IKEA kitchen quality and experiences?

Indeed, one of the advantages of Ikea is that the basic series has remained stable for many years. Simply buy a few new fronts and the kitchen is modern again. In mid-2014, IKEA switched from Faktum to Metod. Interestingly, the after-sales service for FAKTUM still exists; and quite extensively. Perhaps I will still manage a third move with FAKTUM.

From my perspective, IKEA is rather for DIY builders.

I took a closer look at an Ikea kitchen yesterday. It can’t compete with a Nolte, the hinges and corpus just felt cheaper.

What I really liked was a model that hung directly on the wall. Visually an absolute treat for the price.

Anyone who buys at ikea has to, or should, probably handle the assembly and planning themselves. That way you can get a good kitchen at a low price.

One that doesn’t have to hide.

Hi,
if you want to plan and build the kitchen yourself, you can get a fairly decent kitchen at Ikea for a reasonably acceptable price. In terms of quality, I would classify it as mid-range. If that’s enough for you, great! What I have seen in furniture stores didn’t seem any better to me, just significantly more expensive.

The main advantages at Ikea are in my opinion,

[*]that you can buy the items again later or refresh the look years later with a new set of fronts. Try that with a furniture store kitchen!

[*]That you have a somewhat transparent business partner and not these brainless 78.94125% discount campaigns at the furniture store, meaning you can compare and are not exposed to these nonsense.
[*]The items are available and fast. I’m not willing to wait more than 4 weeks for furniture!
[*]You don’t have to enter a furniture store to buy a kitchen, if necessary it can be done online. My wife and I both get hives just thinking about furniture stores...

Best regards,

Andreas

As the question says, it makes me suspicious that the IKEA kitchens are quite cheap. How is the workmanship? And the hinges? Do the kitchens last long?

There is a video on YouTube about kitchen sales (NDR - Küchen Check, minute 37), where Nolte was compared with Ikea.
Result: Not much difference. Ikea slightly thicker, hinges similar, Nolte's fastening a bit better.

So we have already thoroughly discussed the topic and were firmly determined to buy from Ikea. In the process, we compared Nobilia, Nolte, Ikea, and Häcker Systemat. Nolte still has a few other perceived differences... alone the fact that Ikea’s selection of colors for worktops and fronts is very limited, no sealing lip on the carcass, carcass only available in white or black-brown, etc. Häcker is similar... plus the already mentioned cabinet types and sizes that Ikea lacks. All in all, Häcker was actually not much more expensive than Ikea for us. If Ikea fits the dimensions and the colors suit your taste, then surely there is nothing against it.

Hey,

here’s a comparison from someone who has both:
an IKEA Metod kitchen unit in the utility room and a Nolte kitchen in the kitchen.

We also thought about it for a long time because we found the IKEA kitchens visually appealing as well.
In the end, the IKEA kitchen was only slightly cheaper than the almost identically planned Nolte kitchen, so we decided on the Nolte kitchen since it was delivered and installed for free by the furniture store, which saved us a lot of work during the stressful moving period.

We bought the IKEA kitchen unit for the utility room later and picked it up and assembled it ourselves at IKEA.
I was positively surprised by the quality; the furniture was easy and precise to assemble.
We especially liked the hinges, which just have to be clicked in without screws. This hinge system was by far the best among the many different pieces of furniture we assembled in the new house.

Overall, you truly can’t say anything bad about the IKEA kitchen. The prices are attractive and the quality is okay. It’s just a lot of work to assemble it yourself because having IKEA assemble it really isn’t worthwhile since it’s quite expensive!
What I didn’t like so much about IKEA, however, is that the carcasses only come in two colors, that you have to order and have wall panels matching the countertop delivered separately, and that there are no color-matched wall finishing strips, only gray or beech-colored ones. All things that were of course standard with my Nolte kitchen and that I would have liked to have for the IKEA kitchen as well.

Oh, and I just thought of one more advantage of the IKEA kitchen:
For Metod, you can buy a lot of accessories like drawer dividers, knife holders, etc., relatively cheaply. With Nolte, you pay a small fortune for something like that and it’s hard to get.