Furniture, not the President --although I have similar feeling for him. In an effort to finish up the sunroom in time for Christmas (only after 2 years of having it done), we did a lot this weekend. One thing was to finally buy a TV stand for the widescreen. It's been kind of a pain looking for the perfect piece of furniture to replace what we currently have the TV on, my old desk. Which looks like total crap up there.
But we found something we didn't hate, this TV stand at Best Buy from Bush Furniture. I'm not thrilled at furniture you have to assemble, but it's cheaper. So I spent a good chunk of Sunday trying to put it together. I get the bottom section assembled and go to put the top on and it won't fit. I pound on it, I swear at it and then I realize a couple of the screws don't align with the holes in the center divisor.
WTF? So I pull out those screws and it still won't go on. Turns out the center divisor is the wrong size. It sticks out about 1/8" farther than it should and that's interfering with a bottom lip on the top. Jebus what a shitty design.
I chisel out a bit of the divisor to allow the lip to come down, and lo and behold the cover slips right on. Only now I start to further conclude that the glass doors will no longer fit snugly recessed with the rest of that extra 1/4" sticking out. I figure I've gotten the wrong center divisor board. Only I should have taken it out and cut that 1/4" off the back. Now that I've chiseled out the front, I can't move it back without it looking all screwed up. I call up the company who said they would UPS it out to me.
For now, the damn thing is sitting, unfinished in the sunroom.
Fuck Bush. This is the second time they've screwed up a piece of furniture I've purchased. A few years ago, a desk was missing the front panel of a door. They replaced it quickly, but is it too much to ask that it leave the warehouse correctly?
posted by Evil Wayne @ 1:30 PM
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