Ikea is a lot of things--affordable, innovative, fun, crazy, good for building assembly skills. There's one thing it's not good for and that's heirloom quality furniture. I have 2 beech-colored Ikea dressers. I'm not that fond of them, but I've decided to live with them until I find a dresser that I like and can afford. Well, for the past several--oh--months, one of the drawers on my beech "Malm" dresser wasn't shutting. The bottom and back had sort of warped. I finally got around to fixing it this weekend. I repaired it using a complicated technique called "duct tape the hell out of it."
Broken Drawer
Warp-osity
Duct tape to the rescue!
And voila--drawer's fixed!
duct tapes are great. BTY I also love IKEA, below is my post about it.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ongrowthtrack.com/2007/05/14/inexpensive-furniture/
Thanks for the comment! Ikea's good for some things..but I'm trying to get sturdier furniture now.
ReplyDeletegotta love duct tape- I held together a car for three months once using duct tape!
ReplyDeleteI love Ikea for lots of stuff, but have always found dressers and drawers to be problematic. I was out these this weekend though and those Hemnes dressers seemed quite sturdy. Craigslist is also a great resource for old wood dressers crying out for love.