Review: Ikea
I recently went to IKEA...
and I got an IKEA "RÅSKOG" trolley. I had been planning to buy this for a long time, and was excited to put it together.
I chose a nice forest green colour, I preferred it more over the other ones that were available. The trolley by itself is £25 (137.5 STEEM), and I had to buy the wooden lid for it separately which was £6 (33 STEEM).
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the parts!
I was a bit intimidated at first, as there were a lot of parts, and a lot of screws to use for putting it together. But I was determined to set this up!
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the instructions
IKEA always has really clear instructions, it was an A1 sheet of paper, double sided, with large images to follow.
After checking I had all the necessary materials (no missing screws!).
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first step
So, following the instructions, I lined up the correct pieces and realised... I needed a screwdriver!
The kit did not come with one, which I thought was weird as it had come with a spanner-type tool. Luckily, I had a screwdriver from my previous post of making the shelf!
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screws gone wrong
Unfortunately, even though I had a screwdriver, I ran into this issue. In the picture above, one of the 2 screws on this piece didn't screw all the way in. I don't know why this happened, and I couldn't screw it any further in, maybe it was an issue with the actual product?
It was still firm so I just moved on. I had to repeat this step (as it needed another set of this).
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lining up the pieces
For the next step, I lined up the "bracket" piece to one of the just constructed pieces from the previous step. All I had to do was screw these together, and make sure it was stable. This wasn't really hard at all.
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the connected brackets
As you can see in the above picture, I managed to successfully connect the brackets together! It was all coming together now.
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a bit tricky to picture
This part was a bit fiddly, I needed to use both my hands for it so it was hard to show the process. I've taken a picture of the paper instructions to help visualise what I had to do!
After slotting the "basket" or shelfs of the trolley on, I had to line up the holes of the shelf and a bracket. Then, I had to connect these together.
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the shelf and bracket
In the picture above, I'm securely tightly the connecting screw & nut together using the free spanner tool that was included in this kit.
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successfully connected the three
After managing to do this with all three of the shelves, it was time to move onto the wheels!
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the wheels!
This was also quite easy, I had to use the spanner tool again to secure the wheels to the base, so I couldn't really take progress pictures.
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Done!
And it was done! The wooden part on the top is actually removable, it's like a little lid. I'm very happy with it, and it is really stable.
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Thank you for upvoting and reading my post! :D
I like the vintage look of this IKEA trolley @jen0revision.
What sort of things will you be keeping in there ?
Thank you! I'm planning to keep my teas there as it's closer to my kettle :D
That sounds cool @jen0revision. Perhaps one day you can tell us about your teas; my current favourite is lemon and ginger tea.
That's a good idea! Oo, good for your health!
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