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Materials: Leather Karlstad sofa & ottoman, round full taper furniture legs Description: Really simple hack. I love the mid century modern style sofas, but I wanted to buy new. There are a few good options out there but they are really expensive! Click to read the rest of the post > >

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Mid century leather karlstad sofa & ottoman

Materials: Effectiv, Abstrakt, Capita Description: In this hack, I take an EFFECTIV Add-on (high), original price $80, purchased in the As-Is department for $45, a set of CAPITA angled brackets ($14.99), ABSTRAKT kitchen door piece, regular $74, also purchased in the As-Is department for $1.99. The first thing I had to do was take some isopropyl alcohol and remove the “As-Is” and item number written on the back side of the cabinet (which will be the front part of the bar). The As-Is department apparently now requires that the words AS-IS and the item # be marked in a prominent place on the furniture, which I find ridiculous, because it potentially ruins the piece.

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Cheap, (Almost) Instant bar!

Materials: Ikea Dave, 1/4″ wood insert, furniture tabs, Induru tripod, Manfrotto Joystick Tripod Mount Description: I immediately enjoyed the use of Dave once assembled. However, after some use I discovered it was not as stable as I would have liked. Meaning, it was not meant for leaning or piling extra accessories on. Then, my kids had their fun with it and put it to its test. I thought it would be ok for my son to use as a Lego platform for a day

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Dave’s Low/High Rider (laptop table hack)

Materials: Vika Veine, Vika Lage, Sandby, low voltage downlights, mirror, plastic trays, Velcro strips Description: I really wanted a dressing table for all my girly things…but all the ones in the stores were very old fashioned! Recently married, all our furniture is pretty new and in a modern chocolate brown, so I wanted something to suit. Finally, after much Googling…I came up with this design. Click to read the rest of the post > >

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Modern Hideaway Dressing Table

Materials: BEKVAM kitchen trolley, wood boards Description: We needed a small changing table for our newborn. Since both of us are students with limited income, we decided IKEA was the place to find a suitable changing table. The only one small enough to fit in our bathroom was SNIGLAR, but I thought it looked weak and rickety.

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Robust changing table

Materials: varde counter, boholmen kitchen sink, atlant strainer, edsvik kitchen faucet Description: When we were designing our first kitchen, I wanted to avoid chipboard as much as possible and have something sturdy. That’s why we decided to chose Varde kitchen. On the other hand our kitchen room wasn’t too big, so we had to save the place. That’s why we replaced one drawer in Varde counter with kitchen sink.

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Varde counter drawer hacked by kitchen sink

Materials: UDDEN drawer unit, PAX BALLSTAD closer door, PERFEKT plinth, plus various bits and pieces. Screwdriver, Sandpaper, Saw etc. etc. Description: This might not be your typical hack that people can try themselves but I hope it will help inspire people to solve their own furniture problems. I've been making videoreviews of DVD box sets on youtube for a few years and always filmed my videos on a plain white table

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The Foldable Udden Desk

Materials: Besta Shelf Unit, two Inreda Half Shelves, black and white checkered contact paper, self adhesive vinyl tiles (12inx12in from Home Depot – wood look for kitchen and tile look for bathroom), currogated cardboard (Save Besta box!) and ultra plush fabric for carpeted rooms (more plush than fleece), poster board and scrapbook paper (12inx12in) for walls, doll furniture (See Description for more details), utility knife, straight edge, rubber cement, spray adhesive, mounting squares, mini hooks, storage containers, metal wire saran wrap holder, plastic mirror sheet Description: This was designed for a small space in a room shared by my 4 year old girl and 2 year old boy. If you have more space or only girls you may want to modify this by adding more Besta units, taking away the garage etc. Please note that the “garage” is not big enough to hold American Girl/Our Generation sized cars

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Besta American Girl Sized Doll House/Toy Car Garage

Materials: Liatorp Skjenk Description: We bought a used sideboard online, actually an IKEA furniture called Liatorp Skjenk. The sideboard was nice, but we needed a sideboard for the bedroom, and the original one wasn't really fitting in. So I decided to do something about it.

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Liatorp refreshment

Materials: Boksel sofa table, USB-powered case fans, electric drill and large bits, furniture stain, screws and bolts, furniture feet Description: For a long time I've wanted to replace my old IKEA media center cabinet. Multiple times I've lingered in the Besta section but just couldn't imagine a solution that I liked. Last weekend we found the Boksel sofa table in the as-is section, which met almost all of my desires, but needed a few adjustments.

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Boksel Media Box