Building furniture

Finland celebrated its 107th Independence Day on Friday. It is a public holiday in Finland, which made this a long weekend.

Coincidentally, Ikea delivered the Billy bookshelf I had ordered from them on Saturday.

I spent a good part of my day looking at diagrams and assembling the said furniture. There is something about assembling the thing yourself which makes owning the furniture better.

You can say, I put that together. Even though the designers at Ikea made sure that putting the furniture together was as easy as it could be.

We all used to build things in the past. Some still do. Most of us don't.

It is nice to have built something with my hands. And not just type it out, looking at a screen somewhere.

Happy Ikea day!