No more IKEA fights! The Swedish furniture giant is replacing its traditional Allen key – with a new snap pack system that’s assembled using a wooden dowel.
The new system secures your furniture together without any screws or tools, cutting assembly time by half according to IKEA. Example – the new Lisabo table takes just three minutes to put together – previously, it took 24.
The dowels also makes it easy to pull apart and reassemble furniture.
Handy for when you have to move house – or as IKEA’s range and supply manager Jesper Brodin puts it: “There are more divorces so now if you get kicked out of your house in the morning you can reassemble your table in the afternoon.”
IKEA now plans to roll out the dowel system to all of its furniture lines.
Given how many relationships have ended over a half-built bookcase, we’re expecting an immediate drop in divorce rates.
