Archive for the 'Ikea Hacks' Category

Varde Shelf Duck/Bath Light Swan

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Materials: Varde Shelf/6 light strip light/Plexiglass
Description: We remodeled our bath with Ikea GODMORGON series and couldn’t find a light fixture we liked that fit the budget. As I debated the design dilemma our son, Michael offered to design/build one.

We couldn’t find a birch wood that matched the GODMORGON birch so I [...]

UDDEN hacked as His and Hers shoe rack

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Materials: 2 UDDEN Kichen Cabinets, drill, toggle bolts
Description: In my rental unit I had a nice entry but no coat closet to hide my shoes in. The standard skinny shoe racks never appealed to my eyes from the design perspective. They screamed “shoes”. And I decided to create my own shoe something. [...]

Ornate custom dry erase board

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Materials: Ung Drill Frame, Snow & Graham Paper
Description:
1. Spray paint frame with several (plus several more!) coats of white gloss paint
2. Cut paper and spray glue to cardboard backing
3. Draw Samoyed with white gel pen on vellum paper
4. Cut out
5. Glue to front of paper background
6. clean glass and [...]

Fwd: rainbow bed

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Materials: Eina, duct tape
Description: We wanted a bed for our 4-year-old son, and after purchasing a second-hand disaster that kept falling apart on us, we decided to go for something simple. IKEA! The only problem is that we didn’t really like any of their twin beds, and the space in our son’s room was tight. [...]

Rainbow bed

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Materials: Eina, duct tape
Description: We wanted a bed for our 4-year-old son, and after purchasing a second-hand disaster that kept falling apart on us, we decided to go for something simple. IKEA! The only problem is that we didn’t really like any of their twin beds, and the space in our son’s room was tight. [...]

Ikea Regolit night light

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Materials: Regolit
Description: On the smaller Regolit lamp shade, the 11-inch one, I wanted to make it into a night light but having it as a white shade filtered out too much light. I wanted a BOJA effect to it so I painted it with Acrylic Black paint. And then punched some holes on them in [...]

Ikea bikini + summer clothing line!

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Materials: Frakta shopping bag
Description: It’s summer and I made a Frakta bikini!
And then developed a whole line of Ikea inspired swimwear.
It is also a hack of the H&M summer swim line.
So it’s a double Swedish hack!
And those are ovenmitts as bikini tops!
Too hot to handle, we hope!

Enjoy + Lots of Sun!
See more at BetterThanLiving.com.
~ Adriana

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Workstation from Pax wardrobe

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Materials: Pax wardrobe, Valter brackets
Description: This is my closet office that is composed almost entirely from Ikea components (to include the JULES swivel chair not pictured).
Basically I took an old PAX wardrobe and cut it to fit the ends of my closet. Then I took an old tabletop (I can’t remember the name but [...]

BESTÅ Bench Home Theater Hack

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Materials: BESTÅ Bench, BESTÅ Tofta, Integral Hinge, Integral Damper, BESTÅ Legs
Description:
I recently won a new Panasonic 50″ VT25 and Panasonic DMP-BD350 3D Blu-ray player through Panasonic. Well, with the newly added TV I decided to change my Ikea Benno Black/Brown stand and go with something cleaner and simpler to [...]

Sculptures (Composition 1,2,3)

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

We want to point your attention to our Ikea-related project:

The idea was to build “artworks” which are replicable at a moderate cost by everyone by following the instructions we provide.

The sculptures were exhibited at the “Museo Cantonalde d’Arte” in Lugano, Switzerland.
See more here.
~ Andreas Gysin, Sidi Vanetti

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