New Kitchen Island made of slats By: Madam Rosmerta

Materials: 2 x Sultan LADE, Numerär worktop

I’m really proud of myself because I did this hack with only a little bit of help from my husband.

The first picture shows a part of my kitchen before my hack . I was sure that a new kitchen cabinet had to be there instead of the old racks and the curtain. So I took a Sultan LADE slatted frame and after removing the ribbon I painted the slats in white and red colour (red for the frame and white for the boards). I was very lucky because the slats with 70 cm fitted perfectly and I only have to cut 6 slats (my husband did it for me). When the colour was dry I built my new kitchen cabinet with many screws. Now I still needed a worktop and I remembered that we storaged the piece which we cut-out for the cooker. At that time we bought a Numerär worktop and luckily it fitted perfectly after my husband cut the edges a bit (I sanded it afterwards and used Behandla oil).

The drawers are made from the rest of the LADE pieces which were cut for the shelves before, the bottoms are from old Billy backs. I love the vintage style and so I made it on the drawer fronts (they are not from Ikea, I took 2 pieces of wood which we kept from another project, just as the handles). In the end I fixed 4 castors so I can pull it out from both sides very easily.

Now I still need pretty boxes for the storage of my food processor items and every ideas from you are appreciated!

via IKEA Hackers http://ift.tt/1tmDxxe From Madam Rosmerta

Rustic Elegance in Savannah By: Amy Azzarito

Every year, Kelsey Garrity-Riley and Erik Riley host a huge Easter brunch in their Savannah home for all their friends. Everyone brings a little something over to eat, and they relax and sip summery mixed drinks. After dinner, they walk – with drinks in hand (legal in the Savannah Historic District) – the few blocks from their house to Forsyth Park and enjoy the spring weather in the park. Their annual Easter party is a great reflection of how they live year-round – nothing in their home is too precious – everything is well-loved and worn-in, and they are all about nature. The couple met at Savannah’s College of Art and Design. (They had to put sketches from their first assignment up on the board and Erik saw Kelsey’s. Later that night called his mom and said he knew he was going to marry her. It took another month until they actually spoke, but now they’ve been married for four years.) When they’re not hosting fabulous potlucks, both Kelsey and Erik split their time between working at the amazing Savannah store The Paris Market (Erik writes and takes photographs for their blog every day) in downtown Savannah and doing freelance illustration work. They’re now gearing up for their next adventure: a move to New York City. We can’t wait to see what they do to a NYC apartment. -Amy

Image above: “The large rug I found while antiquing for the store – and since vintage rugs are one of the few things we don’t carry, thankfully it wasn’t a conflict of interest,” Kelsey says. “I found the top plank of my desk in an alley, I think it must have been a makeshift workman’s surface. I dragged it home, cleaned it off, sanded it a bit and added old hairpin legs a friend was kind enough to give me. It’s a great size, but I end up covering it in papers and working on the floor instead.”

Image above: “I like to change around the display on our studio fireplace. The helmets were gifted to me by a Frenchman in one of my favorite thrift stores back home. There was a whole ball of them tangled together. We were one short of having three neat rows, so we drew out one more to fill in the grid. The block lamps with Edison bulbs are created by my brother, Collin Garrity, and sold through The Paris Market.”

See more of this Savannah apartment after the jump!

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Under eaves storage TARVA hack By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: 2 x TARVA chest of 5 drawers

OK so I needed some clothes storage in my new attic room but I didn’t want a wardrobe at an odd angle following the roof line and also I didn’t want to lose any valuable floor area. I thought I would build two chest of drawers underneath the purlin and run a clothes rail between after seeing similar on here and Pinterest.

The main issue was the purlin was reasonably low so I knocked the stud wall down and brought the two hacked TARVA’s forward 25cm from the purlin, this is half the width of your average clothes hanger (due to the purlin being the lowest point to hang the rail). I only had 94cm height for the drawers so I cut down the TARVA by sawing off 11.7cm off the top to remove the smaller fifth drawer and screwed it back together.

I then fitted the chest of drawers underneath the purlin, measured each of the 4 corners and cut the drawers legs exactly so they were wedged in position tight and along with the serious screws through the TARVA top into the purlin, they are never going anywhere!

I then had another idea, I had intended installing a plasterboard surround at the top to create a more fitted look but it was going to be dead space so I ran some pine furniture board across the top for a book case/ storage area, made a pine surround for the wardrobe section, bolted the clothes rail to the purlin and make some doors out of more furniture board (all cut by Arnold Laver for free). Used Ronseal interior wax Rustic pine – its more like stain but did the job.

3 + 4: Tarva x 2 = £180 + £150 of Pine Furniture board

~ Timo

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