We've been desperately seeking storage for years in our tiny Mid-western bungalow, and when we discovered Ikea and the many clever Swedish coping mechanisms for small living space, we fell in love.
IVAR is about the only full shelving system poor suckers like us can purchase online from Ikea. It's either that or drive a bajillion miles to Chicago, rent a U-Haul, stay in a motel, buy meals, drag little kids around, take days off work that we don't have...you get the picture. By the time we added it all up, we were more than willing to pay the $275 delivery fee on top of our $700 worth of IVAR.
After it was all said and done, we'd spent about $1000 on ten boxes of assorted planks of wood. The house smelled of a northern forest for about a week while we fretted over how to approach the installation. What about the floor treatment? Shouldn't we do something about the floor before we anchor this stuff to the wall? We ended up painting the floor "cowboy boots" brown. It resembles some of the rooms in the Ikea catalog that we now take all our design cues from.
Michael assembled the cabinets and attached them to the braces. I spent most of my time with a Philips head screwdriver and the three drawer units we'd ordered. Things didn't exactly go togther as I'd sketched out in our master plan, but we improvised. The fact that this stuff is modular allowed us to be more flexible in our execution. Handy tip: always measure your space in every dimension possible and don't plan to fill every inch. This stuff will usually be a little larger than you realize.
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