I was at IKEA today with my friend. I realised that DIY is picking up after IKEA has started its operation in One Utama few years back. What is it got to do with us?
In Malaysia, we are still comfortable with the lifestyle of on-the-shelf approach, whereby the product is assembled ready to move in. What DIY? It is so hectic, you have figure out pieces by pieces. Worse is that when you realised that the puzzles that you are working on does not come out perfectly as per the prototype, you will be screaming and pull your hairs out!
Another reason for not going for DIY is because labour cost for assembling our shelves are cheap, yet the quality is good. I personally think that DIY comes from the west is largely due to high labour cost that resulted their people, without choice, have to do it themselves. Why pay others to fix your stuff that you could do it yourself? And, the pieces that come with it might not be of better quality.
So, DIY? think again.