The Container Store's Titan resin cabinet is a Rube Goldberg explosion of plastic parts
I'm not usually daunted by furniture requiring assembly, but the Container Store's Titan garage cabinet will faze even the most committed DIY-er.
The cabinet is not actually primarily a cabinet -- it's a jigsaw puzzle masquerading as a functional storage unit whose parts took up 1/3 of my 3-car garage when spread out for assembly.
In putting it together, I was reminded of the plastic scale model cars that I used to build as a kid, where the item's assembly process was its entire raison d'être. And so it was with this cabinet.
There were holes in many of the panels that had no conceivable function other than to be plugged by the plastic covers that had to be torn or cut off of the plastic parts trees. There were parts that clearly could've been manufactured, packaged, and shipped more cost-effectively had they been cast in one piece rather than a dozen different pieces that required precision alignment in the manufacturing process so they could be assembled properly by the end user.
I nearly broke my nose and glasses when I punched myself in the face trying to pull apart two pieces that I had installed in the wrong direction.
The end result looks like what's pictured in this stock photo, and, miraculously, I was able to get it to look like this:
But for such a simple-looking cabinet, its assembly sure was unnecessarily complex. The time and frustration (and risk of physical injury to myself) more than negated the 30%-off Container Store coupon that enticed me to buy it.
Pro tip: Although not mentioned in the instructions, having a rubber mallet will help in the assembly. A rubber mallet is something that belongs in every DIY-er's tool arsenal. But really, if you're a glutton for punishment, you'd do better just taking the rubber mallet and smacking yourself over your head than to buy this cabinet.
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