How much extra was the delivery and set up?

And how did it go at the store? Did you have to pull all the boxes off of the shelf and go to the register and then drop the boxes off somewhere?

That's what they told me I had to do (and to go fetch some boxes at a warehouse across the street, and then drag those boxes back into the main store.) At which point I said "F*** this", and went to MediaMarkt for electronics therapy.

Almost a year now in Switzerland and I still don't have wardrobes. Oh well.

I already assembles a few of these wardrobes, really easy if you a) read the instructions and b) are not alone.

Consider it an exercise in reading and following simple instructions (something I, like many men, previously did not consider important)

We paid almost 400fr for them to bring and set it up. Like I said, it's soo worth every rappen for it. Just go the the Pax wardrobe area, get one of the gals to help you out with designing it on the computer. She orders it there for you, and you take the paper to the kasse and pay.

Just make sure you measure your ceilings before going- not all Swiss housing can handle 236cm high closets!


Here's the info from Ikea's website:
Möbelmontage- Die Kosten betragen CHF 100.- plus 17% vom Warenwert und werden ebenfalls separat verrechnet (Selbstkosten)

Home delivery- Wir verrechnen bei einem Lieferort innerhalb von ca. 30 Autominuten ab einem Einrichtungshaus 12% vom Warenwert (Zone 1), im Minimum CHF 99.-, höchstens aber CHF 500.-. Liegt der Lieferort ausserhalb von ca. 30 Autominuten ab einem Einrichtungshaus sind es 16% vom Warenwert (Zone 2), im Minimum CHF 99.-, höchstens aber CHF 500.-. Für verkehrsfreie Orte gilt eine spezielle Regelung. Geht's per Post, so sind es mindestens CHF 28.- (Selbstkosten).

Edit to add: the total weight for 2- 200x 201cm and 1- 50x 201 Pax closets with door was 303kg- so yeah worth having it delivered!

I thought the whole point about flatpacks is that you can fit more of them into a container. Even the lengths and heights of furniture are chosen to better fill containers rather than to meet customer demands. As the costs of shipping containers is more or less independent of the content, IKEA's real innovation goes into cramming more flatpacks into less space. That makes logistics cheaper and that's how IKEA works.

Isn't that almost in the definition?

Why would any sane unmarried person want to go to IKEA?

Flatpacks with strange names, endlessly depressing showrooms that smell of formaldehyde and those meatballs that don't tast of meat are all part of the subtle feminisation process that starts after marriage.

Are you the orange one or the yellow one?

We were also assembling PAX wardrobe earlier today and then tried to install it in our small closet room. Although we were moving it there and back and turning it different times before we managed to lift it, it did not collapse. The second one we assempled in place, in the standing position, and it didn't collapse as well. Hmm... Maybe we did something wrong?

We have almost all furniture by Ikea (except one sofa from Fly) in our 3.5 rooms apartment, and we never ordered assembling services - my husband was able to assemble everything himself with a very small help from me and with a huge instrusion from our 2 yo daughter. He liked the process a lot due to the very clear manual and a good fit of everything - the holes were always where they had to be, and in the places where it was hard to achieve good accurace, the holes were made oval in order to give more freedom for fixing.

The only problem I have experiensed with Ikea so far is that all my real and virtual friends form different countries have almost the same Ikea furniture (especially in the child's room) and the same Ikea toys, which is quite boring.

I am very sorry that Ikea was not allowed to enter the market in my home country, Ukraine. Though the reason for this in obvious - half of the furniture shops currently existing on the market would have got bankrupt.