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I am moving to a larger place and I really want to get a dedicated reading chair, as I dislike reading on the couch or in bed.
After doing a ton of research, it seems that IKEA is still the best game in town when it comes to the cross section of longevity and affordability, so I will be buying this (and a few other items) from IKEA when the time comes.
Please tell me your favorite IKEA reading chair (or chair + ottoman combo).
Thank you!
Do any of you have Ikea armchairs? Can you give me some advice/feedback?
I got sick and tired of having to sit in the living room by the fireplace on a couch with the boards smashed.
The other week I went to Ikea, and I tried (= sat on it 1 minute) the UPPBUREN.
It's slutty gray color, however, frankly, it also fits me. It has a lift system that pushes your ass off like springs on any platformer. And it comes at €399.
The price obviously put me off: it's not that I wouldn't spend 400€ to be comfortable, it's that I actually don't know the quality of Ikea armchairs.
It seems to me that the couch we have now (a two-seater one taken from a store nearby) my mother had paid about 400 for it, yet after a few years it flaked out like an old bag.
I don't know if 400 is enough to have something that lasts 10 years, or that it should only be thrown away when I get sick of it, and not because I have to put it back together with a stapler.
A few days ago I went back on the attack: I looked at the Ikea catalog and found the SAME chair but without the butt lift system, the OMTANKSAM. It looks totally the same to me. At 329€ (if you want there is also at 430, where there comes out however also the footrest, which I don't know if it is useful or not).
My idea would be to buy two armchairs and throw out this crappy sofa. I don't know how much the figures are "enough" to get an armchair that lasts and is comfortable.
I don't know any other place where I can see armchairs (I'm in central Italy) and frankly spending 800€ I know it's a lot, but god I can't stand to sit in the living room on the crap my beggar mother buys, namely a smashed sofa and a Chinese hardwood rocking chair where "she's comfortable" but only because she's a beggar.
I am desperate, I want to sit down and be comfortable, HOLY GOD I WANT TO BE COMFORTABLE, don't pray for holy death to catch me every time I want to sit down to read a book, please help me.