Where would we be without IKEA?\u00a0 For me, IKEA is furniture that I’ve always called temporary – furniture I plan on buying but not moving with, because surely in my next home, I will want more permanent furniture.\u00a0 Isn’t it funny then that more often than not, I find myself either moving with my IKEA furniture, or selling it, moving, and then replacing it with more IKEA furniture!\u00a0 And why not!\u00a0 It’s less than half the price of furniture store furniture, it’s quite attractive, and it has just one intrinsic flaw.\u00a0 It comes unassembled!<\/p>\n
I would not venture to describe myself as handy or an avid reader.\u00a0 And the assembly of IKEA furniture requires both to some extent.\u00a0 But more than being either handy or an avid reader, you just need to be able to follow pictorial directions.\u00a0 There might be 34 steps and it might take the better part of a weekend, but even a layman like myself can get the allen wrench twisting and ultimately get a bedroom all set up!\u00a0 There’s an enormous amount of satisfaction when you’ve followed all the steps and you look down in the plastic bag and find you’ve used every last part.\u00a0 This weekend, mission accomplished!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Where would we be without IKEA?\u00a0 For me, IKEA is furniture that I’ve always called temporary – furniture I plan on buying but not moving with, because surely in my next home, I will want more permanent furniture.\u00a0 Isn’t it funny then that more often than not, I find myself either moving with my IKEA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n