17 Things Anyone Who Has Built Ikea Furniture Knows To Be True

    But it looked so good and easy to build in the store!

    Brian Galindo
    by Brian Galindo

    BuzzFeed Staff

    1. How this cartoon pretty much sums up the entire experience of putting your furniture piece together.

    2. How the box holds a rather deceiving number of parts and pieces.

    3. How organizing all your pieces is the BIG extra step they don't tell you about.

    4. How you will step on one or more of these with your bare feet at some point.

    5. How you will waste more time looking for the right screw than you will actually putting the screw in place.

    6. How these wooden dowels never stay in place and, even worse, they break easily.

    7. How no matter how hard you try, two parts will never seamlessly meet.

    8. That yes, you can screw something in too tight.

    9. Putting together a piece of furniture with a friend or a loved one will REALLY test your relationship.

    10. That moment when you've successfully screwed together a part only to find out that you put it on backwards.

    11. When you THINK you're all done... and then you realize you have some very big, important-looking pieces left over.

    12. How sometimes the most important piece you need is SOLD SEPARATELY.

    13. It is impossible to correctly put together drawers.

    14. That no matter how careful you are, you'll ding, break, or rip something before you even use it.

    15. At some point during the process, you will breakdown, cry, and vow to NEVER buy Ikea furniture again.

    16. You will find it very, very easy to settle for "close enough."

    17. When you're actually done, but have a screw or two left over... leaving you to always wonder if today will be the day when the whole thing falls apart.