I was assembling the lower shelf. I had the bracket in one hand and the screw in the other. Everything was going smoothly. I looked down at my watch.
But here is the genius of the Nixon assembly method: nixon coffee table assembly instructions
Unlike the cheerful, friendly instructions from a certain Swedish giant (you know the one—where the mascot is a moose and everything is named after a fjord), the Nixon assembly guide is aggressive, paranoid, and surprisingly sticky. I was assembling the lower shelf