August 17, 2007
IKEA
... sometimes gets it and sometimes doesn't - C's chest of drawers, which came from them, is both cheaply and oddly designed. With honest cheap construction, you can often make things much better with more screws, glue and and angle brackets than the designer had originally had in mind, but it defeats any attempts at reform.
On the other hand, we chose the second cheapest option for our kitchen cabinets (the cheapest was white melamine) and it turned out just fine.
And to give credit where credit is due, their high chair ($24.99, tray extra - tray extra? - for another $5) is essentially perfect:
- It's easy to clean. We spray it down in the sink with a scrub pad and the vegetable sprayer, 25 seconds or so.
- It can be sterilized. This has been necessary; enough said.
- It's really cheap. You can buy high chairs ten times as expensive, which are perversely far harder to clean.
- It disassembles into six parts, and is very, very easy to transport. Here's Mr. Wuzzle enjoying his lunch on the grounds of a 14th-century Tuscan monastery:
on the side of a mountain in Radicofani (is that still in Tuscany?)
and in Muskoka:
