I believe I may have assembled my last piece of IKEA furniture–for a while, anyway. Not that I mind putting together furniture, quite the opposite, actually. I know I’m not making anything since this isn’t carpentry. However, I do derive some joy from having had a tiny hand in the finished product.

This one was my most complicated assembly to date. It felt almost like a final exam of sorts; now I can graduate to even more advanced furniture, if I so choose.

One of the neater details on this piece is the use of the two hex wrenches to hold it together. This also serves as a handy storage spot for those wrenches. They will need to be pressed into service again one day since this one’s not going to fit out the door in one piece.

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