Have you bought a desk or dresser recently? The cheap ones used to be made of plyboard, now it's 90 percent plastic and the same price. Resources aren't as plentiful as they used to be and minimalism is the result of that.
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And the crappy wood ones are so expensive! I was at Ikea and all of their dressers were like $250-$500 or more!
Exactly! Somehow, in my lifetime, plyboard has became mid tier. This shit is insane.
IKEA does use a higher quality particle board than say Canadian Tire. Or at least it's better than what it used to be at Canadian Tire, since I stopped buying furniture from there (so who knows if it's still that bad). After one move, the old Canadian Tire stuff was wobbly while all of my IKEA stuff is still solid, even though I was feeling less patient last time I moved it and had a "if it doesn't survive, so be it" attitude.
Though note that I do tend to avoid the bottom tier IKEA stuff, since some of it does look pretty short term.
I've never bought from Canadian Tire before so I can't completely speak to that. I will say my IKEA bed is very obviously made of plyboard. It's fairly sturdy, but cost almost $300 used. The point is we used to build things to last with strong materials, but we can't now due to the fact that resources have dwindled faster than we can replenish them.
It helps that the picture on it on the left was taken on a sunny summer's day while the one on the right is on a cloudy day in winter.
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