be very careful.

I don't know about you, but when I'm in the IKEA shop I spend most time thinking about how to improve stuff. What would happen if I cut this thing in half and inserted this and added this sort of thing. IKEA sometimes looks like Christmas for the DIY man. But quite often when you actually try to put things together in a different way than intended, things will go wrong. It often starts with the material, which is often more rubbish than it looks and will splinter or disintegrate when you take a power saw to it or drill holes where there aren't supposed to be any. Sometimes the surfaces will also resist being painted and sometimes the solvent in the paint will dissolve the material to which it is applied. The screws that IKEA uses are utterly non standard and it can be quite difficult finding something similar if you want to keep in the same style so you sometimes end up replacing them all which might mean re-drilling all holes. And God forbid that you actually try to fit a decent working lock to an IKEA cabinet. Smaller things you can improve, of course, such as fitting decent handles without too much hassle. Worse still is trying to get information on IKEA stuff, such as what material is this and is it actually possible to saw this bit off and drill holes in this bit without having to come back for a second cabinet tomorrow to start over. Staff are mostly not interested and in the rare case that you find one that is this is and actually makes phone calls for you, this is not the type of information IKEA likes to share. So my conclusion is, there are other stores that have stuff that is more fun for the DIY man. I am quite happy with Bauhaus stuff by the way. And the Brocki is good too and more fun.