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

Shop furniture, decor and more favorites. ... Shop IKEA’s as-is section to pick up quality furniture and decor for less By . Victoria Giardina. Published Aug. 26, 2024, 2:42 p.m. ET.

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 is changing the design of some of its products due to supply-chain changes and inflation. There is now paper foil on the Billy bookcase, aluminum instead of zinc, and plastic instead of wood.

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 is always trying to be a little bit different; curious and see if it can break this boundary between design and fashion. Since it believes that self-expression starts at home, we see that ...

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.

The new Energy Insights feature monitors real-time energy consumption, but only in Sweden. However, Ikea is launching its first-ever energy-monitoring smart plug globally. The new Energy Insights ...