Before it comes home
Will it fit where you pictured it?
Check the doorway width before you assume it will fit through.
A couple more room tipsDimensions in centimetres, width × depth × height: 100 × 48 × 76.
Before the delivery day
The room decides more than the photo.
The ALEX desk is 100 cm by 48 cm, standing 76 cm tall. A laptop, a monitor and a mug fit with room to spare. The 48 cm depth is the number that decides how much of your work lands on it.
Leave 80 cm behind a pulled-out chair, and check the stair turn against the longest box, because the desk arrives flat.
IKEA lists 50 kg as the maximum load, and 1 kg in each drawer. 62 cm of free height under the frame is what your knees and chair actually get. Each drawer measures 44 × 31 cm inside.
On ikea.com, reviewers describe the foil lifting where a child's juice glass fused to it, and hinges on the cable lid that would not click together. The size draws the opposite reaction, with one owner calling it the right fit for a small balcony.
The listed material is particleboard with a foil and acrylic paint finish, on a steel underframe. Wipe a spill straight away and dry it, and put a coaster under anything cold, since condensation is what the foil reacts to.