Originally Posted by
GeorgeM
There is a bit of 'you get what you pay for' involved here...
We've bought a number of items from Freedom and in all cases they have been far superior to anything we bought from IKEA when in the UK. I've nothing against IKEA, but never found that its products were particularly well made - a bit like an up-market scandinavian MFI (IMO).
Cant argue with that! Lundia is the same -10x better quality than Ikea, but just not as good if you are on a tight budget.
Talking of which - we have just splurged $420 on 10 bookcases from the Warehouse. Total tat - Melamine chipboard - maple laminate. But at $42 for a 5 shelf bookcase - we now have a hallway doubling as our very own LIBRARY!!!!! (they are sooo cheap we actually bought extra ones to nick the spare shelves out of to get an extra 2 shelves on each bookcase). We were going to get lundia - but havent got enough money to get all the books out.