Add a Keyboard Tray to a Besta Desk By: Bill Hutchison

Materials: Besta

Description: After trying two different keyboard trays for my new Ikea Besta desk, with no success, I finally decided that I needed to build my own.

The space between the two end panels of the desk isn’t too long, so I ended up purchasing a couple of drawer slides and a white shelf from the local hardware store and mounted it in the already existing holes on the desk sides.

Worked out pretty well for under $20!

You can see the step by step instructions on how I built this on my web-site.

via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/NO9kfA_nbv4/add-a-keyboard-tray-to-a-besta-desk.html From Bill Hutchison

Faktum Chinese Styled Shoe Cabinet By: Yap Wai Hoong

Materials: Faktum

Description: Finally we are having a proper shoe cabinet to hide away shoes – after living in this home for some 9 years.

Bought 2 units of Ikea Kitchen wall cabinet, fastened them together side to side. Got myself 6 solid wood cabinet feet and mounted on the base of cabinet.

I painted on the interior side of the backboard turquoise, just to give it a bit of a surprise within – and keeping loud colours subtle.

Then I bought 2 units of these Chinese Brassplates from Internet and mounted them on the cabinet doors to serve as door pulls.

The result is kind of a modern cabinet with a little vintage feel to it.

via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/LlzdqoYGoXE/faktum-chinese-styled-shoe-cabinet.html From Yap Wai Hoong

Under Sink Hanging Rail for Cleaning Stuffs By: anhnguyen81

Material: Bygel rail, Grundtal

Description: Affix a Bygel rail into the insides of your cabinet to hook up your bottles by the handle.

via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/gYdwBMz0Ahk/under-sink-hanging-rail-for-cleaning-stuffs.html From anhnguyen81

Banner for a birthday party By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: SKÖTSEL coaster

Description: My three year old requested a pirate themed birthday bash, but as he is only three I did not think that a lot of scull and bones were the right way to go.

So I decided to incorporate a lot of color with paper lantern and such. On a visit to Ikea I saw the SKÖTSEL coaster and an idea was born.

I printed out letters, placed them on top of the coaster and traced through, and then filled in the letter with a permanent marker. I cut some canvas into flags and then after cutting a hole on the Skötsel, tied the two together.

Outcome – Birthday banner

I also cut up the MARIT table runner to make an up an “island”, using the DITTE fabric as the “sea”. REKO glasses were decorated with tabe

See more of the coaster banner.

~ Soffia Gardarsdottir, Iceland

via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/Nt30xCHOvzs/banner-for-a-birthday-party.html From Jules IKEAHacker

Bed Frame with Lots of Storage By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: 2 Malm 6-Drawer Dressers, 2 Malm 2-drawer chests, two boxes built out of MDF measuring 16x9x19 inches, 1 Sultan Luroy Bed Slats (Full size), 1 Full size mattress

Description: My girlfriend recently moved into a New York City apartment, and our bedroom is very small. There is no closet, and our spacing options were limited because of a radiator, the entrance, and a door to the bathroom. We both needed chests of drawers and night stands, but didn’t want to sacrifice all of our free space. This is what we came up with to save space – we turned our dressers and night stands into our bed frame. By maximizing our space vertically, we now easily fit all of our stuf f into our bedroom, and also have a very comfortable sleeping arrangement. Plus, we also have a storage space under the mattress between the chests of drawers. Aside from the little hop that it takes to get into bed, this is the ideal set up.

Directions:

The combined length of a malm 6-drawer dresser, lined up with a malm 2-drawer chest matches perfectly with the length of a full size mattress. Just build the box out of MDF to the dimensions specified above (to lift up the 2-drawer chest to the height of the dresser) and you’re more than half way there.

Lay the slats across the dressers so that the space in the middle is covered. They lay your mattress over the slats. I bolted some of the slats (every third one)down to the dresser so they would not slide around

Screw it all together. The dressers to the MDF boxes, and the dressers to the night stands.

I built a head board and attached it too, but this is a different project and doesn’t involve ikea products. Still, if this is something you are interested in, you should bolt it down under the slats.

~ Michael, New York City

via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/YGBmv1hSB0k/bed-frame-with-lots-of-storage.html From Jules IKEAHacker

A rack on a Laiva desk By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: Laiva desk, Sultan Lade slatted bed-base, saw, nail and hammer

Description: My daughter has a Laiva desk but she doesn’t need the cable organizer and very often her pen rolls into it …

So I decided to build a rack for her.

It was easy because the Sultan Lade slats were as large as the desk.

First of all, I separated the slats, pulling off the ribbon.

I cut two slats into 13,5 centimeter pieces.

I nailed two times two slats together with those little pieces, so the rack is deep enough.

I nailed two times two slats (28cm).

Then I fixed together the frame of the rack, nailing all together.

I cut 4cm from two new slats, I fixed them together with a 13.5 cm piece. I fixed this “set” to the rack and added a little 13,8cm piece to create a little case.

I painted the finished rack in pink, because my daughter loves this color…

I cut 2 10cm pieces and I painted them to.

I fixed this piece at the edge of the cable organizer and then fixed the rack in the middle, nailing it.

With the same idea, I did a rack for another daughter with 4 slats of 1m long and 10cm large (It’s the purple one).

With the same idea, I did a rack for my sewing machine, with the rest of the slatted bed-base.

See more of the Laiva hack.

~ Gwendoline, Suisse

via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/tLR5xzycJz4/a-rack-on-a-laiva-desk.html From Jules IKEAHacker

Fabrikör Lighthouse By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: Fabrikör glass cabinet, Blanda Blank bowl, Drömmar springform, Jonosfär lamp

Description: I’ve created the lighthouse as part of the contest “Pimp my Ikea” for Ikea Austria.

1. Paint the cabinet

2. Drill a hole for “drommar” springform in the bowl; and two holes for screws; drill also a hole for the lamp cable into “drömmar” springform

3. Install lamp socket from the DIY store

4. Jonosfär pendant lamp to the top

~ Siegfried Hödl, Austria

via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/-prZeyAVqiY/fabrikor-lighthouse.html From Jules IKEAHacker