What Class Do You Want? From Jackie

Today's Inspiration comes from guest blogger Jackie Be sure to check out their blog!

I am planning new e-courses for 2014 and I want your input! Please take this quick poll and let me know which class you think I should launch next. Whatever class wins will be the next new class to launch!

After you make a choice below, you will be able to click a link (labeled “see previous responses”) to see current results of the poll. I will keep the poll open for one week, through Nov. 8th.

Have other class ideas? Please feel free to comment and share your ideas below. I can’t wait to hear what you want to learn more about.

Instant colored wainscoating in 10 mins. No paint needed. By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: Sanela Panel, staple gun.

Description: I wanted to cover up the boring white wall under chair rail molding in a rented apt. Could have painted it but didn’t have the time to paint.

Got two IKEA Sanela Panels in grey. I hadn’t measured or anything. Thought it would be a good experiment.

They fit perfectly without any cutting.They had just the right stiffness and good texture like a grass cloth. I just got my staple gun and put them in position. 10 minutes later the room looked warmer, cozier and I was done!

~ Kathy Yaude, LA, CA area

via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/lobF2uHOfIQ/instant-colored-wainscoating-in-10-mins-no-paint-needed.html From Jules IKEAHacker

Stranne Jellyfish Lamp By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: STRANNE, BLANDA BLANK, some cables, luster terminals, pliers, screwdrivers, wire strap

Description: I was bored of looking at my STRANNE floor lamp. It looked great at IKEA, but I could never find a decent place in any of my rooms – so I decided to dissemble it.

Since those wired LED tubes are like tentacles I grabbed a BLANDA BLANK bowl to make it look like a jellyfish. I was only fooling around, but it turned out to look great!

I made a hole in each bowl, pulled through a cable and used luster terminals and wire strap to fix the tubes/tentacles underneath the bowl. Et voilà! My new STRANNE Jellyfish ceiling-lamp was born.

~ Gerrit Fries, Ruhrort, Germany

via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/ijs6asd0oW8/stranne-jellyfish-lamp.html From Jules IKEAHacker

Kura bed with reclaimed wood By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: Kura bed, white paint, reclaimed wood wall coverage

Description: We’ve painted the Kura bed wood white.

Then we covered the panels with a reclaimed wood wall coverage.

~ Simone Jacobs

via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/gEqU4cenx20/kura-bed-with-reclaimed-wood.html From Jules IKEAHacker

Quick and Easy Jewelry Stand By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: ÅRYD Tealight holder, HULTET Dish bamboo, metal decorative plate

Description: You can pick up any plate or candle holders you want. Mix and match the colors – have it fit your current decor! I picked up this metal lace plate because the holes are perfect (and strong enough) for earrings.

1) Layer glue on the bottom side of the candlestick holder. Press gently but firmly onto the center of the bottom plate.

2) Layer glue on the top side of the candlestick holder. Press center of top plate onto candlestick holder. Let rest for 8 hours or more. (Or, if you’€™re impatient, just start throwing stuff on! Just don’€™t lift it by the top plate).

3) Start throwing your bling on!

See more of the DIY jewelry stand.

~ Betty, Boston

via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/5kYhRfXioiY/quick-and-easy-jewelry-stand.html From Jules IKEAHacker

Antonius kitty window seat By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: Antonius wire basket

Description: My kitty needed some fresh air; and so did we. Problem was, our ghetto-ass apartment has no screen in half the windows. See, our kitty Po Boy likes to escape when he gets the chance. Jump on the roof of the neighbor’s car and spend a fine evening courting the ladies. Well that just ain’t how a civilized kitty ought to behave, so we looked around the apartment for a good solution. We had too many of these Antonius baskets kickin’ around anyway; add a tea towel and you’ve got a perfect window seat for old don gato. I’d say this compromise is a win-win.

