Sarah and I went to Ikea, the Swedish meatball restaurant/furniture shop, this weekend to buy some things to prepare our house for all the coming excitement.
Whilst there, we rapidly realised that our plan to buy two china cabinets would be slightly complicated by the 44 page assembly manual. I have had trouble putting together bookshelves from Ikea, so building a functional china cabinet with glass, drawers, shelves and doors was perhaps not a good plan. The ikea price includes the cost of the item, but not the cost of marriage counselling, tears and broken plates from my complete inability to build things.
Luckily, on our way home, we stopped off at the Amish market we bought our table from, and they had a perfect match for us. This seems a better plan....
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Purchasing complicated items in pieces, and then attempting to assemble them, is highly over-rated. Guaranteed you'd be left, at the very end, with a piece (or two?) that was critical at the start. Amen for the Amish.
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