefor to be had for cheap.
The problem is availability (online and in person) and warranty (not only in a legal sense , but quality assurance)
Can you tell me what's the price of a table with 4 chairs from a Amish workshop, for example?
That's a "forrest".
At least in Europe, almost all land has been influenced by humans, and "forrest" is misused for farms that grow trees.
To refer to an actual forrest, an additional qualifier is needed.
It is a forest that humans have not touched. There are still a few in Europe, and some are strictly protected. However, in countries where corruption is at a high level, local politicians can be bought to issue concessions for the deforestation of those natural jewels.
My impression is that it's really difficult to do at scale because it isn't trivial to tell this tree from that tree, especially post harvest and paperwork is always spoofable.
Don't even start about ethanol, because they make samagon (moonshine) out of anything that ferments, including chicken poop. It's just not sold in stores, you "get" it on the black market.
At such budgets, scale, and lobbying there is no such thing as "ooops, we didn't know where this come from, some lumberjack lied to us". You have folks in suits flying in private jets and arranging agreements (and cocaine and prostitutes as well of course).
Unfortunately, I would see this purely as Romania's unwillingness or inability to address the issues leading to the illegal cutting of wood. Possibly the usual suspects of corruption, a lack of will to act, and a lack of "resources".
At the end of the day it is one very busy person putting purchase orders to some other very busy people. All of them on tight KPIs for their bonuses until eventually it gets to the production site and oops, child labor.
To be honest this problem needs to be fixed top-down through international standards and institutions to ensure proper traceability. Leaving to each company to do it on their own and to country regulations is just stupid and counterproductive.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-use-of-wood-from-the...