Never ever ever buy furniture in a box!

[backtoblue]

The holes are drilled wrong so I gotta get out the drill. This little adventure is not fun anymore...

[Angry Dragon]

1. They always supply a drill in my boxes

[backtoblue]

2. They shoulda supplied me with

Anxiety meds and alcohol....

[Binkie The Clown]

3. I've always had success with furniture in a box, and whenever the holes were drilled wrong...

...so far it has always turned out that I was trying to assemble it wrong, and the holes were right all along.

[ashling]

8. This has been my experience as well

I only had to drill new holes and add bracing AFTER it fell apart.

[OriginalGeek]

4. i just put together a Sauder bookcase last week

never again. Worst design I've ever had (and I've built a lot of cheap, crappy "furniture" from boxes over the years). This was just a simple 7 foot tall by 3 feet wide unit with 4 shelves. All held together with those cam bolt thingies BUT the front facing edges were 6' long trim pieces that had grooves cut into the back side and they "slid" onto leading edge of the side walls. All particle board. I don't know if anybody told these numbnuts at Sauder but particle board ain't given to sliding.


I ended up having to hammer them to get them all the way on and, of course, that ruined the bottoms where I was hitting.


So if any of you watch the Santa Clarita Diet and remember the episode from this season where Timothy Olyphant was admiring the craftmanship of a custom built bookcase you'll understand why I was laughing and crying my ass off at that part. I may have to get me some tools so I can build my own stuff out of real wood. Even as a complete n00b I should be able to build something better than that Sauder piece of shit.

[backtoblue]

11. I got in over my head

It's an electric fireplace with fifty million different pieces. Five hours later....I've got the frame finally together lol

[RandomAccess]

5. BTDT -- Been there, done that.

Lived thru it, but barely.

[earthshine]

6. If you can wait, call the company, tell them what parts are bad, and they will send replacements. nt

[ashling]

7. You are supposed to open the furniture box

BEFORE opening the liquor box.

[backtoblue]

10. Hehe

[Leith]

9. I Put Together About Half My Furniture

Every dresser, every bookcase, the entertainment center, the dining room table, the kitchen cart, and the futon. When my new bed was delivered, the deliveryman's partner was sick that day. I helped him put the bed together because I had experience doing that sort of thing.

Don't hate me, but I had fun putting them together. On the rare occasions that I have a couple hours free and nothing to do, I go to the Ikea store just to look around.

[kwassa]

12. well, there is always this.