IKEA: classic or dud?

I have all the furniture I need. Somehow everything I got was a hand-me-down. Did you know very many people have at least one TV they want to get rid of? Not to mention comfy chairs.

man i know, there is no room for more furniture here, but i would love a nice chair in my room!

ditto! with an ottoman!

Our ottoman serves as a stepstool for the short, long dog to jump on the couch.

We had to get someone to put together our PAX/KOMPLEMENT wardrobe because the thing is freakin huge with giant doors. We got halfway done with expedit but we had to hammer in those little pegs and we were afraid the noise was bad for the neighbors so we'll finish tomorrow.

Be warned when you go to lift up that 5x5 Expedit - thing is heavy.

I really hate those little peg dowels. They work out in the end but they're a real bitch to line up and drive in.

Yeah, does seem heavy. We have it set up so we can just stand it straight up almost directly into the spot where it's going to go.

I remember the oh-so-funny moments when Mr. Jaq would hammer on one side piece, and the other side would fly off the pegs. We are disassembling our two on Wednesday, then reassembling sometime the next week. Not looking forward to it.

I did manage to hang a heavy duty pots and pans rail w/drywall anchors today, which is way more handy than I usually am. And it's actually level! Of course Mrs. Hurting was the one who secured the wardrobe to the wall while I was out, which is probably a tougher job.

Expedit makes horrendous sounds when you hammer it

I bought a MALM bed frame recently,

http://mocoloco.com/archives/ikea_malm_headboard_2007.jpg

and it looks great, but by god does it have sharp corners :( As my shins are attesting to with the puncture wounds and bruises all over them owwie.

Also I love their kids toys. I bought one of the crabs. Here is a strange man I do not know wearing one on his head. God bless Flickr.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2288/2247094557_a30a6e597a.jpg?v=0

i don't even know what an expedit is.
some sort of small mammal, i assume?

joke slaughtering xpost

i like that bed!

me too! thats pretty much what we need.

My boyfriend and I had the similar MALM bed for about two years and the last six months was nothing but painful, incessant squeaking. UGH!! I bought a mismatched mattress & boxed spring set to replace it.

One thing from IKEA that I own and love is this little jewelry tree which fits perfectly on the window ledge in our bathroom. The window is painted shut/opens into an alley so this is the perfect place for it.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3091/2774263521_b001cecbe1.jpg?v=0

Beside it is Olivia Newton John's "Physical" melted and molded into a bowl to hold my head bands :D

Nice tree; nice hair clips. :D

hahaha those are a leftover from when I actually had hair long enough to pin! :P

this shit does NOT FUCKING WORK

i have an expedit i have taken apart and put back together four times now (for each house move). still going strong.

I think I got one with a few defective holes or pegs -- I got all the way to putting the other side and base on and nothing holds. I'm on hold with Ikea now trying to get them to get this shit out of my apartment and give me another one.

Beside it is Olivia Newton John's "Physical" melted and molded into a bowl to hold my head bands :D

hahaha awesome!!! did you make it yourself?

hurting, that expedit is the most stressful shit to put together. i did it by myself and it took me about 2 1/2 hours for everything to get together in the right way and tbh i'm not sure how i did it.

I started a "case" with Ikea - I'm going to try to get them to deliver a replacement and just have their goons put it together b/c I have no time with the beginning of law school right now.

to be honest, I think that H may have destroyed some of the peg holes by hammering too hard (she tried to do some of it by herself earlier). But this is inconsequential. Cardinal rule: it is not your wife's fault, it is Ikea's fault.

Oh man, there isn't an Ikea anywhere near us, but already I have this sweet scapegiat! Thx Hurtnig.

i *love* putting together ikea and ikea-like stuff.
LOVE. IT.

I've put together lots of Ikea stuff in the past and I usually like it. This was by far the worst I've ever dealt with. The thing just needs a couple more screws or braces or something to keep the shelves even and keep the pegs from popping out while you're assembling it.

I have to admit my MALM bed squeaks a bit. But the boys might not have screwed it all together properly, dunno. It sits solidly enough. I should point out the shelves to the side of it are a new addition to the MALM set: theyre seperate, and a bitch to assemble. They slide in behind the headboard under a shelf: handy!

The Malm bed was tempting, with its handy headboard, but it wouldn't accept the Sultan Alsarp storage base that I love so much. I really want to stop using Ikea words now. Can you imagine working there??

