My New Favorite Place for Furniture ...

I am in love with IKEA. I received the current catalogue a few weeks ago, and I was impressed with the look and the prices. I decided that IKEA might be a more affordable way to go on some furniture that I need throughout my house. I am in the process of making a wishlist and prioritizing what pieces of furniture I need, but I have been in desparate need of bookshelves for a while. I decided that would be my test furniture to see how I would like ordering the furniture online and putting it together.

I bought cheap shelving units ($19.99 each) in the Lerberg line. I decided to get two because I envisioned that I would use the shelves to replace the shelving units I currently have my books on in the back room at my house. Shipping was a bit pricey, but I still was able to order the units for less than I could buy similar shelves in a local store. The first plus to IKEA.

The shelves arrived yesterday, and of course, I could not wait to open the boxes and start assembling last night. When I buy furniture or other items that need assembly, I am always looking for easy assembly and/or easy instructions. For example, I will not buy anything that requires assembly from Lowes because not only are their instructions hard to follow, I have found that they are often wrong. On the other hand, I will buy whatever I can from Target because, although the assembly may be a little on the complicated side, the instructions are awesome and alleviate all of the frustration in the assembly. As I opened the boxes and pulled out the instruction book, I was a little worried because the instructions did not look easy to follow. However, I ended up being pleasantly surprised at the ease of assembling the shelves, which took right around thirty minutes each.

Once assembled, I saw a completely different, much needed use of the shelves. My dining room, although I have lived in my house for two years, looked like a storage room because of my boxes of law school books and notes. When I assembled the first shelf, it looked perfect for the dining room so that I could unpacked some of the boxes. After the assembly of the shelves and unpacking of the boxes, in a little over an hour and a half I was able to turn my dining room from a storage room to a room that is able to function as a dining room. The only bad thing is that I now realize I need two more shelving units to take care of the situation in the back room at my house!