Flat Pack

You expect a certain variability in quality with flatpack furniture. A dowel or screw missing, impenetrable instructions that are in English via a Swedish-Hungarian then Hungarian-English phrase book, that sort of thing. You don't expect a fly to have got trapped in the stuff they coat the wood with, as happened with the nursery wardrobe we assembled today.

Luckily, this particular "decoration", along with the chips and cracks, were mostly in obscure spots on the inside. And the one missing dowel wasn't too much of a problem.

We were on the verge of just sending it all back, but eventually decided it wasn't worth the hassle. Though we'll still probably fire off a complaint to the producer. Who aren't Swedish, by the way, but they are well-known to any Mums & Dads out there.