Posted By admin on July 3, 2009
Jaime turns twins into a queen.
“I turned two Tolga bed frames into a queen size platform bed. I wanted a platform bed and really liked the simple, modern style of Ikea’s Tolga, but it is only sold in twin size! I also liked these because they are made with steel truss which is very sturdy and also made with a renewable resource - pine slats. Oh, yah, and it was cheap! I hit Ikea at a sale time and spent well under $70 for both. The conversion was very simple. I cut one of the beds in half with a rip-saw, lined up one of the halves to a whole and then screwed down some plywood on top with a drill. Yay, for muh new bed!”
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Posted By admin on July 3, 2009
AleXX from Munich, Germany has a wonderful idea for a landing strip. The storage boxes with changeable photos are a nice touch.
He says, “I searched quite some time for a new wardrobe, but there are only really ugly or really expensive ones (or even both) on the market. So I created my own wardrobe out of the following items:
1 narrow Ivar shelf
1 Norrebo storage bench
5 Fira Boxes
5 Lillholmen Hooks
5 Österbymo frames
1 Alvine Tapet curtain
1 Irja curtain rail
1 Sandnes shoe storage
2 older magnet boards from Ikea
1 piece of plywood (covers for the Ivar)
…and plenty of screws
I varnished the Fira boxes with a clear coating. I removed the stands from the photo frames and picked two holes in the back cardboard. I pinned two screws through them and drilled holes in the front of the Fira boxes, then mounted the frames with the screws and nuts. So it is possible to change the pics, when the kids grow older and my hair gets gray.”
The rest you can view them pics on his Flickr set.
Other landing strip hacks:
- Slim and sexy entryway table
- Stark hall unit divider
- Hat and coat rack
- Narrow shoe cabinet for landing strip
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Posted By admin on July 3, 2009
AleXX from Munich, Germany has a wonderful idea for a landing strip. The storage boxes with changeable photos are a nice touch.
He says, “I searched quite some time for a new wardrobe, but there are only really ugly or really expensive ones (or even both) on the market. So I created my own wardrobe out of the following items:
1 narrow Ivar shelf
1 Norrebo storage bench
5 Fira Boxes
5 Lillholmen Hooks
5 Österbymo frames
1 Alvine Tapet curtain
1 Irja curtain rail
1 Sandnes shoe storage
2 older magnet boards from Ikea
1 piece of plywood (covers for the Ivar)
…and plenty of screws
I varnished the Fira boxes with a clear coating. I removed the stands from the photo frames and picked two holes in the back cardboard. I pinned two screws through them and drilled holes in the front of the Fira boxes, then mounted the frames with the screws and nuts. So it is possible to change the pics, when the kids grow older and my hair gets gray.”
The rest you can view them pics on his Flickr set.
Other landing strip hacks:
- Slim and sexy entryway table
- Stark hall unit divider
- Hat and coat rack
- Narrow shoe cabinet for landing strip
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Posted By admin on July 2, 2009
Elodie gives her old TV unit a new burst of life. Again.
“This is a third life for my TV furniture. At the beginning it was ‘birch’. I transformed it in brown and flashy colors, and some years later I painted it in white and then I put a shiny varnish. A friend of mine call it the Apple furniture! I’m happy because I’ve got it for 7 years now, and I still love it because it changed his look several times.”
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Posted By admin on June 30, 2009
Gill pulls a perfect pint with this hack.
“My husband and I took an old commercial fridge, and refinished it, to become a kegerator. We hit the As-is section of Ikea for the counter top (paid $30), and the rails are actually Enhit curtain rods (not on website), marked down to $4.99. Works perfectly!”
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Posted By admin on June 30, 2009
Matt downsizes his studio gear with a rolling drawer system.
He says, “For the longest time I was using 2 tables for my studio gear and it wasn’t until I moved to an apartment that size became an issue. So I figured out a way to put all my gear together right in front of me. What we have here is 9 Vika Curry legs and 2 Vika Amon table tops and a home made keyboard pull out shelf with drawer rollers.
