This weekend I headed out to Ikea to look at a piece of furntiure that I was sure would solve our entertainment woes. I had seen the peice in 2 of my favourite homewares magazines this month and loved it more and more each time I looked at the picture. I consulted Ari who wasn't convinced but was kind enough to say he trusted me and if it looked good in person to go for it. Got there, looked just as fantastic as the picture... better still had "Full Service Item" so my fears of flat pack hell were averted. Decided to take the plunge and bought it.
Went to the full service desk thinking I would be getting side board come out on a tray fully assembled (don't know why... crazy!) but got two extremely heavy flat packs. Got them into the car (thanks Dee and random stranger in the car park).
It took a couple of days before I could even contemplate attempting the build and when we opened the pack I was glad I waited. It was over 38 "ikea" steps. More than anything else I was worried it wouldn't look the same as the picture.
We started Sunday morning, wrestling with the tiny allan key. Ari eventually went up to the hardware store and got a allan key drill bit and we speeded through the rest of it. Cut to the end... it looks fantastic! Just like the picture (see below).
The title of this blog post is a little misleading... we were wondering as we built it about whether there was a site which was demo videos for Ikea products and how great that would be. Ari decided to search for it. "Ikea trollster video" of course with the misspelling there was not results. Maybe that's something we could start...
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