Materials: LACK TV unit and LACK side table
Description: I found that by switching the legs on the Lack end table and the TV stand I could get the height I wanted for the TV stand and have a little table for my stereo which wouldn’t fit inside the Lack TV stand.
Hi Everyone. I would like to add a Malm Headboard to my existing bed frame. I would put it on legs and place over the arm of this futon/bed frame. (It’s my regular frame and its always open. It’s flush against a wall and the lower sides toward the head of the bed are pretty hidden, 1 side has a dresser next to it and the other side is also against a wall/window). I am really a novice but I am thinking of ways to do this and am hopeful some can give me some insight or help. I don’t have a power drill but can buy an inexpensive one. I don’t have a saw but can buy a hand one for like $10.
I would put the Malm headboard on 2 legs, and place put it over the arm. Here is a photo of the frame that is just like mine (plus a drawing of what it looks like when a frame like that is open. And there is a little render I made of the placement of things as they would be seen from behind. Excuse how uneven.
For the first step, on Rachel and Zoey’s hack, I saw that they put a piece of wood on the length of bottom of the malm h/b so that the screws had something strong to go into since the Malm is not solid. So I’m pretty sure I need to do that. I’m going to check in with Home Depot today about pre-cut wood, should it be any particular kind? Sorry guys, really novice. And to adhere, I just gorilla glue and use nails or screws, right? I don’t have a clamp/vice to set it, can i gorilla glue, then use hammer and nails, then stand the joined pieces perpendicular to the floor and let the weight of the headboard do the job?
2. Then I think I need to add legs to the h/b, one at each end. How do I attach those? Do I use those dowl-like big double ended screws? Or will a bunch of braces be okay. They seem like they might be easier.
3. Then I gotta put h/b w/ legs over the top of the arm, set it into place and somehow attach the bottom of the headboard to the arm so it’s not just resting there but joined. The arm is 2” wide (around the same as the Malm hb thickness) and has about a 1” lip sticking out, can I screw screws from underneath the lip up into the bottom of the headboard? Maybe Gorrilla glue it first? And/or maybe L-braces? I know this doesn’t hold it up and just puts it in place, but …
4. Then to keep it held up I was thinking to take 3’ or so piece of wood, maybe ¾” thick and less than 2” wide, to run from ¾ from the top of the hb to ¾’s of the way to the bottom of the legs i added. That will give it some hold to stay up I’m thinking? I heard there’s some wood the malm hb around the perimeter a bit over a ½ inch wide, will that be enough wood for me to use to adhere the wood plank to?
5. Then I believe there’s 4-6” width of wood running down the middle inside the malm hb, is that about right? So I could do either the same board plank idea there but what about running one of those tension wire rope cable things and that would actually hold it up for sure (i think). I could run it from ¾’s from the top of the h/b (maybe securing it with something like either an eye bolt, or a vertically placed fence bracket, something like that, or some other kind of bracket with a space to loop the wire through, to down to the last horizontal wood piece on the frame arm, loop it around that an fasten with wire rope clips. That would hold the headboard up and take the pressure off the wood planks. I have no idea if that will pull it then too hard, or if it just isn’t the right thing to do altogether for some reason, or what.
Any thoughts the planning above? What will work, what wouldn’t, what I should add and any advice on the logistics, etc?
Materials:
- NOT lamp
- BLANDA Blank salad bowl
- FIXA hole-cutting thingy
Description: This hack is pretty self-explanatory. I have one of the old silver NOT lamps, and after many years the polypropylene shade has become a bit scratched and icky. So I replaced it with the 28cm/11″ stainless steel Blanda salad bowl. I drilled a circle of holes in the bottom and used the FIXA as a punch. I think the curve of the bowl merges perfectly with the NOT.
Materials: UTBY
Description: The Ikea Utby is a nice bar stable. Unfortunately, it is only available in brown when we were in the store. Nearby, I notice a white board surface for a small office table. The dimensions of the white board work out to be perfect replacement for the Utby brown top. So we grabbed only the Utby stainless steel frame and the white board. To protect the white board for use in the kitchen as a small dining table, I asked a local window store to cut us a piece of glass with the dimensions of the white board. The result is a super clean bar table perfect for two people!
Materials: PAX
Description: My staircase are clearly visible at the front entrance door. This is considered a huge taboo in Asian culture. The solution is a Pax dresser standing directly between the entrance and the staircase. Luckily for us, the Pax doors fit on the back as well as the front side of the dresser!
The hardest part was cutting a piece of plywood to divide the Pax dresser into two parts. The front part works as a shoe rack. The back part was for hanging coats and flip-flops for walking indoors.
Materials: STRÖMBY (frame 70×100 cm), MÅLA (markers and eraser)
Description: I made a year calendar that allows you to view and organize the entire year.
- Draw the grid in the back of the paper that comes with the frame;
- Print the days and month names and glue them to the frame;
- Reassemble the frame (keeping the paper behind the glass);
- Draw the weekends on top of the glass as showed in the picture;
- Write unchangeable events like birthdays with permanent marker (optional);
- Write all other events with “MÅLA” markers.
- Enjoy!
Full details here.
Enjoy!
- Rich
Hello,
As the title says, I am having troubles with my Skruvsta lounge chair.
The maximum seating height just isn’t enough.
So I really need some ideas how to raise it about 5-7cm, because a second pillow isn’t really a comfy all time-solution for me…
I’d really appreciate your support and your ideas! Thank you very much in advance!
We don’t have a ton of closets in our house and I didn’t like having jugs of cat litter out for everyone to see, so I went to IKEA looking for clever ways to hide it. I didn’t measure the pillows; luckily they fit perfectly and it’s easy as heck!
1 ÄPPLARÖ bench
2 HÅLLÖ seat cushions
Ingredients:
1 Regolit Shade Lamp + tape + paint
1) Make the top hole bigger, so your head fits in it, but don’t cut near the metalic ‘loopies’; you still need them to keep the metal structure in place and stretch the lamp open.
2) Reinforce with some tape.
3) Cut a little spyhole.
4) Paint a pupil & iris around it.
5) Put the sphere on your head, then stretch it open by introducing the metal structure.
6) And remember to bring a straw if you want to drink at the party!
