Crockery, glasses, etc. - Ikea or Supermarket?

Hi All

About to occupy our recently purchased townhouse in Los Alcazares and we intend to replace all the crockery, mugs, glasses, cutlery, saucepans......

Would we be better purchasing these items enmass from Ikea in Murcia or one of the many supermarkets?

We are buying for ourselves as we do not intend to rent the property out

Thanks for any advice

Kerry

 

 

 

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We found Ikea the best value---we tend to buy a few extra then to cover breakages.Enjoy J

 

 

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Hi Kerry, we went to ikea at Murcia and brought all our crockery and pans glasses and cuttlery, we found the choice great, we wanted not the cheapest but a lovely colour choice and something a bit modern, for our dinner set and found a lovely pale teal blue with lots of contrasting unusual shaped dishes for nuts and olives etc. plus they have lots of little gadgets for the kitchen and all the linnen you could want.  i find the Eroski by us is very expensive for anything for the kitchen the knives can be 10 - 15 euros each, and the crockery is so old fashioned, i really enjoyed going there and seeing all the stuff they have and we filled our car.

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Hi .

We wanted to furnish our holiday place in Camposol quickly at reasonable cost and reasonable quality.

We went to an IKEA store in the UK( Gateshead Metro ) and then looked at the selections on display so viewing in the UK but pick up the goods and purchase in Spain ( Murcia Store is the same size as Gateshead one ).

We made a list  went on line at GOOGLE Ikea .com web pages and input the product codes when the shoping basket is full change the launguage  to spanish and have also price in euros. In Spain picked up lights, furniture, beds, wardrobes, etc etc Found it really easy as you park UNDER IKEA in Murcia and loading the car is a doddle. Saved us hours of driving round and round looking for odd bits and pieces. All went well and would reccommend this method . Any large items in the furniture area check with the spanish staff you have all the seprate bits reqd. Good luck

 

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Personally I have difficulty liking IKEA crockery because it has that "IKEA look" and because I have more than enough of it back home (reminder of my student days) so wanted something totally different for my Spanish holiday property.

I actually enjoy shopping around in small local shops and chatting to shopkeepers about this and that and found that I could find stuff that (at least to my untrained eye) looks much less generic and much more exclusive without actually spending much more money than I would in IKEA. In fact many small shops are so happy to see customers these days that they offer you all sorts of discounts that IKEA wouldn't be offering.

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Nothing wrong with Ikea plus if something breaks it's easy enough to get replacements that fit the style. I find it soothing to go ,,ah well, that's life'' when something hits the floor and disintegrates rather than go ,,"$^%£&, that was a fortune.They also have a range that goes from cheap to something more classy.

The big Carrefour stores have usually quite good offers as well. But I  Iike kea.

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I bought all my tableware and cutlery pans etc from Ikea for my south coast UK holiday home. The +365 crockery is actually very nice good quality kit. After 18 months still no probs or signs of wear.
As a matter of interest I once had 2 web pages open side by side, one was Ikea UK, the other IKea Spain, identical. The only item that I could not get in Spain was a divan bed that I have in my main house, in Spain the Ikea beds do differ from the UK.

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Hi Kerry,
I bought the majority of my glassware and basic items in Ikea but other items in Casa.Their stuff is lovely.Some lovely items in basic white but also some really pretty unique items especially when it's just for your own use.Zara Home also has some gorgeous homeware items.

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I roam between 4 abodes which can get a bit tiresome but in 3 of them I have the same IKEA pan sets, lamps, bedding, glasses, cutlery and some other bits and bobs. It somehow makes the moving around a little bit easier when the stuff is familiar in each place. I    IKEA!

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For everyday stuff, we use the local Chinese shops. Very reasonable and you don't mind if something hits the marble floors. Supermarkets like Carrefour, Eroski, AlCampo etc do very good quality pots and pans etc. The glasses in these places are also very good for day to day use. For something a little better, we got stuff from Zara Home. Lot better quality, more expensive but cheaper than the Zara shops in UK. We did look at El Corte Ingles but decided we didn't want to take out another mortgage! Kitchen gadgets (you know, the stuff you think will come in useful and you use once and then confine it to the back of the cupboard) from IKEA. Mind you, we do use the potato ricer and garlic crusher a lot, though not necessarily at the same time.

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I recently bought a complete set of Arcos kitchen knives, complete with a knife block, from the local ferreteria. The same ones were on sale in El Corte Ingles but the ferreteria had the set about 50 Euros cheaper. I'm really happy with them and gladly threw out my previous collection of non-matching, assorted and various rickety hand-me-down and IKEA knives I had been living with hitherto. The only thing I regret is not having done that earlier. Decent knives are the blessing of any kitchen. Most of the obscure and use-once-a-year stuff in the kitchen I bought from the local Chinese shops as well as mixing bowls, chopping boards etc which don't need to be fancy but are just there to get the job done. The chopping boards from my local Chinese are identical to those of IKEA but without the IKEA logo and cost half the price. The more heavy duty and electrical stuff is either from the ferreteria or smaller shops in my area. I generally buy stuff that can go wrong locally so I don't have to travel if it needs to be fixed or replaced. Some of the local shops know me quite well now and sometimes spontaneously give me freebies or reductions. I also think its important to support local traders as if we don't, they'll be gone when we need them. The crockery is from a local shop with odd items from El Corte Ingles and some of the more obscure and unusual items from second hand shops or Ebay. We bought the house semi-furnished but a lot of the stuff the previous owner left us is a bit iffy so we're replacing it bit by bit and are always on the look out for nice bits and pieces that would make the house more fit for our tastes. We've just recently changed all the door handles and hinges for example to replace the drab generic 1980s feel by something more individual and hopefully also more durable.

 

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when i am in Spain i really prefer the Ferreterias

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