IKEA kitchens are great?! We've had ours for a long time now. And even moved once and took the kitchen with us. It's easier to assemble than their competition, the surface of my cupboards has higher quality than some other kitchens I've seen. There's no silly salesman in the process who tells you it's 17,000€ but you get a special discount and only need to pay 10,000€ if you order it today... You can just grab additional cabinets 12 years later...

I didn't buy the appliances at IKEA, though. And I found nicer alternatives for the sink, plumbing, ~~countertop~~ worktop as well. But the rest is from IKEA and I'm A-okay. Also like my IKEA wardrobe.

Only downside is if you don't assemble it yourself. I had a look at their price table for assembling it, and that service was a bit expensive, I think. At least where I live.

I think IKEA has different price points

The ones installed when I moved in were those cheap particle board counter tops and cabinets, so when my dishwasher leaked everything expanded and cracked and can never be fixed. A real wood or high quality MDF would have been okay with a one time water event (if dried properly)

It stood up for years, worked fine, wasn’t awful. Just was cheap and not resilient.

Absolutely hate the “how”, that’s comment garbage.

But it perfectly matches what you’d get in annotated data or intro medium blog style writing.