First I cut one of the table tops 15” length ways. I took 4 vika curry legs and cut them down to 14”. These support the half table top above. I used a drawer roller system to mount my pull out keyboard under the table and I added a 5th leg in the middle to help support all the weight.”
Related hack:
- James’ minimalist music desk
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Posted By admin on June 27, 2009
Carlo gets arty with the Vallo watering can.
He says, “From the very first time we saw the Vallo watering can, we love its design. Too nice to be only a watering can! So here is our ValloLight Lamp!
We use the white Vallo ($1.99) and Ikea Parlor Glass Decoration (transparent ones, $1.99).
To achieve good results, it is very important to pay attention to the little things such as wire, switch and so on.
Please note that the Vallo is not heat resistant, so to avoid fire hazard, it is better to use cool light sources. The Ikea Parlor stones give a nice effect to the lamp and more importantly, increase the stability. Without them, the Vallolight is too light!”
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Posted By admin on June 26, 2009
Dear John and Sherry Petersik,
If you ever need a housesitter, call me. ~ Jules
Sherry says, “Back in January we used a pair of Pax wardrobes (along with the customizable Komplement interior fittings) to create to ‘built-in’ closest in our bedroom. When we first installed them they looked pretty ghetto… and a bit too Ikea. But with a little effort, we persevered and pimped them out to look like an expensive custom built-in.
before
Ikea moves inAll it took were some curtains (also from Ikea) instead of doors, some baseboard installed as crown molding to bridge the gap between the top of the wardrobes and the ceiling, and a wooden header to make ‘em look a lot less like doorless Ikea wardrobes and a lot more like a soft and cozy sleeping nook that just happened to triple our closet space.”
ta-dah!
Check out the full bedroom makeover here and whatever you do, don’t miss their house tour. It’s so so awesome.
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Posted By admin on June 24, 2009
It’s bliss when you find something (cheap, especially) and it fits in perfectly. Christian gets just that with his bargain buy and ends up with a floating computer desk.
He says, “I got this Vika Blecket with Vika Curry legs second hand from this guy on craigslist. Now, I have this closet in my living room that I removed the sliding doors with the intent of putting a desk in there. When I got this Vika desk home, I found out it was the perfect size for the closet.
So this was great, but there seemed to be a little wobble with the desk, also I am a big fan of higher, standing desks so I thought I could do that with this. My first idea was to have a sort of ‘platform’ built that would just raise the table up, but one day I suddenly realized I could just create a little border around the closet walls (maybe an inch thick) and I could rest the table top on top of the pieces of wood or whatever.
So I went to Ikea to get a chair (you know, for sitting), and I got lucky by finding a few spare pieces of wood in the as-is area that were the perfect size for this project. I went home and after much experimenting I mounted the pieces to the closet walls, removed the Vika Curry legs and rested the Blecket right on there.
Under the table you will see a Trofast system that fits quite well underneath and works great as drawers for stuff.
The lights are Larga lights mounted to the closet shelf. The small table thing that my monitor is on is a Viktor shelf attached to … legs… I can’t remember the name of them!
Oh and I took the old Vika Curry legs and put them on a spare Lack side table that I had. Made this cute little table thing.”
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Posted By admin on June 24, 2009
Cindy always wanted a window seat/bay window thing in her living room. Here’s how she fulfilled her wish with a few Traby bookcases.
She says, “I adapted some Traby bookcases to form a window seat that doubles as a daybed for visiting guests!
The units are basically different size Traby shelf units doubled up so that it’s wide enough to be a bed. I left out the back wall to the front set of shelves so that the hole goes all the way through. The holes can accommodate Bastant baskets.
