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Now here's a topic that I'm sure everyone is aware of and has tried it at least once in their lives and have not been very happy with the outcome. You're not a professional just an amateur but you think to yourself how hard can it be, you don't have enough money to pay for a pro so off you go to the DIY shop and after a while you decide on the unit that will give you the extra space that you need then the colour and you pay for it, the unit comes neatly packed away in a cardboard box but you need some help because it's so heavy and you also need help to get it into the car, that's just the beginning of your problems. When you arrive home you again need help getting the box out of the car and into the house, then your so tired you open the box, get the instructions out and sit down and drink a cup of coffee while reading, what language is it in, well it's in a language that you don't understand. Right coffee finished and so is looking at the diagrams so you think that you now know how these pieces go together, you open the plastic bag and put the contents to one side and you then think to yourself that there's a mountain of bits both little and big but they must all go somewhere. You take out all the pieces of wood and lay them down neatly on the floor now the whole room is full of this small unit, ok let's start. First the big bits which makes up the frame, wow so far so good now for the inside. Shelves first and they go in easily enough and it's starting to look like the unit that you saw in the shop but now comes the hard part, the doors, after looking at the pictures again for the hundredth time you begin and after what seems like an eternity they're on, it looks great so all you have to do is get the unit upright so you need help with that, hurray it's up and hasn't fallen apart but there's one small problem the doors aren't leval and they don't close properly so you decide to put the unit in the place where it's supposed to go and then sort out the doors, it looks good and doesn't fall apart, that's one plus for me, now the doors, after turning this screw and that screw it's finished and after a few hours you congratulate yourself on a job well done. Now you start filling it with all the things you need to put in it and thankfully it's still in one piece and the doors close,outstanding you have your unit filled and in it's place, hard work both mentally and physically but was it worth while, a sense of self-satisfaction overwhelms you, the question still remains, was it worth the trouble? If you had the money would you have paid a professional or would you go through what you have just done putting it together yourself or paid someone to do it for you? Myself personally I would have waited to save enough money and paid for a professional to do the job but that's only my opinion, have you ever had to go through this like myself if so then you understand what I mean, go insane doing it yourself or don't put yourself through this torture again and pay someone who knows what they are doing, that's up to you, you decide on what you would do, I wish you all luck if you decide to do it yourself you'll need it. 

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