SCREW-ing myself nuts!
Anyway(s), bought a table from Ikea over the weekend. As I have been doing a lot of work at home lately (unfortunately!), figured I needed a better workstation than the low shelf that has been doubling as my internet + working + chatting station since I moved to Pantai Hillpark a year ago. Terribly bad for my back and posture as I have to hunch over it.
Well, I was all excited over the table (it has a white top with silver legs) and I didn't bother to check how to fix it before I bought it. I figured DIY from Ikea would be a piece of cake. Well, lesson learnt! Always check how to assemble something before buying.
Actually the assembling of the legs parts itself was easy. It was the screwing of the table legs onto the top that drove me NUTS, pun totally intended.
Screw, screw, screw for all you're worth! Fuh...
The stupid %&*#@ pre-drilled holes for the nuts/screws were so damn small. It was so difficult to screw the nuts in with my bare hands. I practically had to half hammer, half force it in, all the while gritting my teeth. I don't usually have a problem with simple DIY stuff OK, but this was really a test of what limited brute strength and boundless patience I possessed.
Bearing in mind, there were 5 nuts for each leg, making a whopping total of 20 nuts to be screwed. In the midst of screwing, PL called and told me that her housemate who had bought the same table and had it fixed up for her saw the guys from Ikea actually drilling holes to make them bigger prior to screwing! %&*#%!!! No wonder, so damn hard to screw!! Ahhhhhhhh!!
It took me freakin' 3 hours, from 8.30 pm to nearly 11.30 pm to finally get the table to have some form of stability.
Wobbly table with legs that are not completely straight
My work process--> I screwed (using a screwdriver) for all I was worth for as long as I could take it before taking a break for MSN or toilet or a snack to rest my pitifully red and aching hands, which are still sore at the moment.
*ouch* whine whine, my hands hurt!
Ten breaks, one snack, many complain SMSes, two phone calls, and a few MSN conversations later, I managed to get all 20 nuts screwed more than three quarters of the way in. Thankfully, my housemate helped me with the last quarter of the screwing. The table is at least of acceptable wobble-ness now. You know like those old wooden exam desks where you need to slip a piece of folded up newspaper under one of the legs?
Using it to blog ermmm..work right now. =D
Before
Drab and dull. This is an old pix, if not
the table would be cramp & cluttered as well...
After
Trendy and bright with an illusion of ample space! Whadya think? Almost as good as the room makeovers in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy eh? I can almost hear Thom Filicia (the guy in charged of interior deco) purring his approval. =D
Horrible?! Any suggestions then?!! Hee hee
posted by N.J.A.P.F. @ 10:38 PM
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