Ikea mix and miss-match (Ikea Bedroom Furniture in general)

Member Name: janice1066

Product:	Ikea Bedroom Furniture in general
Date:	05/11/01 (1729 review reads)
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Advantages: price, choise, "fun" factor

Disadvantages: queing for refunds/exchanges, matching batch numbers, flimsy back boards

First of all let me say that I'm a great fan of Ikea stuff in general. For the price you pay you get good quality and all the fun of building your furniture yourself!
However be warned if you are buying a range of furniture or adding to some existing items, because it can be important to make sure that batch numbers match up.
We bought 4 items of the Narvik range of solid pine bedroom furniture 3 of which had the same batch number. The chest of drawers had a different batch number and the stain used on the wood was a distinctly different colour to that used on the other items.
We ended up having to take all 4 items back [a real pain as we'd allready built the 2 wardrobes!] to be able to get 4 items all of the same batch number and therefore the same woodstain.
I'm not saying this problem will occur with other Ikea furniture but it's something to be aware of, especially with the solid wood stuff.

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