Bamboo Dragan Box meets Raspberry PI! Sounds good! By: Peter

Materials: Dragan Bamboo Box

I was looking for something for my bathroom to play music when I have my shower. One item I have in the bathroom is the DRAGAN Bamboo Box from IKEA. When I was hacking my Raspberry Pi I got that idea!

Take the Dragan box, a Raspberry, an Speaker and some other electronic stuff and some more wood. That are the things I needed. I soldered the electronic components, sawed the wood to build the inlay for the Music Box and finally I was programming the Raspberry PI to receive music from my iPhone….

The result you can see on the images.

See more details and the configuration of the Raspberry Pi.

Other Raspberry Pi hacks:

• Digital Pi-cture frame


• An arcade from a Forsiktig stool

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Built-in Home Office Using Perfekt Rockhammar Kitchen Cabinets By: Alex

I wanted a home office that looks like it was builtin but not built from the more simple lines of most of the Ikea desks. So I decided to build this using kitchen cabinets.

Purchase the following components from Ikea:

- Perfekt Rockhammar 15″ base cabinet x 2

- Perfekt Rockhammar 24″ base cabinet x 1

- Toe Kick

- Perfekt Rockhammar side panels x 4

Cut the base cabinets to 24″ to remove the top drawer and assemble the base cabinets.

Purchase two 3/4″x72″x24″ pine wood panels and five drawer pulls from Home Depot.

Paint the panels to match the color of Perfekt Rockhammar.

Cut the panels to fit the room.

Install the cabinets and pine panels as the desktop.

By doing this, I get a custom built office for two people. The final height is about 29″ (4″ toekick + 24″ cabinet + 1″ table top), which is pretty good height for an office. The entire office looks like a builtin. The middle cabinet has a pull-out to store printer. While the cabinets have lower drawers that can be used for filing.

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IKEA Closet Doors into Workstation with Monitor Hutch By: Mike

Materials: 1 Linnmon tabletop, 4 Besta Tofta doors, 5 adjustable table legs, 8 Capita 4″ legs

1. I started off by cutting the 3 of the 4 Besta Tofta doors long ways down the middle using a circular saw with a melamine blade. This created 6 strips, each 10″ wide by 75.5″ long.

2. took the 1 door I didn’t cut fastened it to the Linnmon table top using PL and screws. This created the desks work area. I added 4 adjustable table legs also from Ikea to each corner. There was an issue with the desk bowing in the center after it was upright so I decided to add another leg in the center. I set it far enough to the back that it was not noticeable when you sat down.

3. I used one of the strips of from the doors I cut for the shelf where I would place my monitors. I used 8 capita 4″ stainless steel legs to give me the desired height. I then glued a strip of PVC molding I got from home depot to the front of the shelf so it better matched the desk portion. After that I added an LED light strip underneath. The LEDs were purchased from Amazon.

4. I then used the remaining strips of closet doors to build the hutch or monitor housing. It is completely separate from the desk. After it was built I fastened it to the desk with a few screws.

5. I then used a sheet of 1/8″ melamine coated fiberboard from home depot for the hutch’s back panel. Once it was tacked on the whole thing became rigid.

That’s pretty much it.

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Hackers Help: Hinges on PAX Sliding Doors? By: Alla

Photo: IKEA.com

Materials: Pax Sliding Door Wardrobe Frame and Doors

Hi all!

I have a space that will fit half a PAX sliding door wardrobe. Every 59 inch wide PAX sliding door wardrobe come with 2 29 inch boxes that combined make a 59 inch one. This setup holds the 2 sliding doors.

According to my space, I want to take just one of those 29 inch boxes and use just one of the two sliding doors. This would require making the doors hinged.

Is this in any way possible?

If so, is it only possible on the particle board doors or can it somehow be managed with the glass options (SEKKEN/AULI) as well?

Any help is ever so greatly appreciated!!!

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Turning Besta shelf unit into a contemporary modern nightstand By: Gabriel Nogueira

Materials: BESTA shelf unit

I had 2 BESTA shelf units with no use since I moved from a smaller house. So, I decided to add 4 hairpin legs and a 3-foot led strip to turn these units into lightning nightstands. Is easy as 123.

Bought 8 hairping legs on eBay for $96 and 2 led light strips for $10, also from eBay. Then I screwed the legs using M8-1.25 x 20 screws to attach it to the shelf unit.

To finalize, I placed the led strip on the bottom of the shelf unit and that’s it. Two contemporary modern lighting nightstand for less than $150 each!

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Genevieve Gorder on After the Jump By: Grace Bonney

I’ve had a stressful couple of weeks lately and I was looking forward to this week’s radio show for a huge boost of happiness. And thankfully, it did not disappoint. This week I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with designer Genevieve Gorder to talk about some of her latest projects. I don’t know how she has time to do everything – between her personal clients and being a working mom – but Genevieve recently bought and renovated her neighboring apartment (to create one cohesive home to share with her daughter), documented the process for a television show, launched a digital magazine and is working on yet another TV special launching this fall. When I say that she gets things done, I mean she really gets things done. So I am incredibly appreciative that she took time to come out to Bushwick, Brooklyn with me and talk about all things design.

Genevieve is one of the happiest people I’ve ever met and her love of design is utterly infectious. She infuses everything she does with character, a personal story and meaning – elements that you cannot buy or have made by someone else. She quite simply has a knack for figuring out what makes someone feel at home and how to bring that to life. In today’s show we talk about how her own style has evolved, what she learned from a truly difficult renovation process (like how quickly budgets go overboard!) and how she’s staying inspired by the digital design world online right now. If you have 30 minutes to sit and be inspired, please check out this show. It’s hard to listen to Genevieve and not walk away feeling lighter, happier and motivated to make the world a more beautiful place. Thanks so much to Gen and Melissa for joining me today! xo, grace

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DIY: How to Build an Indoor Sandbox For Less Than $52 By: Barbara Miller

Materials:

• 1 LACK coffee table


• 1 KOMPLEMENT drawer, or look for another drawer in the As-is department and match it to a table size


• Loctite Power Grab


• Art materials of your choice. I used Kinetic Sand but rice, beans or dried noodles could be a less expensive alternative

• Paint any unfinished edges on your drawer — often the part that faces the back is not completely finished. I used black and it blended right in


• Put together the LACK coffee table following the IKEA instructions


• Make small piles of adhesive around the top of the coffee table. They need some height because the bottom of the drawer is recessed slightly and a flat bead of adhesive will not reach the bottom of the drawer


• Put any art materials you like in the top tray and have fun!


• I recommend using a container or a tray so you can easily remove the sand and toys when you can control their use

Link to the full tutorial.

Link to the video.

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