>>>>>>>>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 ? :-}
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>>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.
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>I assume that happened when he fell off the bed ?
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>>Then it was mattress on the floor time.

Those ikea beds have a nice barriers around them to prevent that sort of thing.

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/90179786/

No he slipped over playing football on the lawn and completely snapped both bones. He's still got two metal plates in his forearm. Doctors said if he carried on growing they'd have to come out when it healed but eventually they decided that on balance it was probably best to leave them in as theres a lot of plumbing in there.