Making Hauga

We are in the final phase of our domestic renovations; assembling new furniture. We’ve gone for some Hagua units from Ikea. I quite like assembling Ikea furniture. I’ve not done it for a while and they’ve found a way to make it even simpler and quicker now. Panels just slot together and the huge number of little nails that you used to have to use to put the back on have been replaced with a few push-fit plastic things.

Ikea seem to have minimised furniture to make it cheaper in the same way that aircraft designers minimise planes to reduce weigh. There was nothing in the kit that didn’t absolutely need to be there.