Can IKEA Furniture Look Good and Last for the Long Haul? Experts Weigh In originally appeared on Parade Home & Garden.

But Ikea doesn’t need to be the furniture equivalent of fast fashion. Its items can last, said Pete Oyler, associate professor of furniture design at Rhode Island School of Design.

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But IKEA doesn’t need to be the furniture equivalent of fast fashion. Its items can last, said Pete Oyler, associate professor of furniture design at Rhode Island School of Design.

Ikea, the Swedish home furnishings giant, ventured into secondhand retail last summer to make its flat-packed, versatile furniture more accessible to shoppers. Five months in, the experiment has ...

If you visit Ikea only once or twice a year, you might associate the retailer with little more than cheap chairs and meatballs.. Fair enough. Ikea offers a seemingly endless array of affordable ...

IKEA customers can already sell their furniture back to the firm at its shops, a service more than 200,000 customers made use of last year, twice as many as in 2022.