Reviews of IKEA Oshawa - Design Studio (Interior Designer)

Maureen B

Erica and Mauricio made my kitchen planning experience informative and enjoyable. I would recommend their services.

Gowrishankar Bala

Need IKEA here at Oshawa!! Don’t think design studio will be helpful.

Fay Ra

Favourite place to go furniture shopping

Somayeh Abdolrahimi

Can anyone tell me the point of having this store? What a waste of space! Common IKEA! You need to open an actual store I'm Durham Region!!!

Sarah Nazim

Pricey

Ragu Rajaguru

Love the products but hate idea of design centre, would shop there more often if we had a location in Durham Region. Bring one to North Oshawa , service Durham Region and kawartha lakes

Tammy S

What’s the point? Build an actual store here! You guys need to build in Durham Region. No one can understand why the East GTA isn’t being looked at?

Eli Walker

Why on earth would IKEA close the pickup store in Whitby and then open a Design Store? I loved the pickup store, I could order many things online and for a small fee go pick them up in Whitby. Now the pick up store is gone and there has been no delivery from IKEA North York for any product. With the pandemic the delivery would have given IKEA many new customers, unfortunately they lost an old one.

B H

Terrible overall IKEA experience. We paid $39.99 for a “design session” for someone to use the online tool that you can access from home yourself, in the end, they gave us two lists, one where we could go that day to pick up items, and another list for items that are on back order. They are tethered to the North York location, so even though there was stock in Etobicoke they couldn’t place the order for that location, we were told we could drive there right now and the items should still be available. The girl that helped us wasn’t an expert on the online tool, she asked for help several times deleting duplicate items. When she gave us our price list at the end, right away it looked like it was too much, I said it looked a bit high for what we are ordering (a wet bar), she said it was right. I asked for a detailed item list to see what she selected, she had duplicated the cabinets and countertop, there was double the required quantity of each item. She couldn’t figure out how to correct it and needed help. The service at the Etobicoke location was brutal to top the whole experience off. You still have to take a number and wait forever for someone to serve you in the kitchen section, just to print a new sheet out and go downstairs and pay. Save yourself the hassle if you’re going with IKEA, just go directly to the actual store and plan your kitchen for free and pickup what you can on the spot. Save your $40 and avoid this “design studio” at all costs.

Shane Stafford

We purchased our new house and bridged our mortgage so we had time to do our kitchen Reno. We paid our fee to have kitchen design in the oshawa centre , spent 2 hours designing. Our designer assured us that our kitchen would be delivered Jan 10th minus a few odds and ends in which we had to drive to Vaughn to pick up handles when available. we paid in full $10,000. Without notice our money was returned back to our card 6 days later. We phoned customer service 8 times as they kept dropping our call!!!!! ( real professional) and they had no record of our kitchen!!!!!!!! Long story short we had to pay out of pocket driving items back to Vaughn from port hope. Zero communication , customer service said it was due to insufficient funds I said no problem I’ll print off our balance previous and we will see who’s lying ????. They also kept our design fee. They finally admitted it was their fault and they sold off pieces of our kitchen!! What a nightmare never again !!!!!! You want a good kitchen ? Pay about the same ? Get professionals who know what they are doing? Go see Felicia at ROCKWOOD KITCHENS in peterborough!!! Top quality , professional designers they were able to have kitchen built for our upcoming Reno date . I’d give ikea a zero if that was an option!!!!!

Sam SS

I agree, what is the point of this store? IKEA is the Walmart of furniture stores NOT a high-end designer place, come on, seriously!! Durham Region collectively has a minimum population of half a million people and the best came to your mind is opening a design studio, as if there is anything to design, everything is boxed. You don't need a genius to tell you just open an entire store. Learn from COSTCO, they already have 2 stores in Durham (Ajax and Oshawa) and the third one is coming next Jan 2022 Oshawa North.

Hair Shop

Was good