We've all been there. You buy a new item of flatpack furniture from Ikea, dedicate an hour or two that afternoon to putting it up before you know it it's 1am and you're staring wide-eyed with frustration and caffeine at something that looks like its been knocked together in the dark.
Thankfully, now there's a solution.
The Swedish homeware chain is making the anguish of failing at life by being unable to construct flatpack furniture a thing of the past with the announcement that it has acquired a firm who will come and do it for you.
Gone are the days of tearing your hair out, trying to assemble a wardrobe while that smug little stick man smirks up at you from the instructions, because now you can just pay a guy to do it for you.
TaskRabbit, which operates in 40 cities in the US and UK, supplies handymen to homes to carry out a broad range of tasks.
It covers everything from cleaning to basic maintenance and now it will be adding installations for Ikea furniture to its list of services too.
IKEA's chief executive Jesper Brodin said: "We need to develop the business faster and in a more flexible way.
"An acquisition of TaskRabbit would be an exciting leap in this transformation.
"We will be able to learn from TaskRabbit's digital expertise, while also providing Ikea customers additional ways to access flexible and affordable service solutions."
The odd jobs firm was founded in 2008 by Leah Busque by chance when her and her husband were about to leave the house for an evening out.
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"We realised we had run out of dog food," she told BBC News.
"My husband's also in technology, so we've always had these very geeky conversations and that night it turned into, 'Wouldn't it be nice if there was just a place online we could go, say we needed dog food, name the price we're willing to pay?'
"We were certain that there was someone in our own neighbourhood that would be willing to help us out, and it was just a matter of connecting with them."
With that, Leah registered her domain name and just a few short months later she left her job at IBM to work on TaskRabbit full time.
"Ignorance is bliss, I think, when you're first starting out," she told the BBC.
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"I wasn't thinking about starting a company, about raising money, about hiring. I was just thinking, I have to build this idea in my head."
TaskRabbit will continue to function as a private company within the Ikea Group and will enable the chain to compete with the likes of John Lewis and Homebase, who already offer similar services.
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