We All Key Ya For Ikea

We live in a proper house now, and with that change came some extra floor space for furniture. I decided last week that what my room needs is a “proper” display shelf. Cue some puttering around on Ikea’s website and a chunk of money gone from my bank account, and… well:

Unexpected benefit of the design: It doesn’t block the switched power outlet so I can use the light switch by the door to turn on a lamp sitting atop the new cabinet. Sweet!

As usual, Ikea does such a smart job providing visual instructions that even an easily confused duck like myself can follow along with relative ease. At one point I needed Vyx to help get the side glass panels into place (absolutely a two-person job, the instructions said so) but even that didn’t take very long. Mind you I also needed her to make sense of the instruction for getting the metal top piece into place. It’s a good thing she’s so smart or I’d still be at the build an hour or so later.

I thought I was being clever by not hauling the entire shipping box up the stairs before starting the build, and it wasn’t actually a bad idea to take each piece up as needed… but I absolutely did not save myself the workload by piecing it out. I still had to shift almost exactly the same amount of mass (minus the cardboard, which weighs little) plus I had to climb and descend the stairs that many more times.

In other words: Owie. My back hates me right now.

Worth it, though?

From top to bottom and left to right: Foam pickaxe reading “Remember Tunnel 17” from the Digger comic, Tolo brand rubber ducky, plush Teto from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, plush Kafka “Creation” (a cat-cake… thing) from Honkai Star Rail, Lizard Doggo from Satisfactory, Quaggan from Guild Wars 2, and Ryo-ohki from Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki.

Yeah. I think so.