Geometric Bins By: Kate Rohrer

Having just moved in our new house we were looking for an inexpensive way to store A LOT of clothes in our Master Bedroom…and quickly. With big dreams and a little budget, we decided to re-use the EXPEDIT Shelving units I’m pretty sure I’ve now had in every apartment since college. I was down for that, but they desperately needed a change. Or should I say, I did.

I looked for interesting storage bins high and low, but nothing was falling into the budget. So, I resorted back to IKEA and decided I could get clever with their DRONA boxes.

With some leftover Interior House Paint (Benjamin Moore – White Dove), a roll of painters tape, a brush and a drop cloth I got to work. I aligned the tape from opposing top to bottom corners and then painted one triangle. The white vs. the contrasting black required 2-3 coats on each. But, they dried super quick.

Each bin started to look pretty cool, but overall the pattern impact of 16 lined up nice and tidy adds so much pattern and interest to our room.

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Kids 3-drawer desk/craft table By: Crystal

1. Assemble the chest as directed, but wait to tack on the back and insert drawers. Paint if desired.

2. Decide which side you want the drawers to be on, and affix the 2 ADILS table legs to the opposite side of the Linnmon table top using the pre-drilled holes.

The Linnmon table top is just shy of fitting on to the top of the chest. Ideally you might want to cut a piece of thin plywood to fit in on the top of the chest to make the surface level. I however was building this for my 4 year old who has a propensity for destruction. I figured I would be replacing the table top again in a couple of years, and would make that fix at that time. So instead I drilled a few holes through the top of the chest and placed a few washers there to keep it level.

3. CAREFULLY attach the table top with screws going from the inside of the chest up into the table top. Go slow and make sure your screws aren’t too long (oops!) I have a small dent on the top of mine, but luckily it didn’t go all the way through.

4. If you want, customize the front of the drawers before inserting. I took fabric of my sons favorite characters (Star Wars) and cut it using the drawer front as a template to fit. I then spread a thin layer of mod podge for fabric to the wood and carefully laid down the fabric, smoothing as I went to prevent wrinkles, and then applied mod podge again to the top and allowed to dry. Once dry I used a sharp metal pick to poke holes through the fabric where the drawer pulls would go so that the screws wouldn’t loosen the fabric.

And done! Took about 1 afternoon with a 4 year old and a 1 year old constantly wanting to “help”

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Tetris@office By: Pedro

I wanted a not-so-serious library with some space to hide my stuff and at the same time, to showcase other items. I had enough space in front of it to have a big picture. In other way, it can be a little bit “massive”.

I work teaching computer courses and it could be allegorical of it.

Superposing Expedit modules created an array of cubes that is possible to color by using doors, drawers, boxes and any other stuff. Tetris schema is exactly what I was looking for.

It could be the easiest hack of an Ikea furniture. Only imagination to sort the different modules and an idea to show. No modifications of any module.

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Entertainment Center Dubs as Children’s Play Center By: Steve Bonesz

I created this cabinet debauchery by mounting a small upper Besta cabinet (meant to be a lower cabinet with legs) to my wall and affixing caster wheels to two free rolling “hinged” Expedit cabinets (meant to be tall vertical shelving units) below. By leaving the backs of the cabinets open, I was able to give the kids access to toys, that could quickly be stuffed away when returning the room to normal.

For the lower cabinets, I started by screwing four large Rill casters to the sides of each unit, which would become the bottom, of the two Expedit units. I added a set of hinges, that I spray painted black, to the ends so they could be open as one long unit, or be hinged closed to form a wider, but shorter play unit. Underneath I screwed in a window sash latch to keep the units together when set up for the kids (I didn’t want any small fingers getting pinched).

When I put on the optional doors I did a little modifying. I wanted to recess the doors by 1 inch, so that the knobs wouldn’t stick out, preventing me from folding the two units together. I also wanted to remove the “backs” of the door boxes so that I would have open cubbies from the back sides, which would become the front sides once the units were folded together. I cut off the back of the door boxes an inch from the sides with a straight edge and several passes with a matte knife, then screwed them on, inset one inch.

Mounting the Besta unit to the wall was the most challenging part of the installation. Although the Besta comes with steel brackets made for securing it to a wall, it wasn’t meant to support it, hanging cantilevered off the ground and supporting a 52″ TV, DVD player and two heavy lamps. So I threw out the small mounting screws and purchased 4 heavy-duty “toggle bolts” from my hardware store and attached the unit about 1/2″ above the rolling base units. I bolted it tightly along the top inside edge. The finished look gives the impression that the upper unit is resting on top of the base units. But, when the play center is rolled out, the toggle bolts perform admirably supporting the piece with a gravity defying illusion.

Just for fun, I added an unbreakable Fillsta lamp and the play center was complete! My kids love it and it stores easily into one of the cubbies.

My next weekend project is to find storage baskets to fit the inside of the cubbies. The nicest part is that the cabinet doors actually open, so we can reach anything on the inside the cabinets from the front, when it is acting as an entertainment center. One day, when we don’t have toys to deal with, we can use it for more grown-up storage.

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Pimed DUKTiG children mini-kitchen By: Thomas

For my daughter I pimped the IKEA DUKTIG children kitchen. Now the water-tap has a light and sound effect. Also the microwave and oven are equipped with a LEDs and sound effects.

A Raspberry Pi controls the kitchen. The whole electronic is mounted on bottom of the kitchen, e.g. power supply, loud speaker.

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Hacking a Pax wardrobe to fit a tight spot By: Samantha Kennedy

I don’t have a great history of buying the correct sized IKEA wardrobes. In our last flat I bought them too tall. This time too wide.

The alcove on the left of our bedroom is frustratingly not the same size as the space on the right by about 10 centimetres. Rough measures which didn’t take into account the unevenness of the walls (still getting used to an old building) led to us finding out that the gap on the left was about two centimetres too narrow for the 100 centimetre wide wardrobe.

We only realised this once we had all the packaging opened and pieces ready to assemble in the room. I know, I should have learnt my lesson last time.

But having spent a lot of time browsing IKEA Hackers we weren’t going to be beaten by a measly two centimetres!

After a lot of manoeuvring, removing a Victorian skirting board and many re-measuring attempts we stumbled on a solution. By placing the sides of the wardrobe on top of the base instead of either side of it we saved the two centimetres. We did the same at the top, placing the top on top of the sides rather than between them.

This just left the issue of the doors – 50 centimetres wide each.

This is the part of our solution I’m most proud of. Look back at the before/ after pic – doors look normal right? Two 50 centimetre doors with metal handles? Wrong. Here’s the inside of the doors on our hacked wardrobe…

More info available on my blog.

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Ribba K-Cup Hanger By: Kitty

I recently bought the Keurig coffee maker, I love to display the K-Cups variety that I have, but because of the lack of counter space, I have to hack my own K-Cup holder. And the Ikea Ribba frame seems to fit the “depth” of a K-Cup.

So here is what I did:

1.Dissembled the Ribba Frame

2. Use the Glass to measure the “square” on a thick carton paper.

3. Cut holes as many as you want as long as it fit in the square and leaving enough room between the holes for support – I manage to do 16 holes, and of course you can cut less and make it an interesting pattern.

4. The other component that you will need from the Ribba frame is only the wooden square that holds the carton paper in place. All other component, you can use it somewhere else or throw it away. (The frame doesn’t have a closed back. Because it will be too thick to fit a k-cup otherwise)

5. Attach/fasten a hook on the Ribba Frame.

6. Fasten everything and you are done, now hang on the wall and enjoy.

Get Keurig coffee maker here

Get K-Cups here

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