Lack Lego Playtable with undertable storage By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: Lack Coffee table Size 118×78 cm

My two sons love to play with Lego, but the bricks always end up all over to floor and it becomes very difficult to locate the smaller pieces when building new stuff.

So it turns out that the large Lack coffee table is perfect for a Lego play table, it is easy to fit 9 road plates and 2 large base plates with double-sided tape.

Underneath I mounted 2 storage cabinets for all the smaller Lego pieces, the shelf requires a bit of cutting for the cabinets to fit properly.

But there is still room for the shelf to hold several transparent plastic storage bins for the larger Lego parts.

~ Søren

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5 Wine Bottle DIYs By: Amy Azzarito

I don’t know about you, but I always feel a little twinge of guilt when a wine bottle ends up in the recycling bin. It just seems like I should be finding a way to reuse such a functional object. And now that’s we’re fully into rosé season, I have a few more bottles than usual. Here are some of my favorite projects that use wine bottles as the core material. A few of these projects suggest a wine bottle cutting kit like this one (see Make’s How-to Video here) and if you decide to invest, you can turn all your bottles into something new for your home. Now, that my guilt is assuaged, I’ll take another glass of rosé! -Amy

Image above: Turn your wine bottles into spectacular outdoor lighting. See our Wine Bottle Torch project here.

Image above: Bring the same technique for the wine bottle torch inside for a easy wall vase. See the full project details here.

Image above: All you need is a glass cutting kit to turn your wine bottles into candle holders. See the full project instructions here. (And you can use the other half for a vase like this!)

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Ramvik coffee table into watercooled computer By: T.F.S.

This is my Ramvik coffee table that I turned into a computer.

It cost £30 second hand so was cheaper than the wood to build it and saved me a bit of work.

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A Day In The Life of Chelsea Fuss By: Grace Bonney

One of the most difficult things to do as a business owner or creative is give yourself some time off to be inspired. We all know it’s important, but actually penciling in those days to unplug and get away can be a challenge. So one of my goals with our “Day In The Life” column was to show a wide range of business owners and makers in a wide range of phases of their life and businesses. One of my favorite things to see are business owners who’ve found a way to combine an inspiration trip with work and today’s subject has done just that. Portland-based floral designer, blogger and stylist, Chelsea Fuss, knew she wanted to spend some time outside of Oregon this year, so she decided to spend her summer working on a farm in France where she’s not only learning and helping out the farm host, but getting to find inspiration in the beautiful land around her. She’s swapped her normal day-to-day schedule for a new schedule that involves tending to animals, weeding gardens and cooking meals with products made by local farms. It sounds like heaven, but it’s work, too- and valuable inspiration. Not only with Chelsea get a wide range of skills to bring home from Brittany, but she’ll also go back with a summer’s worth of inspiration from a place so different than her Oregon home base. I’m so excited to see what her summer “Day In The Life” is like and I hope you’ll find her work trip as inspiring as I did. This got me thinking about all sorts of projects I could try next year to get me out into nature but not totally leave work and learning behind. Thanks so much for sharing your day with us, Chelsea.

Photo above by Leela Cyd

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