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Posted By admin on June 23, 2009
Worth catches more than you think possible with an Ikea strainer.He says, “It’s certainly nothing new as it’s been done before, but I’m still kinda proud of it. It involves the Idealisk strainer.I bought one at the Ikea here in Moscow where I’m studying abroad for the summer. I made a Wi-Fi booster antenna with a USB Wi-Fi adapter.See more of Worth’s parabolic strainer Wi-Fi booster.
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Posted By admin on June 20, 2009
A laptop stand for $2.99
A cheap Vink CD rack can be used to prop up your laptop too. The connecting portions are snipped off and filed down. Erik M says “the laptop doesn’t touch the spikes of the cut metal in my case (I use a 14″). And it’s for display only, to raise the screen to the height of your eyes and help with the passive cooling [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By admin on June 19, 2009
It constantly amazes me how Ikea hackers find new ways to use good old Ikea goodies. Aaron Bell and wife Corinne design a cozy Ikea home for a few cute chicks.
He says, “My wife and I recently got into urban chicken farming and built a coop for them almost completely out of materials from Ikea.”
We used the following Ikea products:
- Mydal bunk bed
- Trofast storage unit with shallow drawers
- [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By admin on June 18, 2009
Helga gets crafty with her Svenning chair. The fabric is simply gorgeous.
She says, “I embroidered some fabric I got from the offcuts bin in John Lewis (a big chain of department stores in the UK, who sell good stuff, including lovely fabrics). Then I used it to recover my Svenning Desk Chair, which was getting worn and very, very uncomfortable. I also added some new foam, because the old [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By admin on June 18, 2009
Helga gets crafty with her Svenning chair. The fabric is simply gorgeous.
She says, “I embroidered some fabric I got from the offcuts bin in John Lewis (a big chain of department stores in the UK, who sell good stuff, including lovely fabrics). Then I used it to recover my Svenning Desk Chair, which was getting worn and very, very uncomfortable. I also added some new foam, because the old [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By admin on June 17, 2009
Kalle casts pretty shadows on the wall with this Stockholm bowl.
Kalle says, “It’s a wall lamp with a decorative light cast on the wall itself. The lighting effect is visible at daytime but quite spectacular at night and the ‘wall flower’ is well over 1m large.
The ingredients are:
- Stockholm stainless steel bowl
- 35W reflector bulb
- Electronic dimmer
- Lamp mounting kit and lamp wire
The light fixing is mounted through a [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By admin on June 17, 2009
Kalle casts pretty shadows on the wall with this Stockholm bowl.
Kalle says, “It’s a wall lamp with a decorative light cast on the wall itself. The lighting effect is visible at daytime but quite spectacular at night and the ‘wall flower’ is well over 1m large.
The ingredients are:
- Stockholm stainless steel bowl
- 35W reflector bulb
- Electronic dimmer
- Lamp mounting kit and lamp wire
The light fixing is mounted through a [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By admin on June 16, 2009
All the furniture in Andrew’s house are on wheels. Hmm … certainly makes cleaning easier. For us, he gives the Tullsta Armchair mobility.
He say, “Basically, I remove the stick legs from the Tullsta and replace it with a wood 2×4 box and Rill casters to put the armchair on wheels. 95% of the stuff is Ikea, and can be bought currently. I’ve done this to 4 of my [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By admin on June 12, 2009
Hook up dresses
Andi gets some Bygel rails and hooks. “I used them in my daughters room to hang up dress-up clothes so they are in easy reach for them but organized for me!” Clamping them tight is all you need to do.
See more of her dress-up hangers.
Hook up with colours
Robert changed a seemingly “useless” product into a row of colourful hooks. He says, “I made a nice [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By admin on June 12, 2009
This bathroom remodel is from Tricia, who claims to be the only woman she knows who sleeps with a chop saw.
Tricia tells me, “I live in an old duck-hunting cabin which was gentrified, so I am in process of de-prissying it.
I hacked a Bekvam kitchen cart to make a vanity for the small sink in an unbelievably tiny bathroom.
