Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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    Depends on the furniture you buy,surely, but at least I have not been able to produce any furniture cheaper (just material costs) vs. factory build simply because they can cut more corners/get cheaper materials/can use techniques that would need more sophisticated equipment than I can.

    Unless you compare it to massively and individually build carpenter furniture I always am more expensive (okay it’s usually more solid and individual, though)

    • Yes you’re right. The bed for instance was 300 € material costs using 27mm glued wood beech, wher you can buy stuff using plywood for cheaper. But it looks much better and will last much longer.

      So in terms of quality it is somewhere in between factory and carpenter buildt. For furniture it is well worth it imo. and i couldn’t find quality stuff for less than the associated material costs. Yet you can find a lot of plywood furniture that is way to overprized because “designer” or whatever.