Read the article at https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/08/flat-pack-to-the-future-how-ikea-shaped-our-lives and discuss it. Present your personal experiences.
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As they sell really much products and have their shops almost everywhere it's really nice of them that they think also about nature and environment.
In my case, I have visited IKEA quite often recently, as I am moving out to a different city and it has spared me a lot of troubles already.
Would I recommend checking this store? Definitely.
Perhaps sometimes it is more rewarding to use IKEA's founder philosophy that waste is a “mortal sin”, go get a lovely old armchair from OLX and renovate it oneself.
My brother and his girlfriend do an amazing job of breathing new life into old furniture they hunt for on OLX and community trash drop off sites.
On the other hand I suspect that there were a lot of furniture from Ikea in appartments I was renting, so maybe quality of it isn't bad, I don't know. Maybe in future when I'll buy my own flat, I would visit Ikea to buy furniture, but who knows.
In my opinion, Ikea didn’t shape our lives. Not in a direct way. Most people only care about good value for money while shopping in Ikea. They don’t pay attention to the Ikea’s philosophy and live their own life. Fortunately, shopping is also helpful. It helps Ikea to continue their mission to improve the world behind our backs.
The founder of Ikea deserves respect(comparing to the Zuckerberg person which is quite the opposite, who-cares-about-user one), and I heard that even now he still manages everything in IKEA stores, starting from furniture design and ending with dishes in a canteen.
People have different tastes and ikea provides. But what if someone want's something regional hmm? It's almost impossible to find hand-made furniture.
Let's face it. Ikea is slowly but steadily dominating the market. Stillit's a good company. They hardly make any fancy stuff but they deliver, and are quite a decentcompany.
Moving on, there is one thing I don't like about Ikea. The author of the post mentioned that one of the rules of Ikea's code of conduct is to maintain a "strict 50/50 gender split target for management teams across the globe". For me, that's a hilarious idea. Managers and other employees should be appointed based on their merits, not their gender.
When I have moved to Poland, I rented a flat - ordinary story - and had to fulfill the empty shelves. Ikea is almost always an answer in such situation. And that is what I am thankful for. But in my opinion, you can never create that cozy unique atmosphere in your flat only using Ikea products. You can use it as a base, or as an addition to something, but as for me - I get bored in 100% Ikea interiors. I don't want to sound categorical, everything depends on one's character and way of living, and we all know that tastes differ. But I am more into seeking for some unique single things, sometimes even on flea markets, but you can find something with soul, and Ikea stuff has no soul, unfortunately. For me it's important. But I still like to visit that place to buy some plants, kitchen garment and lamp bulbs. Oh, and I like their food, chocolate and horrible cheap hot-dogs:) and I guess, some of us had fun pretending to live in those Ikea demo apartments))
Anyway, Ikea is a legendary and successful project, and I am admired by it's creator and his great idea. And I am glad that during last years Scandinavian design and philosophy is becoming more and more popular, we can learn many good things from those guys.
"while the sofas are given Swedish place names and the beds are named after towns in Norway, the Danish place names are reserved especially for toilet brushes"
made me chuckle.
For me, our house or flat should be reflection of our character and tastes. Ikea is ruining that conception because, in Poland, people can't afford for durable furniture made by craftsman or companies which are using good quality materials.
Their products are pretty good quality and they are not so expensive. When we buy furnitures or some accessories in Ikea we can save a lot of money. This is a big benefit for example for students who need to buy furniture for their flat or room. I think their furnitures are modern and good looking. Nowadays in many homes we can find Ikea products, it shows how big success Ikea has achieved. The great advantage of this store is that they care about the environment because nowadays this is very important for many people. If I had to buy furniture and accessories for my flat or room I would definitely go to the Ikea store.
You do not have to wait long for your furniture as in many companies like BRW, Agata Meble and etc. - they are all in stock mostly all the time. IKEA is quite affordable shop, for me the only concern is quality - it could be better. One thing you may not know - do you know that IKEA makes 90 % of furniture in country they sell them ? By example there are almost 30 companies in Mazowieckie district that are making tables, beds and other components for IKEA.
In my case, most of furniture in my room is from Ikea, just because of low price and high functionality.
Now, almost 20 years later I still enjoy shopping at IKEA and assembling all the bits and pieces, although it is not the only reason for that. IKEA has very nice and simple designs which do not age very fast. They offer great terms when it comes to warranties (25 years of warranty on kitchen furniture!). They have the best value for money ratio of all the stores I ever heard of. Prices are really reasonable, which makes it possible for more people to redecorate their homes every few years, when they feel like it. There is also one advantage that many people do not know about - many parts work fine with parts from other pieces of furniture, even entire products are possible to assemble together with other, making more suitable versions of them for the individual needs. I see IKEAs products a bit like 'adult Lego's', and strongly recommend visiting http://ikeahackers.net for ideas and inspiration.
Lastly, IKEA does a great job being green and as non-intrusive to the environment as possible for such an enormous company, both when it comes to their product range and solution (focusing on recycling, not using unnecessary power, being minimalistic) and their manufacturing processes (recycled materials, 'clean factories', flat packaging and more) which for me makes it even more justified to choose IKEA as the furniture store of choice.
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