Tere!

You might remember my story in which I said I wanted to buy a tablet once I got tax returned in Estonia. However, I actually had one more thing that I wanted to buy:

IKEA’s desk!

You may wonder

“Don’t you have a desk in your room?”

I have one!!!

In the office I use an electronic stand/sit desk, which is amazing. Usually I work standing so I don’t get tired by sitting for hours and a stoop, I guess.

So,

I wanted such a desk in my room too but the electronic one is expensive.

It costs at least 300€.

Then I searched similar desks on IKEA.

Then I found!

In addition they have cheaper manual ones!!!

I was so happy as finding that one. Actually this IKEA in Estonia has launched quite recently.

Thus previously Estonia didn’t have any IKEA shops, and people bought furniture at Jysk. However, this IKEA in Estonia has a different style of purchase process from regular IKEA shops that you may imagine.

This Estonian IKEA doesn’t have any physical shop but a storage, so you have to order what you want to buy online beforehand. (I know you might have a concern about the sizes. The measurement tape is a must-have item in my opinion.) After ordering online, you will get an email or SMS message from IKEA Estonia when the products arrived and just go to this IKEA storage in Tallinn.

More strictly speaking, you have two choices which is: either 1) deliver the products to your place or 2) go to the IKEA storage. If you choose 1) and ask them to deliver the product to your place, you have to pay for the delivery fee, which is 19.90€ if you live in Tallinn and seems 69.90€ if you live in Tartu.

I personally don’t like spending money on the delivery fee since I was younger so I decided to go to and pick my table at the IKEA storage in Tallinn, which was kind of far from my place but it wasn’t impossible to go there.

I’d heard that it was a storage so I imagined the literally storage-like storage but once I entered the inside, it was different.

It was more like a proper shop than I thought.

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On the right side after passing the entrance, you can see somewhere like a waiting space and find the machines to issue your waiting number. (As written in IKEA’s email, Estonian IKEA has two entrances and my products weighed less than 50kg so I entered the main entrance.)

At that moment there were around 10 people in front of me so for a while I was just wandering around the “storage”. It seemed that you could buy small things like bed linens and pillows even in the storage as well. Their displays looked like a proper and normal furniture shop so it was actually enjoyable to look around the inside.

Then my turn came. I went to the check-out point that had my number and showed my SMS message (or email) from IKEA. Then the cashier told me to come to the entrance of the real storage with her so I waited for a few minutes and another clerk gave me the products. They might be writing something when giving you the products but you don’t have to care about that. Just take your products and leave.

Then,

I actually thought of buying a 120cm desk and align it with my regular desk next which, but it seems everyone didn’t have enough space. Smaller sizes were continuously gone and I determined to buy a 160 cm one. I was going to use it, mostly keeping the standing height, which means I didn’t intend to change the height that often. Also as written above, the desk weighed less than 50 kg in total. (The desk top and legs weighed 30 kg in total.) So I thought I could bring them home like an exercise.

I was wrong.
(Of course.)

The desk legs were way heavier than the desk top and I immediately gave up bringing them home. I called Bolt (Estonian-version-like Uber) and the driver managed to put them in his car. It cost 7.20€ from the IKEA storage to my place. Compared to the delivery fee it cost still less than the half of it.

Then I was excitedly started to assemble the desk but

I was sooooooooo stupid!!!

I didn’t have a screwdriver. 

Besides I made mistakes twice.
(Because I didn’t read the manual properly.)

Next day I borrowed the screwdriver from my flatmanager and completed assembling my desk.

So now I use this IKEA’s desk standing, setting the height accordingly to my height. When I got tired, I sit on the chair and at the regular desk that has been in my room.

I always tend to mess up my desk top with the stationeries and devices so this 160cm-wide desk is super great. 

I may want to buy some bed linen and pillow cases on IKEA next time.

Aitäh! 🙂