It you’re anything like me, you buy the majority of your home furniture from IKEA. I have always loved the stores and found their furniture to be both affordable and easy to assemble. However, all my love for IKEA came crashing down like a ton of bricks when I learned what is really in their furniture…

Seattle resident James L. Sutter took to Twitter to post a photo of a table he had bought from IKEA. When Sutter sawed the table in half, he was shocked by what he saw.

“I always knew that Ikea furniture was fake wood – particle board with a veneer on top. Fine, whatever. But last night I sawed into my desk and discovered the particle board *itself* is a lie,” he wrote. “FOLKS IKEA WOOD IS LITERALLY CARDBOARD. (To be clear, I don’t have a problem with this: it’s cheap, light, and works. But it was extremely surprising!).”

I always knew that Ikea furniture was fake wood—particle board with a veneer on top. Fine, whatever. But last night I sawed into my desk and discovered the particle board *itself* is a lie.

FOLKS IKEA WOOD IS LITERALLY CARDBOARD. pic.twitter.com/0vFYaBu5J8

— James L. Sutter (@jameslsutter) January 23, 2018

The tweet immediately went viral, with other social media users talking about the various problems they have had with IKEA.

“I was helping someone carry my wife’s IKEA desk down some stairs and a corner of it literally snapped off in my hand. I was at the lower end, so the desk fell on me. If I hadn’t been on a landing turning the corner, I’d probably be dead,” wrote one user.

“I have an ikea desk and I’ve smashed it so hard with my elbow and my fist while gaming that if it was made out of cardboard it would have a huge hole in it. The desk is self built from an wooden desk panel from Ikea,” another commented.

The backlash got to be so great that IKEA ended up releasing a statement in an attempt to explain what happened.

“At IKEA all of our products are designed with form, function, sustainability, affordability and quality in mind. In order to minimize waste, we strive to use materials in the most efficient way,” IKEA said. “By using a strong honeycomb pattern paper filling inside some products it allows us to produce more pieces using less raw materials and at the same time reduce the price for people without compromising on quality. Product material information is clearly displayed in store and online.”

Though the packaging did say that the product was not made solely from the wood the customer expects, this does all seem a little bit deceiving to me…

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