Pax / Nexus Wardrobe (Ikea Bedroom Furniture in general)

Member Name: movielad

Product:	Ikea Bedroom Furniture in general
Date:	26/06/01 (5237 review reads)
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Advantages: Big, Spacious, Highly customisable

Disadvantages: Two people to build, Needs better instructions, Drawers could have better guides for putting on handles

We (being myself and my fiance) went to Ikea to kit our new flat out with some new furniture. We had been living in a smaller flat beforehand, and it didn't give us much in the way of space to store things.

Anyway, we went to the Brent Cross branch with the intention of buying a new wardrobe, bed, sofa, computer desk and chair. Having looked around and decided on what we liked, we went off to the self-service warehouse to pick things up. Now, I hadn't ever been to Ikea before and didn't know that everything had to be picked up in this warehouse. As we had a lot of things (we didn't get a new sofa in the end, we just settled for the desk, the bed and wardrobe). Other than the wardrobe components which the staff assembled for us and we could pick up, it was a nightmare struggle with two trolleys full of heavy flat-pack stuff. It was made worse when the wardrobe was ready for collection - we had to shift three trolleys against two people, and it was difficult finding a member of staff to help us get to the checkout.

As we don't drive, we had to rely on the home delivery service to get everything home. Not only were they unfriendly, but they charged us a lot of dosh to deliver on a day that was utterly unsuitable. So much for service!

Getting the wardrobe together was interesting - although the instructions were not bad, they certainly could be a heck of a lot better. Secondly, it most certainly requires two people to put the Pax together. The real problem came with putting the handles on the drawers - there's a single hole inside of the front panel. The handles we had purchased required two holes to be drilled into the front panel. Aligning everything up was going to be a nightmare! In the end, we went back and bought single hole handles (knobs) and just drill through the single hole in the front panel of the drawers to screw it in. We also had some trouble linking the units together, so at the moment t
hey're seperate units.

It's a nice unit - nice and big, but that's also it's downfall. With better instructions, this is a nice system to go for. We've now got a bed to assemble, but we hope that won't be anything like building this wardrobe!

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