This is my dear friend Ana Paulina helping me figure out the mysterious Ikea assembly instructions with pictures like this 
on Friday.
There were a couple of points in the morning where I would have thrown my hands up in surrender had she not been there to calmly and logically get us past a perplexing step. But by mid-afternoon, we were going strong.
Saturday I actually assembled a cabinet on my own.
I also had to do some detective work to figure out how the cabinets on my purchase list matched the ones on my layout and how they matched up with the cubes in my dining room that all looked the same. None of the numbers seemed to match, so I had to do it by measurements and process of elimination.
My next challenge will be to figure out which loose pieces in my garage go inside of which cabinets for drawers and such and how to put the feet on the base cabinets.
Hopefully my adventures in kitchen renovations will soon be over!
So how is the kitchen renovation going? Cabinets finally on the walls?
Yes, cabinets are all on the walls and countertops installed. They still have to finish painting and fixing baseboards and window trim. I also can't use the stove or dishwasher yet because they're installing a new electrical panel. I'll have to post some new pictures soon.
The absolute worst is the ikea drawings that make it hard to distinguish the screws that all look identical from one another. I don't know how many times I've had to entirely take my new furniture apart because I realized I was using the wrong screws in the wrong places.