Many an epic ballad chronicling triumph and woe has been sung by IKEA customers struggling to put together a flat-pack bookshelf using only a little silver tool, a mallet, a bag of bits and bobs you’re bound to lose and a set of instructions written in pictograms. There may be some relief in sight (not from the hieroglyphics, those are probably here to stay) if IKEA’s newest furniture line is as easy to assemble as the company says it is.

IKEA just introduced its REGISSÖR line, which will be sold starting later this month and includes a bookshelf, cabinets and a coffee table. Each piece will supposedly only take five minutes to assemble.

What in the what and how in the how, you might be asking yourself and/or the gods of do-it-yourself furniture assembly — can this be possible in this dimension? Dare we hope?

“Featuring special wedge dowels, furniture pieces assembled using this technique require no tools and have no loose pieces; you can put them together using only your hands,” the company says.

In a video from IKEA, the company touts this line’s uniqueness, using only wooden dowels that are already in place on the furniture to slide the pieces into place, resulting in a finished bookshelf that takes one employee only two minutes to put together. Granted, he works for the place, but it does look speedy.

If this method proves popular with customers, IKEA says it will extend the system to certain other lines as well.

(H/T Gizmodo)

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