Ultra Simple Wardrobe with New* NORDLI + 2x MALM By: chonchonchon

Materials: NORDLI 6 drawer dresser, MALM dressing table x 2

How to?

Photo: IKEA.com

Photo: IKEA.com

- Assemble the Nordli chest as per IKEA’s assembly instructions.

- For the first Malm dressing table (to be stacked on top), assemble everything but the glass

- For the second Malm dressing table (at the bottom, inverted), assemble everything except the drawer and glass.

- Add a bar to the underside of the first Malm.

WARNING > Between top and inverted MALM, there are 4 holes. Put in 4x stick of wood to attach the 2x Malm together.

(The above was translated by Google. Here’s the original submission in French)

Montage?

- Meuble nordli comme sur la notice.

- Mount Nordli like ikea paper

- 1ère coiffeuse Malm (haut), montez tout sauf la vitre

- 1st Malm, mount all exempt the glass

- 2ème coiffeuse Malm (bas en inversée), montez tout sauf le tiroir et la vitre.

- 2nd Malm, mount all exept galss and box.

- Ajouter une barre pour la penderie.

- Add Bar

ATTENTION > Sous les pieds de la coiffeuses, il y a 4 trous, insérer les colonnettes en bois (4x) pour solidariser les 2 coiffeuses ensemble.

Happy hacking!

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Buckwheat Porridge with Poached Pears (Video) By: Grace Bonney

When I was 14 I spent most of my time in my room playing Hole songs on my guitar and wishing I lived in Seattle. My life outside of school consisted primarily of sulking and the occasional field hockey game, so when Amy first introduced me to Izzy Rael, the incredibly talented blogger behind Common Comfort, I was blown away. Izzy lives in New York city with her family and when she’s not busy with the ups and downs of 9th grade, she’s running a truly beautiful website about delicious and healthy food. Kristina and I were so thrilled when she accepted our plea to feature one of her recipes and were even more excited to find out she was going to create an original video just for the column.

Inspired by the changing temperatures and fall flavors, Izzy came up with a recipe for Buckwheat Porridge topped with star anise-poached pear and thickened coconut milk. It’s a warm, filling, healthy (and tasty) way to start off any fall morning. And the fact that Izzy made this in between her first few weeks of school is even more impressive. I simply cannot wait to see where this talented writer and cook goes- she’s got an incredibly bright future ahead of her. Click here to check out more of Izzy’s blog, Common Comfort. xo, grace

*Special thanks to Izzy’s assistant, and future hand model, Lily Mayo. Music featured in the video is ‘Sail’ by Noosa.

About Izzy: Izzy Rael lives in New York City with her parents, and her younger brother. In her spare time, she writes for her food and design blog, Common Comfort. Izzy is a 14-year-old, graphic-obsessed girl that loves to jam on tunes on her trombone. In the future, she hopes to be a programmer and mathematician, continuing to follow her love for blogging, music and art. Izzy is also releasing a new coffee table book with VSCO later this year on recipes, outings in New York, and all things creative (keep your eyes peeled)!

Click through for the full recipe after the jump!

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Trivet turned porteaur rack for bike By: Johan Larsson

Materials: Lämplig Trivet

I wanted to make a French style porteur rack for my bike, and used tubing from IKEA trivets to fabricate one. Interestingly enough you can’t buy any tubing like this over-the-counter – I’ve search high and low, but there just isn’t any kind of thin-walled small diameter stainless tubing manufactured other than on special order.

It wasn’t easy, let me say that first. The tubing was very uneven in wall thickness and had to be selected carefully after the trivet had been cut into pieces. As for the fabrication I used a a hack saw, files, a pipe bender and an oxygen-actylene torch for silver brazing. Since the tubes in the trivet are shorter than desired, they had to be joined, with small lugs made out of scrap bits of the tubing.

If you are very observant, you’ll notice that the rack in the first picture (above) doesn’t quite match the one in the next pictures – that is because after the rack first was made, I switched the fork on the bike and had to redo the mounts and struts on the rack. The later pictures are from when I did that.

The last pictures with the whole bike shows the rack being tested to the extreme – that’s a bunch of weight lifting weights on there, weighing in total 56 kg/120 pounds. The strap that I used trying to take some weight off the rack with, by distributing the load to the stem also, soon slackened, and all weight was supported by the rack alone for tens of kilometers on bumpy roads. Not bad for a rack that weighs just 340 g/12 oz!

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Creating a retro modern office By: chipie1118

Here’s what I did:

Covered plywood sheet with batting and SOFIA fabric to make window bench seat with stenciled MERETE curtains

PRÖJS desk pad over stenciled poster board secured with spray glue

Spray painted LERBERG trestle table legs with LINNMON table top

Expedit tall and short combined with KASSETT magazine files and boxes. Covered corkboard with TRÅDKLÖVER fabric and silver thumb tack, SPONTAN white board, KVISSLE magazine rack

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After the Jump: Dealing with Negativity Online By: Grace Bonney

In the creative community, and in pretty much every other community, every new project these days seems to have an online component. Whether you’re launching a new web shop or putting a new book out into the world, you’re going to need to announce, promote or communicate through the digital channels we all know and love, from Instagram and Pinterest to online magazines, newspapers and even podcasts.

One of the topics I used to discuss the most with people in the creative community was promotion, but these days it’s more about handling the responses that come from promotion. In an ideal world, those responses would be nothing but virtual high fives, cheers and pats on the back. But in the real world, they’re mixed. No matter who you are and where you live, if you have the courage to put something out there, people are going to disagree, and have an opinion about it.

And here’s the thing – your voice and your project deserve to be a part of the chorus of voices that exist online. Letting your voice be silenced by a few bad apples is a sad thing, and something that can and should be prevented. So for today’s show I’m tackling a topic that can be somewhat scary: How to handle negativity online. From finding compassion and empathy for negative commenters to my trusted system for dealing with negative comments, this show is for anyone who’s ever struggled with how to handle all the “haters” that live online. Whether you’re new to negativity online or a seasoned pro, there’s something in here for all of us. Thanks so much to everyone for listening and feel free to leave your requests for this season’s shows in the comment section below! xo, grace

*When it doubt, just shake it off like Taylor.

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