I did this!
Though I didn't do it alone…
The slogan for Ikea is "dreams to take home with you". For me it was a bit of a dread. It started just by going there after having heard about how crowded it gets there on the weekend. Don't know if it's because we arrived in the evening, but it was actually a lot less crowded than it was last time I went there in the middle of the week! I went there with my boyfriend to pick up a kitchen trolley. We waited about a month for the local branch it to get and it finally arrived. After bringing it home, there was no way around it, we had to put it together (though his dad assured me that in case of an emergency we could always call him and he would do it for us ;))
So last Saturday morning we dedicated to the BEKVÄM kitchen trolley…
And we did it in 2.5 hours! I'm soooooooooo proud!
I'm not a terribly "handy" person and so I began mostly with reading the instructions to my boyfriend (which was in charge of the physical work…). As we went through it I was worried we'd end up with too many or too little screws (stranger things have happened). But we got the hang of it, and in the end, when my boyfriend got tired, I was the one doing the dirty work! (the little feminist in me was somewhat proud)
So yes, I'd like to think we conquered Ikea! In 2.5 hours :) …