IKEA working with ROG to bring furniture FOR GAMING!!

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15 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

French rococo?  An early style that was more of a statement about hand carving ability than anything else.  Furniture had movements just like architecture or painting or books or movies or a lot of things really.

So that's what that design language is called. Anyways, that sort of design does not fit the modern condominiums and town houses that Vancouver is known for. And is most likely the reason why those stores get zero foot traffic. While places like IKEA and Structube are bustling.

 

Side note, Structube also has their problems. As far as I can tell, they're essentially drop shipping furniture (at least from my experience living on the West Coast where they just recently started operations in). The sales rep told us a sofa we ordered was going to take a few months to ship but had no exact date because it would be hand made in Montreal. Got the sofa delivered about a month later with "Made in China" conveniently printed on the same label that had the Structube logo plus it had a very obvious manufacturing defect. Way to go lads.  

[dizmo]

I'm pretty excited to see what comes of this...though I have no idea how they plan to release 30 different products. Clearly there's going to be some winners and some losers with that many SKUs coming out. I'm hoping they do something with a rising desk.

 

8 hours ago, jasonvp said:

Pretty much: stop there.  IKEA is the single worst peddler of garbage "furniture" in the world.  Cheap, stylish, junk that falls apart in no time.  Buy real furniture that will last.  If you can't afford it, save your money until you can.  Then: buy furniture that will last.  DON'T shop at IKEA.  Good grief!

They sell affordable furniture, so that people that aren't that well off actually have something to use. Not everyone can afford to sit around saving for months to buy a single piece, especially when it comes to things like childrens furniture that likely won't be around for more than a few years anyway. Plus, if you take care of it, it'll last.

5 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

Alright but as I expected... it's exactly the same (everywhere, just different pricing obviously) tbf from experience not everything is trash but usually it's just really low quality, paint coming off, table feets breaking etc ...

Their stuff really isn't that bad if you don't beat on it and take care of it. I've had Ikea stuff before, and it's all been excellent. It hasn't even been expensive. $20 side tables? Lasted 5 years. The table top I have now has lasted 3 and looks as good as it did the day I got it. I had a pair of red table tops I used as desks and they got several positive remarks from passers-by...in a very upscale neighborhood.

5 hours ago, jasonvp said:

I know there will be counter-examples that pop up here and there, but they're exceptions, not the rule.  And exceptions are just that: exceptions.  Buy from IKEA and you're throwing good money after bad.  You're going to be replacing that piece of shit you just bought in a couple of years with another piece of... well hopefully better furniture, but likely shit again because folks just can't stop shopping there for some reason.

 

Buy real furniture.  Real desks made by real desk makers.  Pay the extra money.  It'll outlast the house you're in.  Seriously.

 

Or don't, and keep buying new desks and chairs and whatever else, every few years.

Not necessarily. You might, others can actually take care of the stuff that they have.

[Bombastinator]

On 9/14/2020 at 8:13 AM, jasonvp said:

I know there will be counter-examples that pop up here and there, but they're exceptions, not the rule.  And exceptions are just that: exceptions.  Buy from IKEA and you're throwing good money after bad.  You're going to be replacing that piece of shit you just bought in a couple of years with another piece of... well hopefully better furniture, but likely shit again because folks just can't stop shopping there for some reason.

 

Buy real furniture.  Real desks made by real desk makers.  Pay the extra money.  It'll outlast the house you're in.  Seriously.

 

Or don't, and keep buying new desks and chairs and whatever else, every few years.

Depends on how often you move.  The difficulty  with flat pack furniture is it’s not meant to be moved with or taken apart and put back together again.  If that doesn’t happen to it it’s basically regular furniture

[EChondo]

Wonder what the price will be, and the quality of materials.

 

I've bought a few IKEA $200 office chairs before, and they are nice, but little things usually wear down on them like the position lock for the tilt. Damn thing doesn't hold up.

 

I bought a refurbished Hermon Miller Aeron for $400 off of OfferUp and honestly it's 10x better than anything IKEA has put out.

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G A M I N G  T A B L E

 

yes please

[Bombastinator]

4 hours ago, EChondo said:

Wonder what the price will be, and the quality of materials.

 

I've bought a few IKEA $200 office chairs before, and they are nice, but little things usually wear down on them like the position lock for the tilt. Damn thing doesn't hold up.

 

I bought a refurbished Hermon Miller Aeron for $400 off of OfferUp and honestly it's 10x better than anything IKEA has put out.

So paying $200 for a new chair nets you less chair than paying $400 for a used one.  That definitely sounds reasonable. 

[Comixbooks]

I was looking for a gaming desk I thought they looked pretty nice  using a drafting desk currently.

If they wanted to make a good gaming desk the height would be adjustable. Alot of gaming desks are 30" inches high which is way too high for alot of chairs and isn't really ergo for alot of people and setups my desk is like 26" which is fully adjustable can even adjust in the incline because it's a drafting desk.

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, Comixbooks said:

I was looking for a gaming desk I thought they looked pretty nice  using a drafting desk currently.

If they wanted to make a good gaming desk the height would be adjustable. Alot of gaming desks are 30" inches high which is way too high for alot of chairs and isn't really ergo for alot of people and setups my desk is like 26" which is fully adjustable can even adjust in the incline because it's a drafting desk.

I used a drafting desk in high school for a homework desk mostly because it was adjustable and made out of tubular steel so it wouldn’t squeak and make noise which drove me batshit.