~ jen chapman, United States

via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/EZJpRzBcBps/antonius-kitty-window-seat.html From Jules IKEAHacker

Field of Flowers Crochet Poäng Chair By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: Poäng Chair and Footstool, Korndal Beige Cushions

Description: I love my Poäng, but I had nowhere to put it after moving to my new house. I also needed a comfortable new office chair for work and the Poäng fit the bill. I like having a place to sit back when the stress level is high, and I can type while sitting near the end of the chair. I decided to make a new chair cover because the cushions were stained after several years of use.

Unfortunately, I can’t sew well enough to make it look professional (I did manage to make new covers for my Börje dining room chairs, but that only required scissors and a staple gun). I also couldn’t find any fabric I liked for the job. But I can crochet…

I found a free flower pattern on Pinterest and started making motifs using a G hook and all of the blue and purple yarn in my stash. After making a rectangle about the size of the front of the cushion, I crocheted a stretchy back V stitch (double crochet, chain 1, double crochet, repeat) for enough rows to just barely stretch across the back. Then I joined the top and bottom (slip stitch, chain 1, slip stitch in other side). I stretched the edges and joined them in a similar fashion.

After working in all of the ends, it looks great! It’s not easily removable, but it cleans easily with fabric cleaners. And it only cost about $10 because I needed to buy new yarn for the back.

I really like the V stitch on the back and I think the entire cushion would look good covered with that as well. It shapes around the cushion very easily. Stripes would be very easy to do that way. Granny squares might also work, but I don’t think they would stretch as well.

~ Heather, Wisconsin, USA

via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/GAz9qUefAYg/field-of-flowers-crochet-poang-chair.html From Jules IKEAHacker

MOD-ify the Basisk Pendant Light By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: Basisk Pendant Light, Wire-caged Basket, Spray Paint

Description: I needed a light for my workspace. I wanted to find a really awesome Pendant Light. I poked around online and found some that were amazing, but a little too expensive for me to handle. I had a very basic $17.00 IKEA pendant light left over from my kitchen update. $17-40.00 was more like my budget, but, it was so small and lacked any funk at all. Plus it looked like it belonged in a kitchen.

I was hoping to snag an inexpensive, awesome, retro light from our favorite second hand building supply stores, Second Use Building Materials or RE Store.We all kept our eyes open over several days, weeks, months. Nothing seemed to show up. We looked at the itty-bitty IKEA kitchen light again and that day Heidi mentioned that she had just bought a wire basket on sale at Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft that was a similar shape. What if we flipped it upside down?

We pried off the bottom seal of the cage and slipped the lamp mounting through the opening – shockingly – it fit.

Exciting. It worked and I loved it…mostly. The original green color of the basket clashed with the rest of the space and in particular with the lime green wall.

So we decided to spray paint it a hammered steel color. Yep, that color exists.

The hammered steel color worked better with the whole palette of the space. Those blue pieces of tape on the wall marked the pendant light height we were aiming for. I don’t want to hear a word about leaving that tape in the image Heidi. That goes for you too, Monica. Zip it!

Next Step: How to hang this wonderful $29.00 pendant light? The IKEA light did come with a cheap looking little-thingy-madoo to attach it to a ceiling. We had other projects going so we decided to keep our eyes open for something else. A thing of some sort. A way to hang it that had an industrial feel in some way. While digging through baskets full of reclaimed hardware during one of our many trips to Second Use Building Materials, we spotted a ceramic insulated….thing… with a galvanized screw end. During that same trip, Heidi spotted another piece that she was sure we could use to hold the cord to the wall in some way. I trust her, so I decided to spend $1.00 on this experiment. We bought the two pieces for $6.00.

Using a stud finder tool we were able to locate a ceiling joist and it somehow was exactly where we wanted it. We seem to be lucky that way. We screwed the $5.00 ceramic insulator into the ceiling joist, first hot-gluing 2 large galvanized washers to the ceiling to create a finished look. The wall hardware experiment does a spectacular job of holding the new pendant light from landing on my head while I type out this post. It was worth the dollar.

See more of the pendant light.

~ Hammer Like A Girl, Seattle

via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/4bY5fvDT--E/mod-ify-the-basisk-pendant-light.html From Jules IKEAHacker