OTTENBY

A couple of weeks ago my ex-roommate reclaimed his dresser that he had traded/left with me a few years back (there apparently are no statutes of limitations for this kind of thing). We were frantically looking for a replacement and couldn't find anything simlarly sized and reasonably priced in all the stores we looked.

Thank god for IKEA. I have to confess that I like the look of most of their stuff. Sure the quality is so-so and I always have to think of Fight Club whenever I shop with them, but their stuff is fun and cheap. So we surfed their site and found the OTTENBY dresser. The dimensions looked perfect and since it's solid wood, it doesn't weigh a ton. And we have pickup-owning relatives in Houston who just happened to be coming to Austin this weekend. We got our dresser delivered yesterday (Tim and Felicia--thanks a million).

This afternoon I assembled that baby. I really enjoy putting these things together and it took me about 1h 45min from start to finish. I only had a few parts left over (the drawers didn't really need all those dowels, did they?) The wood finish is lovely, the drawers slide out smoothly and the size is great. Of course, ash doesn't match anything else in the study, but I don't care and Jfer views this as reason to go book shelf shopping.