Hurting, iirc the 5x5 Expedit required both of us toward the end of assembly - one to hammer and one to hold everything together. With the 4x4, it's a one-person job, but the larger one is a different beast.

Can you imagine working there??

You mean it wouldn't be all meatballs and swedish fishes while we shelved Billy bits and Omar legs and Malm parts?

Beside it is Olivia Newton John's "Physical" melted and molded into a bowl to hold my head bands :D

hahaha awesome!!! did you make it yourself?

-- tehresa, Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:23 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Yeah it's really easy! Stick your oven on 200 degrees or so, place a record on a coffee can, and it gets hot enough in 30-45 seconds that you can take it out and mold it. If you don't like the shape, you can stick it back into the oven and try again! I have a few in my bathroom actually, I made one into a sort of triangle shape that holds all the hairbrushes in one neat, tidy place by their bristles. (xpost)

I really, really want an expedit. I have a bunch of Billy bookcases, some of which I painted, but the Expedit just appeals to my shelf-crazy psychosis.

Hurting, iirc the 5x5 Expedit required both of us toward the end of assembly - one to hammer and one to hold everything together. With the 4x4, it's a one-person job, but the larger one is a different beast.

Yes, we did that part with two people, but it wouldn't hold. Some of the peg holes just wouldn't take and pegs kept sliding out, while others seemed too tight and the pegs just wouldn't go in no matter how hard we hammered (and of course continuing to hammer the tight ones seemed to make the loose ones worse)

yeah, an expedit really seems dreamy right now. i wonder if i got rid of one of my desks if there would be room? the 2nd desk is really used as shelfy space anyway, since i don't have enough shelving.

I probably posted this picture already but I want to show off my IKEA painting skillz!

http://photos-e.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v274/224/57/516053577/n516053577_632252_6566.jpg

I still haven't painted the extra shelves that slip in, or stuck wallpaper on the other shelf's backing... booo. Maybe I should try to do that this weekend while I can still work outside :(

kind of a silly execution but lol idea - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ygeihSPlk

Classic in the main but mail order's dud. £50 to ship a Billy bookcase, that's taking the Michael.

http://carpetblog.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/ikea_1.jpg

Ikea Brooklyn has the most appalling customer service I have ever dealt with in my life. I would like to see some of the people I have dealt with over the last week and a half (to resolve a simple $400 refund) fucked in the ass with grundtaal rails, and I'm generally neither vindictive nor particularly picky about customer service.

Never again.

I wish my life was perfect like in the IKEA catalogue.

We got all 4 Expedits apart with only one smashed finger, one chipped shelf, and two missing pegs. Re-assembly starts tomorrow night, oh joy.

I dig the malm bed but sadly it wouldn't fit in our bedroom. Good thing we decided to measure before we bought it.

Ended up with the HEIMDAL bedframe with two HELMER office file cabinets for bedside tables:

http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/63448_PE171057_S3.jpg

Expedit reassembly is not going too badly at all:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/2809850452_46b1112de8.jpg
I have to glue the chipped shelf before the 2nd brown shelf gets put back together, but otherwise it's looking good.

looks like you live in a *loft*

We do, at that - converted 1904 rope factory/warehouse.

moving 7 or 8 blocks in my neighborhood, and decided the 5x5 expedit didnt have a chance of making it through the foyer/staircase at the new place unless i took it apart. things were going okay, but then a few pegs broke off in the peg-holes. i know i can get new pegs, but has anyone here had luck with extracting the broken pegs? some are sticking out, so i can grab em with pliers, but some are not. my idea is to screw a small screw partway into the peg, then pull out the peg/screw combo.

any advice? i really had to write carefully to avoid some HILARIOUS pun about pegging/screwing

my idea is to screw a small screw partway into the peg, then pull out the peg/screw combo.

Sounds like a good plan to me!

(xp) Your idea sounds pretty good. Those pegs are made of fairly soft wood, so you may be able to drive a small diameter screw into them without them splitting, but you may want to pre-drill just to make sure. If that doesn't work I'd suggest just drilling a hole the same diameter as the peg to pretty much erase it. If you do that you'll probably need to use some epoxy or wood glue w/ the new pegs when you reassemble.

If the peg splits, that may just make it easier to extract with pliers.

69, do you have a set of needlenose pliers? Could be useful.

i do have needlenose pliers, but no drill. as an unfortunate aside, the drill i borrowed from my new neighbor last night (he's a landscaper) had something on it that im allergic to, so my hand and wrist are red and swollen today wtf