Medal Hanger By: Lazaros Filippidis

Materials: BYGEL grey/silver rail, Ribba Picture Ledge, RIKTIG curtain hooks with clip

It doesn’t matter if you are a champion or an amateur athlete, if you have earned some medals it is great to put them on display. There are several readymade medal hangers but I preferred to make one on my own. I used two IKEA products for this. The first one was the black RIBBA picture ledge and the second the grey/silver BYGEL rail. I attached the rail on the underside of the picture ledge using four small screws (two on each side) and then I attached this assembly on the wall in the same manner as I would attach the picture ledge on its own. Both items have a width of 55cm so combining them in this way was very easy. The rail is used to hang the medals and the picture ledge is used to place small cups, memorabilia and photographs from the races. Furthermore, the RIKTIG curtain hook with clip can be used to hang the bibs from the rail too. Note that the hooks will need to be widened slightly to be able to be hanged on the rail.

via IKEA Hackers http://ift.tt/1x1THOw From Lazaros Filippidis

MALM glass plate and DIODER LED wall light By: Sebastian

Materials: BEHANDLA woodoil white, DIODER RGB LED, MALM glass plate white

LED wall lamps are quite expensive so I looked for a nice looking cheaper alternative. When walking though IKEA I saw the DIODER light strips and the idea of designing something myself was born.

The plan was to mount a white MALM glass plate on the wall and have the DIODER leds mounted between wall and plate to light up the glass plate. But how to mount the glass plate on the wall with enough space for the DIODER?

I’ve bought a wooden slat, cut it into two pieces and also cut a notch into it which was a little bit wider than the glass plate. In fact, the glass plate fitted nicely into the notch. After painting the slats whith BEHANDLA I mounted the bottom wood slat onto the wall, added the electric part and finalzed the lamp by mounting the top wooden slat.

I can turn the lamp on and off by a regular wall switch while for changing the colors I use the DIODER wheel.

Done.

via IKEA Hackers http://ift.tt/Z9HWrA From Sebastian

Contemporary wooden-top TV bench By: ucn

We moved into a new house, and for a whole year our TV sat on an old Expedit shelf (brought over from this previous hack). Well this was a terrible temporary solution as it was way too tall and just looked plain ugly, but I wanted to take my time designing the right TV console for that space. We definitely needed something custom, as the TV wall is really long, but I didn’t want to build in a tacky “feature wall” either. I wanted to keep the wall free for paintings and stuff in the future.

I was inspired by the many wooden-top tables with steel frames I’ve seen in design shops, and I realised that I could make one myself out of the Vittsjo series. Here’s how:

Materials:

3 x VITTSJO TV console (100x40cm x 33cm ht)

1 x NUMERAR counter top (246x60cm x3.8cm thick)

Step 1:

Assemble 3 VITTSJO consoles, but swop the position of the glass top and the laminate shelf

Step 2:

Cut the NUMERAR counter top into 6 pieces, each 50x40cm. I used a friend’s table saw, and a router to round off the edges. After cutting the 3 pieces I had very little waste left over.

Step 3:

Rearrange them in pairs to fit the top of the VITTSJO frame exactly, at 100x40cm

Step 4:

Position the laminate shelf in the centre of the birch top, with an even margin of birch panels all around. Screw through the laminate shelf to the birch panels. Need 4 screws per panel.

Step 5:

Just flip this birch top+laminate shelf assembly over, and place it back on top of the VITTSJO frame. The laminate shelf should fit back in perfectly, ‘locking’ the birch top in place. It also creates a lovely ‘floating gap’ between the VITTSJO frame and the birch top.

Step 6: Stain or varnish as desired. I like this as-is, but I might want to stain it a Teak colour to match my other furniture.

Step 7:

Wiring up the console: I managed to hide all the cables in the Kvissle cable management box, and with a couple of lengths of black cable management tubing. It turned out surprisingly well, after about an hour of cable wrangling. Look, no cables!

BONUS 1:

The shelf fits DVDs perfectly well upright, but then again it was originally designed as a TV console!

BONUS 2:

Since this is a 3-module console, and only the centre module is ‘wired up’, I am able to move the 2 side modules around as desired as extra bench seating when I have more people over. The frame has a slight sway to it, but with the birch top to distribute the load evenly, it definitely is strong enough to hold 2 people per bench.

via IKEA Hackers http://ift.tt/1mB88pn From ucn

Super compact shoe storage using GRUNDTAL By: Ulf Benjaminsson

Materials: GRUNDTAL rail, GRUNDTAL S-hook

GRUNDTAL is great for unloading your kitchen drawers by moving various bits-and-bobs to the walls. I have a freakishly small kitchen / entrance to my apartment, and needed shoe storage that didn’t eat up /any/ floor space.

GRUNDTAL rails and the larger S-hooks, let me hang my shoes so they extend less than ~7-10 cm from the wall!

(I only have 50cm available for this, so I went with the 40cm GRUNDTAL rail. You can obviously use any length you’d like)

via IKEA Hackers http://ift.tt/1AVr4Qt From Ulf Benjaminsson

Tallulah Rose Flower School By: Grace Bonney

If I could spend all of my time immersed in flowers, I’m pretty sure I would be the happiest girl around. From growing and cutting to arranging and delivering, almost every aspect of floral life makes me insanely happy. So this week I thought it would be fun to get a special, behind-the-scenes peek at a beautiful floral course happening overseas in England. After taking a flower course herself, Rachel Wardley opened the Tallulah Rose Flower School, which offers four-week courses and shorter, day-long courses for anyone interested in learning more about the art and business of floristry. Rachel gets to work alongside her adorable Dachshund, Lemmy, so at this point I’m 99% sure she’s living my dream life. Today she’s giving us a peek inside one of her recent courses and the wreaths, garland and arrangements they make are lush, colorful and full of life. Thanks so much to Rachel for sharing a glimpse of her course with us today! xo, grace

*Music in video: “Téki” by Lee Maddeford (with Les Gauchers Orchestra) from the FMA

Click through for more photos of the course after the jump!

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