A lot of the furniture for your home nowadays comes unassembled and the handy home owner spends time putting it together. This kitchen cart on wheels took me 4 hours. Pay no attention to the fire extinguisher to the left of the cart. It's not for when I cook but a mental salve after my house had a fire.
By selling items that need assembly the stores are able to keep more stock on hand and transport larger quantities at once. The pieces are generally not that difficult to put together if you are willing to read and follow the instructions. Why did it take me 4 hours you ask? There were a great many different pieces involved and I am slow and meticulous with the instruction booklet. I double and triple check the locations of screws and dowels that need to be glued in place.
One must be careful when buying an unassembled item to first check out the display model at the store to determine if it is of good quality. Once you have ascertained this and bought the item and brought it home the first step is to go through the contents of the box and make sure every part has indeed been included. It is quite frustrating to find that the piece you need for the next step in assembly seems to be missing.
This has happened twice to me. Once an end table was delivered with only 3 of the 4 required legs and another time one side of the base of a fan I was constructing was missing. I suppose I have a bit of an advantage as in my working career I had to build anything from bbqs to electric fireplaces. Some of those bbqs manufactured overseas were very difficult with screw holes that did not line up. I would build them in the back room of the store where my muttered curses could not be heard. My advice is to never never buy the floor model. Often they are jury-rigged to stay together and may be missing pieces that just not would not attach.
So now I have a kitchen cart that increases my counter space and storage space and when not in use rolls away into this handy corner.
