Never again. IKEA furniture.

[Rman]

I bought a bookshelf from IKEA not to long ago.  Let's say around 10 months ago.  It was a ready to assemble bookshelf and it appeared pretty sturdy.  The bookshelf mostly had books and some magazines, and I kept my games, cds, and dvds in a shelf in my closet.  Thank God I kept them separate because I woke up this morning to find my bookshelf totally collapsed. 

I did not have any legal volumes or encyclopedias on this thing, and this cheap ass bookshelf collapsed on itself.  Most of my books were fine with the exception of some magazines, which were torn.

I guess you get what you pay for.

[Eric P]

i worked for them for several months

it was ok

but i was underacheiving

[calcifer]

how about you learn to assemble correctly?

[Rman]

It was assembled correctly.  I mentioned it was very sturdy in the OP, and I would not make a thread if I wasn't surprised why it collapsed

[Saint Cornelius]

I've bought two dressers from Ikea; one, I put together correctly and it was strong like bull - until the fucking movers failed to secure it in the truck properly and it tipped over. It's made for fucking standing up, not falling over! Anyways - I put the replacement together one drunken afternoon and it's not strong like bull, it's fucking wobbly and shitty.

This doesn't really correspond with your story, Rman - I just thought I'd share.

[MCD]

Here is hoping my cheap IKEA PC and TV stands don't collapse.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

my IKEA furniture is fuck stable but then I also know how to read directions

[AdmiralViscen]

Yea, he put it together so poorly that it held up for 10 months.

[CajoleJuice]

My IKEA entertainment stand thingy has held up pretty well.

[Flannel Boy]

One of the shelves in my Ikea bookshelf broke in half. The Swedes must have thought no North American wouldn't actually put any books in it.

[xnikki118x]

Me and the wife bought an Ikea table that a leg that was 4 whole inches shorter than the others.  I would have kept it had it been a a cat.

I have a cat whose one front leg is shorter and deformed. He's a doll, though. [Okay so he's not mine, but he belongs to Gram and Pop and lives here.]



I've heard tons of things about IKEA having really cool-looking but lower-quality furniture.

[Eric P]

One of the shelves in my Ikea bookshelf broke in half. The Swedes must have thought no North American wouldn't actually put any books in it.

i think the problem is that american books are just fatter

look at the swedish bookini team vs the american bookini team