Materials: 2x Lack shelves, chalkboard paint, nails, Duct tape, glue Description: After moving to another place we had 2 Lack shelves which we didn't use. Throw away was not an option.. (Instead of the Lack shelves you can use any other boards) Here's how to make one yourself: Paint your Lack shelves with chalkboard paint and glue them togeth
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Materials: 2 x FAKTUM 40x70cm cabinets, 2 x NEXUS 40x70cm cabinet doors, 2 x RATIONELL Deep fully-extending drawer+damper, 2 x VINNA 320mm handles, 4 x SLUGIS plastic bins Description: I needed a comfortable way (and space) to sort waste materials in my kitchen, so I decided to build a stylish cabinet with sliding drawers. Since I already had a
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Materials: Ikea Ivar Chair Description: Our Ikea hack could quite possibly be the largest Ikea hack ever! This summer we will be constructing a 1000 square foot pavilion made of 400 Ikea Ivar chairs arrayed and stacked in a 3-dimensional sine wave surface rising above the ground in Freedom Park, Atlanta Georgia. It's public art, but also usable in
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Materials: Ikea bracket EKBY STÖDIS + chipboard Description: Simple way to create "Infinite" storage system. Material for the production: atypically ready chipboard and EKBY STÖDIS brackets. Watch out! Console does not always right angle! ~ Dusan Koclik, Slovakia, Bratislava
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Materials: SPONTAN Description: I just pepped up the old magazine-holder SPONTAN. I glued on some beautiful gift wrapping with glue lacquer, and now it fits my creative corner. ~ Lili, Denmark
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Materials: Expedit shelves, Vika Amon corner desk top, Capita legs, Capita brackets Description: I've really wanted a stand-up desk for sometime and although there are lots of great Ikea hacks posted for this, they either didn't have enough storage room for me, were the wrong height, or just weren't my style. So, after looking through the Ikea web
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Materials: Godmorgon wash basin stands, wood dowels, spare wood Description: I found a stack of Godmorgon wash basin stands in the As-Is section on clearance for dirt cheap, so I picked up as many as I could fit in two car loads. They are good quality, and have great soft-closing drawer slides with extra dividers to put in the drawers, and I thoug
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Materials: Godmorgon sink basin stands,scrap wood, screws, your old bed parts (if desired) Description: I found a stack of Godmorgon sink basin stand for dirt cheap on clearance in the Ikea As-Is section, so I filled up my little car with as many as I could fit (twice). The Godmorgon basin stands are good quality, and have very nice soft-closing d
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Materials: Besta Jagra TV stand, doors, hinges Description: I was looking for a TV stand, so I went to check out my options in the Ikea As-Is section. I found a Besta Jagra TV stand with the drawers missing, and just the middle shelf, with nothing to hide the electronics inside. I looked around some more and found some nice gloss black patterned
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Materials: Lack shelf, discontinued shelf parts from As-Is, metal brackets and screws Description: I bought my wife a digital piano, but didn't want to buy a piano bench since they tend to be fairly expensive. So I took a trip to Ikea and had a browse of the As-Is section. I found a pine Lack shelf and some parts from a different discontinued p
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Materials: Lack table [black], spray paint, silicone, jig saw, Description: As our granddaughter grew taller, we needed to add height to the existing black Lack table used by her for her tea party time. We used 3 3/4" unpainted fence post finials (w/screw already imbedded in the finial) and thin 1/4" wood wafer circles cut to hide the top of the
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Materials: 2x Besta 60x20x200 Description: I bought two Besta in same size. Cut the upper part to the preferred size, in this case 150cm high. Mount 2 hinges between the two box. Screwed the shelves into to boxes with rails for the glasses. Covered first with foam and after with leather using 2sided tape. Decorate with nails on the edges and locks.
