All in a days work

You too can put your new daybed together in only seven not so easy steps!

The hardest part? Getting it out of the boxes! They are super heavy and heavily glued, but they do protect it during shipping.

The next hardest part? Trying to follow directions written for myopic chipmunks, using only human eyes.

Only after checking the boxes for parts and throwing them away to make room for spreading out all the pieces, did I discover it said to set the arms on pieces of cardboard in order not to fray them while putting the frame together. (Note: a marble pastry board and silk armchair can replace the cardboard if you are careful.)

Then there is the matter of all the little bolts that need to be put in with a tiny allen wrench. Fifty six of them, some in impossible places to tighten so that by the time you finish (which I have yet to do after eight hours) all the veins in your fingers are broken. (This turns out to be the very hardest part, especially since the hole for one of the big bolts did not line up.)

I have yet to finish screwing in the rest of the bolts or put the slats on. . .

Did I say, all in a day's work? Maybe a week's?