What Not to Buy at Ikea

1.    Mattresses
Ikea offers mattresses at a price range from $80 for a simple, twin-sized spring mattress to $649 for a king-size foam mattress.To walk away from Ikea with a complete bed set, you’d have to purchase three more items:  A bed base, foundation, and at least one mattress pad, adding almost $500 more to your total cost.
2.    Imitation Wood Products You’ll Use Every Day
Ikea is full of products that look like wood but are actually made of laminate or pressed wood—or wood particles glued together. You might find yourself replacing that laminate coffee or dining table within a year as the daily use will cause the laminate to peal away at the edges or become stained or scratched.
3.    Dinnerware
If you’d like your flatware to make a bit more of a statement, Ikea’s selection is lacking.
4.    Quality Cutlery
Any professional chef or avid home cook will tell you that a quality set of knives is essential. And unfortunately, quality requires investment. There’s no way the $10 set Ikea offers will provide the ease, precision, longevity, or efficiency that a professional knife set promises.
5.    Things with Complicated Assembly Instructions
Unless you’re a natural handyman, be wary of some of the items that require a huge amount of DIY assembly.  Purchasing a fully-formed bookshelf elsewhere for a bit more might be worth what you save in time and sanity.
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Ok lol so some of these things are like no brainers. You should know not to buy the plastic wood stuff anywhere espacially at Ikea. I'm not sayin this is a bad store its just the some things arent all the great of quality.  I love this store though because they have lots of cool crazy stuff there.  But is it me, or is almost everything there DIY with VERY complicated instructions... well i dont know it just seems like everything is. But other than that, its not a bad store. So what do yall think of the quality at Ikea?

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