>>>>>>IKEA is not so simple. My ex brother in law, great guy, bought a do it yourself bathroom cabinet from them. 300 pieces. Those Swedes, they don't mess around.
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>>>>>FWIW, we've put together a ton of IKEA stuff (mostly bookcases). Never had parts missing, and rarely had any problems. (In our house, assembly that doesn't require power tools is generally mine.)
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>>>>In that case you must not have bought the bathroom cabinet with over 300 parts. That was a full day's work.
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>>>Ikea needs to improved anyway.
>>>see:
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>>>www.ikeahackers.net
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>>I turned a metal platform bed into a very high platform bed for my son in a room with very high ceilings
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>>Screwed the bed frame to the wall in the corner above the door (so two sides where fixed to the wall)
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>>Cut a leg up and dropped one leg into the cut off part of another to get a very long leg in the corner away from the two sides screwed to the wall .
>>So the bed was above door height and he had all his floor space clear.
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>So he has to climb up the leg to get to bed ? :-}

Good point Sherlock. I must have extended the ladder as well (it was a while ago). It was all good except when he broke his arm. Then it was mattress on the floor time.