Ikea furniture usually is straight forward and simple for me to put together.. but every so often, something doesn’t fit quite right or make much sense when it goes together, until I mess it up.
I have to give the folks at Ikea a lot of credit for designing flat packed furniture, but every so often they make something that doesn’t go together, no matter how hard I’ve tried. I’ve only had this happen once to me, to the point of where I had to take it back. (If I had a tap & die, I probably would have just kept it.)