Christians have church, Muslims have mosque and Jews have temple. Swedish people have IKEA.
With 35 million visits to Swedish IKEA stores every year, you are pretty much expected as a Swede to know how to work your flat pack furniture. In fact, if you are a real Viking you should be able to put just about any piece of furniture together without so much as looking at the instructions as it should all be completely intuitive.
I bring shame on my country. In the past I have had to rely on the help from Italians, Americans, Australians, South Africans and Norwegians to put my homes together. Its a wonder they've let me keep my passport.
Although I have successfully failed at assembling a number of various furniture types, beds will always have a special place in my heart.
First bed I tried to put together with the Bestie and our favourite girl from Minnesota in our flat in Sandweiler, Luxembourg. 6 hours after kick off, it looked beautiful. It was however not quite as beautiful when viewed from the floor after having fallen through it. We had to call in boys to fix it.
Now with the second bed, my entire group of Swedish girlfriends came to my flat on Belair, Luxembourg for Scandinavian engineering assistance and moral support. Another 6 hours later, I had a bed. Again, until I actually went to sleep in it and woke up on the floor the next morning. We had to call in boys once more.
As my new bed arrived in some beautiful flat boxes delivered to my house, I decided I was finally going to do it. I am a strong independent woman of 2014 and damn it, I will build my own bed. Possible with a very specific Destiny's Child tune in the background.
And Eureka! It does seem like after almost 29 years on this planet of which 19 were spent in the land of flat packs - I have finally found my IKEA gene. In less than two hours my new bed was ready to be slept in. And no one fell through the frame this time!
Thank you Ingvar Kamprad*.
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| Challenge accepted! |
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| Getting there... |
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| Mission accomplished! |
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| Two people needed? Pfffft.... |
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