ZombieKitten said:

I may go out today to find it now.

CarrieMpls said:

try putting the Hopen bed frame together

and then the joy of it is, when you finally get it finished and it looks great, you get to spend almost as much time (4 hours) taking it apart when you move

then you get to put it back together again

i almost just left it in my old apartment

3121Addict said:

I have assembled and disassembed my baby cot 5 times now there is a real trick to it if you are only one person

First, I must say that I Ikea. LOVE IT!!! I've never had a problem putting any of the furniture I've gotten from there together, but I've always been good at constructing things

jess555ja said:

I'm good @ constructing things too, but the shits be like 1000 pieces!

CalhounSq said:

I reckon you got really unlucky my sister in law had a lot of problems with the baby cot they bought, because they sold her a return, so it actually had some pieces missing!

My whole house is pretty much all IKEA, and the only problem we had was when we bought our shelving for the living room, some pieces were made in germany while others somewhere else, and the wood did not match, and the whole thing was a right pain in the bum to get right

CalhounSq said:

It is, but I kind of like putting stuff together. Whenever my parents need to put a piece of furniture together, they always call my ass. It's fun for me.




Oh my God. I'm a nerd

I love assembling IKEA furniture! I wish there was a job like that where I could get paid for doing that.

the last thing I purchased from IKEA was some lamp shades. and that was only becasue they finally got self self checkout registers.



Otherwise my shopping trips to IKEA tend to be look around find a couple small things, then get to the line and decide it not worth standing in line for this garbage.

i finally got a catalogue after 2 years of requesting one online and numerous stops to the store in person and when i got a chance to look through it i was disappointed as nothing really grabs me. same when walking through the store. decided maybe i've moved past ikea i'm soon going to sell my ikea livingroom pieces as they will look too modern next to all these old family antiques.

lol so i just had to go get it to see what shelves you were talking about...
billy bookcase black/patterned finish. this one?

emm said:

oh that is cool, its a MISSONI print

emm said:

That's it!!!

Isn't it lovely?

I WANT IT!

Ass Emm beat me to it, I was gonna say it's a BILLY.

And coming from the home of IKEA, I have nothing else to add. There's been other IKEA threads before and I think I said it all on those ones.

ZombieKitten said:

Teacher said:

so do you like the stuff or not?

only think i really thought was cool out of the new catalogue was the rationell pull out ironing board.

My strategy is to make my wife do it. I figure if I carry it in the least she can do is put it together.

ugh six chairs? I am okay with shelves, but get really bored quickly with more complicated stuff like dressers that have multiple drawers to assemble.

Ikea's great, but not the best. I put their stuff together and sometimes the holes aren't perfect, and sometimes it feels very flimsy.

Sometimes it better to let the pros assemble it

As Homer Simpson said (as he was trying to assemble a barbeque, but had to use the French instructions because he spilled cement on the English ones): "Le grille?! What the hell is that?!"

But I know you can do it!

I just watched this very recently:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...j6mw_JiLM0

CarrieMpls said:

How fuckin' cool would it be to have like three of those against a pink or purple wall?

Though, only with stuff on it. By itself it gives me a headache.

I love going to Ikea and my inner child despises me for it.

HobbesLeCute said:

My inner child is fine until we get to the orgy of consumerism that is the Checkout Line. Or, the Giant Checkout Space That Is Always Crammed Full Of People. And then we just wanna go home and shop on Etsy.

I would say that about HALF of the furniture in my house is from IKEA.



I'm not a "handy" guy ...but the IKEA stuff is very, very easy to put together. You just have to study the instructions very, very carefully.

The only drawback to IKEA is that the stuff doesn't last very long. But it's cheap and it's nice-looking.

retina said:

omg I just watched this one!

http://www.youtube.com/wa...axbJ4&NR=1

PurpleJedi said:

My book shelves from IKEA have lasted for years and years now.

ZombieKitten said:

I love how that one guy is basically just babbling on about nothing since it's for the German market anyway and people just want to hear the sound of Swedish.

emm said:

It's handy and cheap but the making of it employs a lot of children and adult underpaid workers round the world and it makes its owner Ingvar Kamprad one of the world's richest people.

retina said:

I LOVE that they pour the alcohol over everything

NDRU said:

I did it!


the chairs we had before were folding ones, which we can now use when we have parties