Ever needed to lug a mattress, a box spring or a heavy, clunky wooden or
metal bed up or down a few flights of stairs or load it into a car or
van? Or worried about having to throw away an otherwise perfectly usable
and expensive mattress / box springs because of bedbugs? Your bed and
mattress (plu…By: sbansban
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I wanted a portable, lightweight and inexpensive platform bed substitute
that I could put together and take apart at will and whose individual
pieces I could carry in my car when I move. I did find a few metal bed
frames that seemed at least somewhat portable -
Materials: Ribba Frame, Polarvide blanket
Description: My girlfriend keeps on leaving her jewelry on top of our new (and rather expensive :/ ) white lacked piece of furniture. It was time to build a solution to avoid scratches and display jewelry in style. My idea, her perfect execution!
TOTAL cost of the hack: 16 Eur
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Materials: Ikea kitchen wall panels
Description: I didn’t want to have bypassing sliding doors for my bedroom closet and thought one door would save space. My house is old but didn’t have much in the way of good salvageable architectural details. I bought some Ikea kitchen cover panels (look for them in the damaged area, [...]
Materials: White 3 shelf BILLY bookcase, 2 x LIDINGO Glass panel doors, DIODER Lighting pack, 2 pack TYDA Handles, MDF for frame, TV antenna socket, Power socket, PVC piping, Jigsaw, Drill, Liquid nails
Description: Due to the small size of our living room I converted our already closed up fireplace into a lit book cabinet [...]
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Materials: Dave laptop table
Description: This is my second luggage project. I love to upcycle old luggage into tables, so it seems. This guy was given to me in his original pre-loved state by a wonderful man I work with during the holidays when he heard I was into ‘the luggage’. He had used it and [...]
Materials: Ikea Shoe Rack (Lustifik)
Description: First and foremost I have to qualify/justify why I made these speaker stands (before the audiophiles out there cry blasphemy and take me for a fool not understanding the need for a $300 USD stand with zero resonance and spikes/cones for legs)
1) I needed to space out the speakers [...]
Materials: Expedit 2×4, Expedit 4×4
Description: It all started with placing two Expedit units on top of each other; I ended up with something very colourful. There are way too many stages in this project to explain it all in 5 pictures. If you’d like to see more, go here.
1. As I wanted to separate my [...]