My experience with ikea furniture is that some of it is pretty solid and some of it is dreck. The stuff that has been dreck has been the stuff that comes in a million pieces and requires assembly. Our former coffee table fell into this category. It had been $60, marked down to $14.95 when we bought it 15ish years ago. The first time I tried to move it I learned the hard way that the legs were not attached with enough durability to handle being dragged across the floor. We ended up using it, legless, until last fall by putting it on top of a couple of little Target drawer cubes. Our living room chairs, on the other hand, have proved to be incredibly sturdy. SO bought them about 20 years ago and they are still solid as a rock. And because they are upholstered with slip-on covers we've been able to buy replacement covers inexpensively when they were starting to look ragged due to attention from the cats.