Thanks, trifle. And I wouldn't worry too much about the impression you make, with over 500 posts already you're hardly a newbie anymore!

And Skunkee, ask Roos about IKEA, he can talk about it for hours!

Okay Roos, cough it up.
Whatever is this obsession with IKEA?
LOL
(By the way - I live about 5 minutes away from an IKEA - great place!)

If you've been hanging out with Gats then you surely know the way around here!

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By the way - I live about 5 minutes away from an IKEA - great place!

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My parents also live about 5 minutes away from an IKEA. I used to go there a lot when I still lived with them. Until I realised I could tell when they had moved certain items to a different part of the showroom!

Skunkee the joy I feel when browsing through a new IKEA! catalogue cant be expressed in words alone.

IKEA! is very much like this forum, a number of beautiful ideas that look great on paper but difficult at times to put together into the final product.
I think it`s great that Leau who has so much IKEA! knowledge is the new mod of this forum, she would surely appreciate the difficulty that people have in presenting their thoughts.

Just as IKEA! has found it`s way into almost every part of the world Leau is now a mod in many different parts of this site. When you are onto a good thing stick with it.

Thanks for the enlightenment! LOL

Needless to say, I welcome Leau with open arms....

Leau, couldn't agree more that you're up to the task.

However, the IKEA saga here has continued and it got worse for me!
We went all the way down to the SF bay area for a bed, were served abominably by the young lady at the checkout counter who shoved our packages around, did not say please or thank you, then, upon assembling the bed, my son realized the boards to hold it in were not there.
Called customer service, and we found the young woman had charged me for two full beds, no boards, and no way to prove I was telling the truth until long after Christmas because they must look at the film of my purchase!
I rarely complain about cashiers but my daughter was with me and said she'd have been sacked at her cashier job if she'd done a small percentage of those errors, on the spot!
So, had my father cut some boards for the bed while waiting.

This marks twenty years we've frequented IKEA after furnishing an entire house and redoing our kitchen with them in Philadelphia. I'd say, Caveat Emptor, even for little things, and I would no longer buy anything unless the shop was close to my home to pick up missing parts.
We loved it for being family friendly long before it was cool with a nursing mother room and play area for children. But now, I'd think twice.


The last chair took two lengthy customer service calls and two mailings to get the part we needed that was missing.