IKEA Stuva Cabinets – neater shelves
We decided to improve the shelving of toys, stationeries and other stuff over this long holiday. So we did the works over several weeks so as to be not over-stressed.
Starting around 10 Dec, we unloaded the pine-wood open shelves (from IKEA, old ones) and decommissioned the shelves over several days.
David was very good at taking down the shelves, while Esther helped with the unloading.
On 17 Dec, the first batch of IKEA Stuva cabinets and shelves arrived. We asked for delivery and assembly of the cabinets only, while we loaded the shelf planks and wire-baskets ourselves.
We then reloaded all the stuff into the new shelves, throwing away things that we don’t need. It is good to get this done before the doors as the doors would have gotten in the way of loading.
On 28 Dec (after all the Christmas celebrations) and taking advantage of IKEA’s 35th anniversary discounts, YowCH went to Tampines and drove home the doors and other parts. Esther and David set-up the door hinges, while Joseph helped YowCH put in the brackets. Joseph was also the runner to get parts and collect rubbish. We got the doors done up (together with one more unit of cabinet) and shifted a light switch by 10mm, all in 3.5 hours. Esther and David shared the battery-power screwdriver (from IKEA, $14.90).
This is the final product, effort of the family (well, except Samuel, of course).
The smaller doors at the lower part of the boys room are missing as IKEA ran out of stock, we’ll have to get them some other day.
