HAUGA chest from IKEA? Let's fill it first.

Seventy centimetres wide, 46 cm deep and 84 cm tall, which is a chest you use standing up rather than a low unit. Three drawers of 61 by 38 cm give 107 litres between them, and the listing puts that at about twelve pairs of folded trousers or twenty T-shirts in a drawer.

The carcass is held by wedge dowels that click into predrilled holes, with the rest of the fittings in plastic. Seat every dowel fully before moving on, because a chest that comes apart when it is dragged is almost always one where a dowel was left proud. The frame goes together quickly once the dowels are home, and not at all if one is not.

The drawer boxes are 38 cm deep and pull out 23, so the last fifteen centimetres is reached by feel. That is normal for this kind of chest and it is why the bottom two drawers suit bedding and towels, which you push to the back rather than arrange.

It arrives in two packages of about 18 and 22 kg, and the finished chest is heavier than either. Build it in the room it will live in, because carrying it upstairs once it is built is the part people regret.

A wall fitting is included and the chest is meant to be anchored. Until it is, an interlock lets only one drawer open at a time, which owners who have not read that far sometimes report as a fault. Screwing the strap to the wall releases the interlock and is the difference between a chest that tips and one that does not.

The back is bare particleboard with a cut-out for the skirting, so the chest is designed to stand against a wall rather than float in a room. The finish is acrylic paint over particleboard, so it wipes clean and chips if something hard hits an edge.

Wipe clean with a damp cloth and dry with a clean cloth. Anchor the chest before loading the drawers, and lift it rather than sliding it once it is full.