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RapierFugue -> RE: The Stupid Stuff (11/18/2010 2:09:28 PM)
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer
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ORIGINAL: RapierFugue
I thought "yeah, you've tried to put one of the fuckers together too eh?".
Yes, and they're utter bastards. And I've really, really grown to hate MDF and chipboard.
To be fair (and I always try to be fair!) IKEA stuff tends to come in 2 or 3 “flavours” per range; a) cheap as chips/student flavour, b) a bit more expensive and c) quite pricey. In my experience a) is only slightly better than the utter crap you get from places like MFI, but the b) and c) options are normally fine – I’ve got a set of "Billy" (bookcases and CD/DVD towers) which are “proper” wood, and they've been taken apart and bunged back together in many moves over the years, and still come together again beautifully every time.
The cheap stuff though is, as you say, a living nightmare of MDF nastiness. The point is, I reckon, that even clever design (and some of their designs are very clever) can’t make up for basic materials.
One thing I do like about IKEA though is that they make it a point to use as few tools as possible; normally it's a) a hammer (if it's got a back-board that needs nailing/tacking, b) that slightly cheap Allen key they give you for free (I've got a set of H-Pro Allen keys though, so I use them instead[;)]) and c) a screwdriver (and most of their stuff has dual-type heads, meaning you can use a cross-head or flat screwdriver, so once again I break out my pro tools, coz I'm anal like that [;)]) ... compare this with MFI-type designs, where you seem to require at least 50 tools to put up a shelf, and at least 47 of them won’t be included.
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