Anything like Ikea, but, you know...better?

[JS80]

That's the best part of ikea is the fact that it's cheap and meant to be thrown away when you move or are in to frequent changes to your decoration

 

[paperfist]

I wanted it to be slick but industrial, using phenolic faced plywood and highlighting the screw positions with figured wood caps worked pretty well. The drawers are rabbeted and screwed.

The phenolic ply is a little harder to work with simply because you can't just sand out any imperfections in facing. But it's very heavy, very strong, and very even.

Thanks, up to this point I never heard of phenolic plywood. I'll have to check it out.

 

[MikeMike]

Most of the quality modern furniture is expensive. Estate sales can do well with quality mid-century stuff for cheap, but often I just wind up building my own:

DWR will have the really popular stuff, also check out:

http://www.ladiff.com/
http://www.skramfurniture.com/
http://www.modernlink.com/

DWR invented that market, they also have retreated a LOT with the collapse... Having heard the gist of their business plan, it was ingenious, and perfectly timed.