I reduced the depth and cut new grooves for the angle [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By admin on June 12, 2009
This bathroom remodel is from Tricia, who claims to be the only woman she knows who sleeps with a chop saw.
Tricia tells me, “I live in an old duck-hunting cabin which was gentrified, so I am in process of de-prissying it.
I hacked a Bekvam kitchen cart to make a vanity for the small sink in an unbelievably tiny bathroom.
I reduced the depth and cut new grooves for the angle [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By admin on June 12, 2009
This bathroom remodel is from Tricia, who claims to be the only woman she knows who sleeps with a chop saw.
Tricia tells me, “I live in an old duck-hunting cabin which was gentrified, so I am in process of de-prissying it.
I hacked a Bekvam kitchen cart to make a vanity for the small sink in an unbelievably tiny bathroom.
I reduced the depth and cut new grooves for the angle [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By admin on June 12, 2009
This bathroom remodel is from Tricia, who claims to be the only woman she knows who sleeps with a chop saw.
Tricia tells me, “I live in an old duck-hunting cabin which was gentrified, so I am in process of de-prissying it.
I hacked a Bekvam kitchen cart to make a vanity for the small sink in an unbelievably tiny bathroom.
I reduced the depth and cut new grooves for the angle [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By admin on June 11, 2009
Our reader Sarah is asking for your help. She used the Ikea Hemse Oak Laminate Floor for her entire house a few years ago but recently her kitchen flooded, ruining the flooring in the hallway…
Ikea no longer makes this floor, so if someone has 3 extra boxes to sell, please leave a comment and I will put you in contact with Sarah.
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Posted By admin on June 11, 2009
Our reader Sarah is asking for your help. She used the Ikea Hemse Oak Laminate Floor for her entire house a few years ago but recently her kitchen flooded, ruining the flooring in the hallway…
Ikea no longer makes this floor, so if someone has 3 extra boxes to sell, please leave a comment and I will put you in contact with Sarah.
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Posted By admin on June 11, 2009
Our reader Sarah is asking for your help. She used the Ikea Hemse Oak Laminate Floor for her entire house a few years ago but recently her kitchen flooded, ruining the flooring in the hallway…
Ikea no longer makes this floor, so if someone has 3 extra boxes to sell, please leave a comment and I will put you in contact with Sarah.
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Posted By admin on June 11, 2009
David takes the cooking outdoors by hacking a Varde sink unit into something better than a BBQ grill.
He says, “When we moved to California, our apartment had an electric stove, which we hate. Also, we wanted to be outside on the patio to enjoy the weather. We’re vegetarians, so we don’t actually grill that much. So we did this instead. We got a Varde sink unit on sale, enlarged [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By admin on June 11, 2009
David takes the cooking outdoors by hacking a Varde sink unit into something better than a BBQ grill.
He says, “When we moved to California, our apartment had an electric stove, which we hate. Also, we wanted to be outside on the patio to enjoy the weather. We’re vegetarians, so we don’t actually grill that much. So we did this instead. We got a Varde sink unit on sale, enlarged [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By admin on June 9, 2009
Jimmy from Belgium takes to needle and thread to sew himself a netbook bag.
He says, “Yippie, I got myself a 10’ netbook, but how do I hold on to it as long as possible without anyone else stealing it? Well, you can get a obvious netbook bag or sleeve, but that says ‘Hey, inside is a netbook’. Instead I chose to disguise it. I took a Venny Placemat folded [...] Continue Reading…
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Posted By admin on June 9, 2009
Jimmy from Belgium takes to needle and thread to sew himself a netbook bag.
He says, “Yippie, I got myself a 10’ netbook, but how do I hold on to it as long as possible without anyone else stealing it? Well, you can get a obvious netbook bag or sleeve, but that says ‘Hey, inside is a netbook’. Instead I chose to disguise it. I took a Venny Placemat folded [...] Continue Reading…
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