Custom bedroom wardrobe or standard furniture?

There must be extreme regional differences. We were looking for a 1.5m built-in wardrobe for our hallway. The simplest version from the carpenter among the 4 quotes we received was €2400. We then implemented the whole thing with Pax for just over €600. The 2cm gaps on the sides were not worth three times the price to us.

We had almost all the furniture in the house custom-made. Here are a few prices: dressing room 8 sqm 6400 EUR, hallway upstairs and downstairs 14000 EUR, children's room 15 sqm each approx. 4000 EUR and living room 22000 EUR, 3x bathrooms currently still in progress... total also approx. 20000 EUR. Partly real wood, partly high-quality lacquers.

Best regards, Steffen

I think you got ripped off there, you would have been much cheaper with Ikea or the usual ones.

but maybe not everyone wants Ikea furniture or "the usual" from the furniture store everywhere. I also find furniture stores really borderline. Either they have cheap stuff that is poorly made, poorly veneered, with many visible edges, and then too expensive for that, or nice stuff, high-quality made, which is incredibly expensive. As already mentioned, we will come to 1200€ / m, including drawers below, doors above, shelves etc etc. When I look at the good pieces in the furniture store - I am at 600€ for a small sideboard. Or then at 4000 € for a "wall unit" made up of 3 airily arranged parts, in which I can't put any of the stuff that has to go in there. And for system furniture (Sudbrock for example) I would be at 7k plus AND wouldn't even have it the way I wanted.

Sure, everyone can buy furniture however they like, but for me, the money would simply be too precious to spend that much at the carpenter. A few years ago, we also had a solid living room wall unit, it was quite expensive at the time, and yet we still wanted something new again. With such expensive furniture, it's somehow a pity. In the children's room, I wouldn't spend much at all. When I see how our son handles his furniture, there was even a pair of scissors stuck in the cupboard door that he threw across the room.

Best regards
Sabine

Sure, everyone can buy furniture however they like, but to me the money would just be too precious to spend that much at the carpenter. A few years ago, we also had a solid living room wall unit, it was quite expensive at the time and still, we wanted something new again. With such expensive furniture, it's somehow a pity. I wouldn't spend much in the children's room at all. Seeing how our son handles his furniture, there was already a pair of scissors stuck in the cabinet front that he had thrown across the room.

Best regards
Sabine

Maybe a question of upbringing?

Regarding IKEA... Anyone who compares IKEA stuff with high-quality custom-made furniture from a carpenter hasn't got a clue, right? Sure, I can get furniture for 1/20th of the price there... but it only lasts 1/20th as long.