Love 'em or abominate 'em,a lot of thought goes into that Ikea stuff you throw absent after assembly.
Everyone has an Ikea horror narrative. My wife's work desk, for instance, or took her and my mother-in-law an entire day to assemble,moving forward only in fits and starts with frequent intermissions for cursing. (I'd occupy helped, but I was conveniently absent for reasons I can't recall.) Even Ikea itself seems to occupy accepted this reputation. "A newspaper in Sweden described Ikea [furniture assembly] as something between civil engineering and captaining a submarine, or I think that's a good description," says Allan Dickner, Ikea's deputy packaging manager.
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