B&Q Furniture in general

On my trip to ikea I passed a B&Q. So I thought, hmm, I could do with some new shelves for my room, so I went and bought some. Here is what I got: 2 x 2m lond value shelf Price: £3 each 1 x 1m long value shelf Price: £1.50 Both of these are complete with brackets, and yes you did read correct - £7.50 for 3 shelves. They are made of wood, pine to be exact, and have dove tail brackets and are held to the wall with a "NO VISIBLE SCREWS" system. I.e. You cannot see any screw, funnily enough! The wood is a okay-good qualitym and is ready to be vanished or painted. However if like ...  Read the complete review

Ok, I didn't set my expectations too high. It was a flatpack, 5 tier shelving unit, unfinished pine. It cost about a tenner. Fair enough, I wasn't expecting miracles. I probably wasn't even expecting pre-drilled lumber. But what I get was a royal pain in the arse. First up, I didn't mind having to drill pilot holes for about forty odd screws. That was to be expected. What I did object to was having to drill them through the poorest quality and knottiest lumber I've ever seen. No consideration seemed to have been made over the fact that this unit would actually have to be assembled. Nearly all of the joints went through large and ...  Read the complete review