Built-in-Ribba-lighting-Stave-mirror By: Daniel, Madrid

Materials: Ribba picture lighting, Stave Mirror

I do love large mirrors, moreover if I can afford them. So when ikea dropped the price of the Stave mirror I couldn’t resist buying one. Then, walking through the store, I saw the Ribba picture lighting on sale at 9.99€ and I though, would it fix on the mirror?

Well, of course not, but let’s give a try.

-The Stave frame it’s too big for the Ribba light gap (sigh)… But you could manage to put it at an angle that allows you to secure it with the drills that come with the light.

You can stop at this point if it is enough for you. However, I wanted a “built in” light on my mirror, so:

-Take off the switch at the top of the light (it is easily removable). Then join the wires of the leds to the wires of the power transformer (Attention: you must preserve the order of the wires, if not, the light won’t work)

-Perform a hole at the side of the frame to place a new switch. I bought one on banggood.com for 0.69€, and a month of shipment (second sigh).

-Now, there are two ways to end:

–First one is to install the switch after the power transformer, and then plug the transformer.

–Second one, which I chose, is to install the switch before the power transformer, so when the lights are off, this awful high-pitched whining sound that comes from the transformer, when it’s plugged, disappears. So, disassemble the plastic box of the power transformer and solder the correct wires to the transformer circuit (I can assure you, it is tremendously easy).

-Glue the wires through the interior side of the frame to have everything neat and clean.

-Perform another hole at the bottom frame of the mirror for the main wire, so when the mirror is hanged doesn’t disturb.

-Hang the mirror on the wall and plugged it or install it directly to your home electrical circuit.

And now you have your own built-in-Ribba-lighting-Stave-mirror!

via IKEA Hackers http://ift.tt/1l6s276 From Daniel, Madrid

Large Desk with Besta By: Daniel

My wife wanted a large desk for our office. After finding this site and others I decided to see what I could do with Ikea products. I used the 47″ Besta Frame and 25″ Besta Frame in black brown. Covered them with the Vassbo doors. Used four Linnmon 47″ table tops with legs.

I then used small metal strips to attach each table top to the adjoining one, and metal brackets to attach the table tops to the storage units for overall stability. I may anchor it to the wall, but I don’t think it’s necessary. The one issue I ran into is the height of the Besta units compared to the table tops and legs. There is a 2.25″ difference. So I made my own feet for the units. I went to my local home store and bought 1.75″ furniture feet (called bun feet). They have a screw already in them but I removed that. Then I bought some small half inch thick 4″ wide boards and cut them into small squares. Glued the squares to the feet; spray painted them black and nailed the square to the bottom of the Besta frame and with some margin for error in my carpeted room, it came out great. I was going to use the Linnmon corner table but it would not fit with my design, so I just went with the normal table tops.

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Fabian wall shelf becomes a custom shelving unit By: Daniel

After searching high and low for a shelving unit that would suit my needs, I decided on Ikea’s “Fabian” wall shelf. For $7.99 you get a solid pine shelf and brackets. I planned on utilizing these as bookshelves, and I wanted them to be more stable. I ended up going to a lumber store and found a beautiful piece of rift-cut oak (it has a clean, striped appearance). They were happy to cut it for me.

Since I was mounting it on the same wall as a mirror of approximately the same size I wanted for the shelf unit, I decided to use those exact dimensions. I then stained the pieces with minwax tintable stain (I had it mixed at a Sherwin Williams store). I used 3″ cabinet screws to mount the panel to the wall, directly into 2 studs (I used painters tape to mark the studs above the panel, and just measured for each screw , and it worked great.

For a clean look I placed the screws where the shelves would later go, so they would cover them up. The last step was mounting the shelves using 1″ wood screws. This whole project cost about $80, but I think the final product looks very polished and unique.

via IKEA Hackers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ikeahacker/~3/jt41wHG32bA/fabian-wall-shelf-becomes-a-custom-shelving-unit.html From Daniel