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Materials: Ivar shelving, lumber (luan, pine plank, molding), various mending plates, L-brackets, handtools (saw, screwdrivers), power tools (circular saw, drill, Dremel). Description: My flat is rather small and I have a large computer workstation so maximizing space and being able to integrate work and living space is important to me. Also, from
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Materials: Mandal Headboard Description: Not really a hack but a modification. I love the look of the Mandal but our recent downsize left us with a very cramped bedroom. So we chopped the ends of of two Mandals and mounted them on the side walls. The only addition was to add a extra strip of wood along the back of the side pieces to keep all the
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Materials: UDDEN Wall units, coated chipboard, metal angles, screws Description: I was looking for a sideboard/storage unit for the living room. As I have a open kitchen that can be seen from the sofa, I wanted something to match with my UDDEN kitchen units. Still considering different solutions, I bought two wall units for the kitchen. As I as
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Materials: PS SVINGA Description: Alternative mounting making an indoor children's swing chair a nice garden swing for the parents. ~ Bjarne Bisballe, Denmark
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Materials: ALVINE Bedspread, 100" zipper, upholstery thread, sewing machine Description: I am going camping in a few weeks, and I wanted a sleeping bag with style. Along those lines, I devised this very simple sleeping bag hack. SOVSÄCK means "sleeping bag" in Swedish according to Google Translate. :) You will need: 1 Sewing Machine (or a
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Materials: Rykene Ikea full size bed. Description: We wanted to jazz up an existing Rykene bed in guest room of our recently purchased home. I had done a little bit of research on tufting and found a great tutorial for making tufted headboards. Using a pegboard and some 3 inch foam, I laid out a pattern of tufts. Using pegboard was the most ingen
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Materials: TERTIAL Lamp Description: For my father's 64th birthday, I wanted to make him an LED table lamp. I have quite a few unused TERTIAL lamps from IKEA and thought I'd give them a new lease of life. The lamp was easy enough to dismantle and by prying the black plastic pieces at the end of the metal tubes, you can effectively remove the
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Materials: transparent Samla box 53x37x12, peat rich in organic matter, vegetable seedlings Description: Do you want to grow your own fresh salad in your balcony? It's much more simple than you thought. You just need ground and seedlings! Fill the samla box with soil, plant the seedlings and water well! In a month your lettuce and fresh onion
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Materials: Expedit, betydlig Description: Super simple hack, but I'm proud of myself for getting it done. My Expedit has been an eye-sore in my living room for the past month or so. It has everything in besides books; my dog's food/snacks, baking dishes, shoes, craft items etc. I've been looking for different ways to cover it up; Expedit inserts,
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Materials: 5xVika Amon (black-brown, 29.5x59), 1xGalant Drawer Unit on Casters, 3xblack-brown rails (as-is), framing 2x4's, 3 & 4 inch construction screws, L brackets, straight brackets, drywall screw anchors Description: When reading the book "Med School Confidential," my girlfriend came across their number one piece of advice for setting up a
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Materials: Sultan Lade bed slats, saw, drill with screwdriver bit, screws, hammer, finishing nails Description: Saw some kitchen island that I liked but none of them had the exact dimensions I needed, nor did I want to spend $50+ on something that didn't work for us. Every renter can use a little extra counter space, right? So I came across a g
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Materials: 1 Kura bed, 4 Flynn Lill, 1 Ribba, 2 Sultan Florvag, 1 Barnslig Natten, 1 Dioder, plastic duct 10 cm x 3 mt, pink painting Description: A castle bunk bed for my two little daughters, with special effects, I hope you enjoy it :) See more of the Kura castle bunk bed. ~ Anna, Italy
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Materials: Lack End Table. Glue Gun and Glue Sticks, baseball cards Description: Purchase of 22" x 22" Lack end table. Picked out 1970's 80's Baseball cards of players I remembered. Used Glue Gun to affix cards to table top. Used white glue, 3 parts with 1 part water and applied to cards' faces. Once dried I used an Epoxy Resin mix to se
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