What I meant to say was that the furniture itself is a hundred years old. All furniture was expensive back then but it was amortised long time ago.
My point is that IMHO some products are not worth having at all.
One time I bought a cheap desk at IKEA, a plain board with stainless steel legs. It soon started bothering me that placing a big pile of books on it would make it bend and I was then afraid to climb on top of it to clean the window, I was not sure it could support my weight. A few months later I had some guests who placed some heavy climbing equipment on it and managed to damage it, now the desk has a 5cm hole in the middle.
In retrospect, to me such desk is wasted money even if priced at 5$.
I ended up going to a local store and buying a proper desk for 4 times the price. It looks really nice and is very strong and it can be repaired if it ever gets damaged. Now, I could have spent the same money for a better quality desk in IKEA but in this price range there are other stores that can match the quality and even offer better looks (this is subjective - I'm not a fan of IKEA style).
Also I still have 5 CFL bulbs from IKEA which I will never use. They were cheap but I did not expect they could be this bad.
My point is that IMHO some products are not worth having at all.
One time I bought a cheap desk at IKEA, a plain board with stainless steel legs. It soon started bothering me that placing a big pile of books on it would make it bend and I was then afraid to climb on top of it to clean the window, I was not sure it could support my weight. A few months later I had some guests who placed some heavy climbing equipment on it and managed to damage it, now the desk has a 5cm hole in the middle.
In retrospect, to me such desk is wasted money even if priced at 5$.
I ended up going to a local store and buying a proper desk for 4 times the price. It looks really nice and is very strong and it can be repaired if it ever gets damaged. Now, I could have spent the same money for a better quality desk in IKEA but in this price range there are other stores that can match the quality and even offer better looks (this is subjective - I'm not a fan of IKEA style).
Also I still have 5 CFL bulbs from IKEA which I will never use. They were cheap but I did not expect they could be this bad.