Quick and Easy Jewelry Stand By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: ÅRYD Tealight holder, HULTET Dish bamboo, metal decorative plate

Description: You can pick up any plate or candle holders you want. Mix and match the colors – have it fit your current decor! I picked up this metal lace plate because the holes are perfect (and strong enough) for earrings.

1) Layer glue on the bottom side of the candlestick holder. Press gently but firmly onto the center of the bottom plate.

2) Layer glue on the top side of the candlestick holder. Press center of top plate onto candlestick holder. Let rest for 8 hours or more. (Or, if you’€™re impatient, just start throwing stuff on! Just don’€™t lift it by the top plate).

3) Start throwing your bling on!

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~ Betty, Boston

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Antonius kitty window seat By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: Antonius wire basket

Description: My kitty needed some fresh air; and so did we. Problem was, our ghetto-ass apartment has no screen in half the windows. See, our kitty Po Boy likes to escape when he gets the chance. Jump on the roof of the neighbor’s car and spend a fine evening courting the ladies. Well that just ain’t how a civilized kitty ought to behave, so we looked around the apartment for a good solution. We had too many of these Antonius baskets kickin’ around anyway; add a tea towel and you’ve got a perfect window seat for old don gato. I’d say this compromise is a win-win.

~ jen chapman, United States

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Field of Flowers Crochet Poäng Chair By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: Poäng Chair and Footstool, Korndal Beige Cushions

Description: I love my Poäng, but I had nowhere to put it after moving to my new house. I also needed a comfortable new office chair for work and the Poäng fit the bill. I like having a place to sit back when the stress level is high, and I can type while sitting near the end of the chair. I decided to make a new chair cover because the cushions were stained after several years of use.

Unfortunately, I can’t sew well enough to make it look professional (I did manage to make new covers for my Börje dining room chairs, but that only required scissors and a staple gun). I also couldn’t find any fabric I liked for the job. But I can crochet…

I found a free flower pattern on Pinterest and started making motifs using a G hook and all of the blue and purple yarn in my stash. After making a rectangle about the size of the front of the cushion, I crocheted a stretchy back V stitch (double crochet, chain 1, double crochet, repeat) for enough rows to just barely stretch across the back. Then I joined the top and bottom (slip stitch, chain 1, slip stitch in other side). I stretched the edges and joined them in a similar fashion.

After working in all of the ends, it looks great! It’s not easily removable, but it cleans easily with fabric cleaners. And it only cost about $10 because I needed to buy new yarn for the back.

I really like the V stitch on the back and I think the entire cushion would look good covered with that as well. It shapes around the cushion very easily. Stripes would be very easy to do that way. Granny squares might also work, but I don’t think they would stretch as well.

~ Heather, Wisconsin, USA

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MOD-ify the Basisk Pendant Light By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: Basisk Pendant Light, Wire-caged Basket, Spray Paint

Description: I needed a light for my workspace. I wanted to find a really awesome Pendant Light. I poked around online and found some that were amazing, but a little too expensive for me to handle. I had a very basic $17.00 IKEA pendant light left over from my kitchen update. $17-40.00 was more like my budget, but, it was so small and lacked any funk at all. Plus it looked like it belonged in a kitchen.

I was hoping to snag an inexpensive, awesome, retro light from our favorite second hand building supply stores, Second Use Building Materials or RE Store.We all kept our eyes open over several days, weeks, months. Nothing seemed to show up. We looked at the itty-bitty IKEA kitchen light again and that day Heidi mentioned that she had just bought a wire basket on sale at Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft that was a similar shape. What if we flipped it upside down?

We pried off the bottom seal of the cage and slipped the lamp mounting through the opening – shockingly – it fit.

Exciting. It worked and I loved it…mostly. The original green color of the basket clashed with the rest of the space and in particular with the lime green wall.

So we decided to spray paint it a hammered steel color. Yep, that color exists.

The hammered steel color worked better with the whole palette of the space. Those blue pieces of tape on the wall marked the pendant light height we were aiming for. I don’t want to hear a word about leaving that tape in the image Heidi. That goes for you too, Monica. Zip it!

Next Step: How to hang this wonderful $29.00 pendant light? The IKEA light did come with a cheap looking little-thingy-madoo to attach it to a ceiling. We had other projects going so we decided to keep our eyes open for something else. A thing of some sort. A way to hang it that had an industrial feel in some way. While digging through baskets full of reclaimed hardware during one of our many trips to Second Use Building Materials, we spotted a ceramic insulated….thing… with a galvanized screw end. During that same trip, Heidi spotted another piece that she was sure we could use to hold the cord to the wall in some way. I trust her, so I decided to spend $1.00 on this experiment. We bought the two pieces for $6.00.

Using a stud finder tool we were able to locate a ceiling joist and it somehow was exactly where we wanted it. We seem to be lucky that way. We screwed the $5.00 ceramic insulator into the ceiling joist, first hot-gluing 2 large galvanized washers to the ceiling to create a finished look. The wall hardware experiment does a spectacular job of holding the new pendant light from landing on my head while I type out this post. It was worth the dollar.

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~ Hammer Like A Girl, Seattle

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Futon to Kid’s Chair By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: Grankulla futon

Description: My boss showed me a picture of her sons new playhouse and when I got home… I was determined to build something! I destroyed the futon until I was ready to get started. I don’t own a drill or power saw. So everything was done by screwdriver, file and hack saw. This chair was what I came up with and when I gave it to her at work she cried.

~ Derek

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IKEA Kajuta – remove the lamp cables By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: IKEA Kajuta & Wirefreelight

Description: Lamp cables always disturb the overall look.

It gets much improved if the cables could be removed in some way.

IKEA Kajuta is simple to modify:

A) Snap out the lamp holder and cable.

B) Place the Kajuta over a wireless LED light.

The wireless LED lights get the power from a wall adaptor going to a “magic” power plate hidden under the table with adhesive putty. One plate shall be placed under each lamp. The lamps have no batteries. They get all their power from the “magic” plates under them.

It took me just some minutes to stick up the plates under the table, plug in them to a box and Ta-da, turn on the lamps, now free of visible cables!

The light is not as strong as with a high power light bulb, but is perfect for a good looking mood light.

I bought them at AC Gears.

~ Mike

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Light Bar Design By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: Lack Shelf, Ullrik black, Dioder, Plexiglas plate, drill, bracket, screws, anti slip

Description: 1. Mount Lack Shelf (height : 70cm) & Ullrik table leg

2. Place two brackets on the wall by drilling (height : 70cm)

3. Place four anti slip patches on Ullrick table leg and on the brackets

4. Put the Lack Shelf on Ullrik and brackets

5. Place anti slip patches on the shelfes

6. Place the plexiglas plate (190x30x1cm) on the Lack Shelf

7. Fix The dioder lights between the wall and the plexiglas plate.

IT IS ON !

~ Tristan PHILIPPE, France

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RANSBY iPad Charging Rack By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: Ransby plate rack

Description: This is hardly a hack, just putting an item to different use.

We bought a couple of these years ago and never really used them. In the meantime the whole family became iPad owners, and most evenings they would be spread across the kitchen worktop charging overnight.

Having a clear out and I had the idea of using the Ransby to stand the iPads in while they charge, and voila, one slightly tidier overnight charging solution.

~ Kevin Evans, Derby, UK

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