https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 17 May 2026 13:18:52 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-235465 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:07:37 +0000 BSB 235465@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@highwire: Yeah, good point. My dad did everything himself and it did not turn out well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-235358 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:38:56 +0000 DillonLion 235358@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bluestriped bee: Aw man DH will never hire someone to come to our house again, he's super handy. But that means I have to watch him climb on our roof and get covered in tar while I freak out about him falling. It isn't all sunshine and roses during DIY! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-235354 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:38:02 +0000 DillonLion 235354@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TurtleDoves: NICE! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-235349 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:37:22 +0000 Mrs. Tricycle 235349@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TurtleDoves: Nice Job!!! Now you can get more baby stuff with the money you saved putting the dresser together yourself! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-235075 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:25:08 +0000 LuLu Mom 235075@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes I am stubborn and do stuff like this all the time! However, I didn't do nursery furniture because when it was delivered it only cost us $10 more to have them do it...less headache that way :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234882 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:15:14 +0000 BoogieBea 234882@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Looks good! I am the one who puts together all the DIY furniture in our home. I enjoy it for some reason. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234849 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:48:57 +0000 BSB 234849@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TurtleDoves: Pretty much same here. The DH doesn't do much handy work. I do have to give him credit, he will paint and hang pictures. I don't mind doing the handy work but I do wish he could build a deck, fix cars, fix plumbing or electrical. Some thing that could save us money in the future. Oh, well. One can dream, right? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234846 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:46:10 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 234846@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>way to go!!!! looks great </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234827 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:16:27 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 234827@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bluestriped bee: I have a man around and yet---nothing gets done. He is very "corporate" I guess you could say. He doesn't do handy work and it drives me nuts!!! We were always raised to get down to business in my family (family of 6 kids total) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234798 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:22:10 +0000 BSB 234798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TurtleDoves: Great job! Who needs a man when we can do it ourselves? ;)</p> <p>I do all of the furniture assembly. Ikea's instructions are very long and detailed but I can do it. I don't know if you would call me a girly girl. I don't dress like it but I think I act like a girly girl more than a tom boy, though. I can be very independent so if I don't have a man around, I'll do it myself! :) Hmm, now I do sound like a tom boy. Hmmm... I don't know what I am. lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234797 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:21:19 +0000 mrbee 234797@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TurtleDoves: WOOHOO!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234790 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:06:55 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 234790@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@artbee: aww:( that's kind of funny:) that is usually me! Thank u guys so much for pumping me up!!! I got it done! It took me about 1.5h and I got everything vacuumed and set up before she got home so he could see the finished product. It was easy enough but being 7m pregnant: I def busted out in a sweat;) here's a pic for good measure: </p> [attach=2389/12/m7qwko.600x448.image.jpeg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234751 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:22:47 +0000 heffalump 234751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sorry, I'm not a success story. Ive tried many times, but I just end up messing up and dh has to take everything apart and redo it, so I'm not even allowed to try anymore. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234744 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:20:23 +0000 Mrs. Pen 234744@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Woo!! You can do it!!!</p> <p>I lived on my own for awhile, I put together and bookshelf and piano stand while I was single. Before LO was born I put together his cosleeper which was a challenge but fun :)<br /> you can do it!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234734 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:15:26 +0000 MamaMoose 234734@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm impressed! I'm pretty good at putting things together but I'm intimidated by drawers! I find them tricky and make hubs do them : ) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234687 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:22:55 +0000 matador84 234687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>definitely. i lived on my own for long enough and had no one to depend on...even nightmare ikea furniture i would put together. it is nice though now just getting DH to do it. I had to correct him the other day when he was putting a bookshelf together for me. mama knows best. :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234623 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:20:34 +0000 banana 234623@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do this all the time! I've put together dressers, desks, side tables, coffee tables, book shelves. You can totally do it!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234610 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:09:47 +0000 Andrea 234610@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TurtleDoves: it is because the person who writes those Ikea instructions likes to see everyone suffer! They are pretty bad! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234590 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:50:55 +0000 mrbee 234590@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TurtleDoves: the key is to read the directions carefully! And if something doesn't totally make sense, don't just guess like I used to do haha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234589 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:48:01 +0000 MsLipGloss 234589@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You Can Do Eeeeeeet!</p> <p>I love being a girly girl who is able to do handy things like put together furniture. Although I usually assist DH with our Ikea purchases--amazingly, he can interpret those instructions almost like he wrote them--before we were married, I put together my own Ikea furniture :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234558 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:18:33 +0000 MaisyMay 234558@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I put together stuff all of the time! Hubs is hopeless at it and so I do all of our assembly projects. I actually told him that we need to have our crib by 30 weeks so that I'm still semi-comfy on the floor assembling it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234543 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:04:51 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 234543@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: woot,woot! I've heard ikea is difficult to work with! I have never tried it myself but "they say" that it takes a trooper;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234542 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:04:36 +0000 Mommy Finger 234542@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love putting stuff together like that. You can do it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234538 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:03:19 +0000 Andrea 234538@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've put together a desk and dresser from Ikea! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234534 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:01:09 +0000 DillonLion 234534@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TurtleDoves: Impressive! We must be slow movers then, because every piece of furniture we have ever put together has taken a really long time (and has also been from IKEA, so that might be why) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234530 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:59:07 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 234530@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@highwire: YAY THANKS!! the directions are actually pretty straight forward thank heavens.</p> <p>From all the reviews of this product i've read numerous times that it took everyone about an hour to set up. My goal for today is just the 6 drawers. The body I can probably work on tomorrow. DH doesn't go into the nursery unless I ask him to check something out in there anyways. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234527 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:56:52 +0000 DillonLion 234527@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You can totally do it. As long as the instructions aren't from IKEA you should be fine. It might take awhile, though, so I wouldn't put yourself on a deadline (like when DH might arrive home) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/girly-girls-have-you-ever-put-together-a-piece-of-furniture#post-234523 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:52:33 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 234523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am a dedicated person and pretty intelligent too...so I think I can put a 6 drawer dresser together. My husband hired someone to do it (and all of our office furniture and crib too) but that guy just left town for 1 week. He did the crib and the office but the dresser is left. I want a stab at it!<br /> I just don't want to be overwhelmed so I am asking for success stories of "girly girls" who have been able to put something together!<br /> My husband comes home in 3 hours and I want to surprise him...not with a half finished mess but with a job well done:) That and..he bet me I couldn't do it (urgh!)</p> <p>It's this by the way:<br /> <a href="http://www.target.com/p/delta-children-s-products-eclipse-6-drawer-double-dresser-black-cherry/-/A-11254694" rel="nofollow">http://www.target.com/p/delta-children-s-products-eclipse-6-drawer-double-dresser-black-cherry/-/A-11254694</a> </p>