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Ian Garton's Review of Ikea

27th Feb 2009

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Quality of service
    3.5 stars
  • Goods purchased & cost
    Almost everything £50,000
  • Layout of shop
    2.5 stars
Good Points

Extraordinarily cheap, elegant and ingenious design and high quality in all the small things that make things work like hinges, runners, fasteners. Also the range is so wide that people of different tastes can be accommodated. A fantastic concept, executed on a gigantic scale that really makes a difference in people's lives. Good on accepting returns if they don't suit you or they don't work.


Bad Points

Catalogue and layout can be confusing to beginners. So can the delivery system or the return system. (They are fine in reality but you have to go with the flow).


General Comments

We have equipped a vast (450m2) new house with a judicious mix of previously owned kit, one or two 3rd party "style statements" (ugh!) and IKEA, which is at least 50% of the whole. The kitchen and utility rooms, for example, have over 100 IKEA Faktum kitchen units and they look stunning. It is the combination of cheapness plus the practicality and ingenuity of their fittings which means one does not have to stint. Again and again, we found we could fit out the inside of wardrobes for kitchen, bedroom or study to accommodate everything generously which gave a greater feel of real luxury than buying overpriced stuff from more "prestigious" names. There are no better designers than the ones who work for IKEA. To make good functional stuff at their sorts of prices is real engineering. We must have spent £50,000 in IKEA in 18 months and I was more in awe of them at the end than at the beginning.

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