Ribba K-Cup Hanger By: Kitty

I recently bought the Keurig coffee maker, I love to display the K-Cups variety that I have, but because of the lack of counter space, I have to hack my own K-Cup holder. And the Ikea Ribba frame seems to fit the “depth” of a K-Cup.

So here is what I did:

1.Dissembled the Ribba Frame

2. Use the Glass to measure the “square” on a thick carton paper.

3. Cut holes as many as you want as long as it fit in the square and leaving enough room between the holes for support – I manage to do 16 holes, and of course you can cut less and make it an interesting pattern.

4. The other component that you will need from the Ribba frame is only the wooden square that holds the carton paper in place. All other component, you can use it somewhere else or throw it away. (The frame doesn’t have a closed back. Because it will be too thick to fit a k-cup otherwise)

5. Attach/fasten a hook on the Ribba Frame.

6. Fasten everything and you are done, now hang on the wall and enjoy.

Get Keurig coffee maker here

Get K-Cups here

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Stylish TV audio cabinet By: Steven

Easy does it…just build your Besta cabinet following the instructions. Then make sure you have some nice wooden layers…we used acacia wood. All you need is three boards that fit well…glue them for better support and you have a fancy TV cabinet which also houses all your audio equipment out of sight.

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Loft Playhouse Bed By: JC Braithwaite

While putting my 3 year old daughter to bed, she asked me to tell her a story about Christmas from my memory. I told her about a playhouse my dad built in our basement. She said she wanted a playhouse. We live in Florida and do not have a basement, so I got creative.

She already had the Hemnes daybed. We have 10′ ceilings- so I built up. We bought a Stora full sized loft bed and cut 7″ off the legs. We raised the support bars to clear the bed. We used 2 stair step and 1 flat Trofast storage (pine) to form stairs. We reinforced with plywood and 2X4 posts at the ends. I used wainscoting I got for $10 a sheet at Habitat for Humanity Thrift store, to box the interior and exterior.

We bought fence posts from Home Depot and a hand rail from Habitat for Humanity thrift store to make the railing. The threshold for the door was made from the unused pieces from the ladder and railing from the loft. I found shadow box picture frames for .50 each at a flea market and used them for the upstairs windows. The shutters are picture frames with stenciled foam core. The window boxes are ice bins from Walmart that I stenciled. The panels with the windows on the bottom are easily removed because they are on a track made with L shaped molding. Those windows are made of dollar store picture frames. The lower bed part is nice because she has a great shelf (and I have secret storage in the dead space between the wall and the edge of the bed. The curtain is a skirt I got for $1 at a thrift store. For the upstairs floor we used MDF and carpet we had left over from our house. The “roof” opens to the ceiling but the top of the walls are capped with vinyl guttering turned upside down ($5 for 10′ @ Home Depot) I carpeted the stairs with Home Depot runner carpet.

She loves it and it is big enough for a table and chairs, bean bag, book shelf and baby doll high chair. As she gets older, she will be able to turn it into a hang out area. I went with black and white and then accented it with the round black and white rug from Ikea.

She loves it and I love all of the storage.

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Romantic lamps By: MissBoatie

After walking through Ikea in Copenhagen and Stockholm with my mother and still not finding the lamps for her I was kind of desperate…

So I came up with these, made out of flowerpots.

3 small Skurar

1 big Skurar

1 Hemma fixture

3 E14 Ledare bulbs

1 E27 Ledare bulb

The smaller fixtures I had to get from the hardware store.

Then I just had the hubby drill the correct size holes in the middle of each bottom, then flip it up side down and screw the fixtures in place sandwiching the flowerpot in between. I looks better this way i think then just threading the cord through and have it dangling.

The three smaller ones are joined in a little electrical box and the bigger one just hangs with the things supplied in the package.

My mum loves the lamps and the fit perfectly in her home. They cast a nice pattern on the walls to.

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Branäs Light-in-a-Box By: Remmie Smith

I used the Branäs basket to create an atmospheric light. Put the box sides upside down for cable management (the power cable goes through one of the handles/openings) and add the bottom with a cheap and simple light socket on it. I just taped the socket for a quick fix. On the inside I attached some tracing paper on the inside to create a more even glow.

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Voted yet? By: Jules IKEAHacker

The race is heating up for the HOTY!

At the moment, the Trofast Studio is in the lead with 25% of votes. The Expedit Bar is second with 19%. I know it’s a tough choice … but I want to hear from you! Vote now. Voting ends this Sunday (26th) midnight.

Over at Ideas, the Upside Down Lamp is getting votes right up side, with 238 persons giving it the nod so far. A little further back is the Magnetic curtain tie back with 200 votes. Which idea will clinch it? Vote now. Voting ends on Monday (27th) midnight.

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Expedit Rotating TV Hack By: Rachel

I wanted to divide a friend’s studio space using a large bookshelf. The Expedit was an ideal candidate except that I needed to figure out how she could watch TV in her bed as well as her living area with the TV mounted on the shelving unit. Originally I just cut out the necessary shelves to create the center area for the TV, and assembled as normal without the missing pieces.

However, when I reassembled the unit and stood it up, I realized that I needed to use L brackets on each of the corners I had cut for extra support. I used Melamine to cover the cut sections of shelf as well to give it a finished look. I purchased a TV stand that rotated 360 degrees and set up the TV and other components so that she could rotate it 180 degrees one way and 180 degrees back the other way so the cords would not get tangled. To give her bedroom a more private feel, I mounted stainless steel piping at the top of the Expedit and used conduit pipe as a curtain rod. When the project was complete, she got a cozy studio apartment with two separate living spaces.

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