Archive for November, 2008

How to save 11,644.07 on a designer lighting fixture!

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

My wife and I posted almost exactly a year ago a request for ideas on how we could recreate the chandler pictured. We got mostly comments on how amazed people were that a light could cost almost 12K! In the past year we have worked hard remodeling our 1880 home to a modern contempory dwelling. [...]

Henriksdal gets a dye job

Friday, November 28th, 2008

This salad bowl sounds good

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Bare bones computer case

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Davide R uses the kitchen tray Variera (can’t find the link on Ikea’s website) as a bare bones computer case. Does it work? Doesn’t it get all dusty? It looks cool though in a Transformers kind of way.

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Bare bones computer case

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Mirrored vanity desk

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Jule inherited an old piece of furniture which she deftly upgraded into a mirrored vanity. Guess mirrors and vanity do go well together.
Jule says, “I was given an old student desk which my parents bought at a garage sale before I was born. I never liked it, but it was really functional as a vanity [...]

Ikea recalls Iris and Alvine Roman Blinds

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Sad news. Please do be careful if you own the Iris or Alvine roman blinds, especially if you have a child.
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission release, on April 4, 2008, a 1-year-old girl in Greenwich, Conn. became entangled in the inner cord of an IKEA Roman Blind and strangled. The child was [...]

Lack light table for silkscreen painting

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Kayobi hacked the perfect light table from the Lack coffee table.
She says, “I needed a light table to work on finding the tiny holes when hand painting silkscreens. I had precious little space in my game room/craft room. I had been using an Ikea Lack table as a workspace anyway so I decided it [...]

Mirrored vanity desk

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Ikea recalls Iris and Alvine Roman Blinds

Monday, November 24th, 2008