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Materials: Besta, Varna, Stolmen components Description: This is the first in a series of sculpture/furniture pieces that are based on the architecture of Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus. Specifically, I am making IKEA models of all eight mid-century Modern Gropius buildings that are currently being demolished by the City of Chicago. This piece is based on the 1953 Power Plant (pix, right).

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Cabinet for Walter Gropius

Materials: Ivar chairs, wood stain, polyurethane finish, jute twine, large tapestry needle Description: At a local furniture outlet, we snagged a large, clean-lined dining table in a dark-stained wood, but it didn’t come with chairs. After looking at many (rather expensive) chair options, we decided to get six Ivar chairs and customize them to fit our needs. First, we used a dark wood stain and several coats of polyurethane to refinish all the chairs to match the table. Then, to lighten the overall look and add a bit of beachy flair (we live near the Connecticut shoreline), we wrapped each rung of the chair with jute twine from a craft store, hiding the end of the twine under the wrapping at the beginning and weaving the ends in with a tapestry needle at the end. The result is a very inexpensive set of chairs that perfectly complements the table.

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Beach cottage-chic Ivar chairs

Materials: 2 Hyllis shelving units, a good screwdriver Description: The Hyllis is a nice piece of furniture to begin with, in my opinion, despite the awful name.Simple, honest metal and a few screws. Lovely. Also, the Hyllis is embarrasingly cheap. The idea is simple – stock to units on top of each other. Save space, get a cooler looking piece of furniture

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Double Up the Hyllis

This is really just a modification or practical application of wonderful hacks that I found on this site. I take a step further by incorporating moderate handy-man skills to turn just a few bucks of Ikea stuffs into a real slam of a home theater system. before I used the Lack long and medium shelves to build the frame, and the Lack side table to do the entertainment center. The wires go into the wall behind the TV and come out on the OTHER SIDE in my bedroom near the baseboards, travel to the far wall, then return behind the bikes, and run below the heaters all the way to the entertainment center

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Lack wall mounted home Theater

Materials: 4×2 Expedit shelf, 2 Expedit doors inlays, 4 extra strong brackets, screws Description: I was looking for a solution to wall mount my video projector, together with a computer and hide all cabeling, so I came accros the solution to wall mount a heavy expedit shelf with some extra strong brackets. Because the Expedit doors inlays does not fit together with the brackets I just screwed the doors directly to the shelf. With the old inlay stuff I build a angel adjustment for the video projector, a cable hideout for the computer and a hideout for my DVB-T amplifier. ~ Marcus Carl, Germany CAUTION! Unless you know what you are doing, please DO NOT attempt to mount heavy furniture on the wall.

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Video projector shelf

Materials: Lack wall shelf Description: We wanted to put up something that our cats could use to climb on and that didn’t take up any valuable horizontal real estate. Saw a pet store in our neighborhood using shelves as climbing walls for cats and looked online only to find that this is not so uncommon a practice and discovered this fab site along the way. Here is our version of a cat hack using Lack

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Hack of a Lack holding Cat

Materials: 30″ Akurum horizontal wall cabinet, reclaimed Douglas fir, MDF panels Description : I have a custom furniture/cabinetry company in LA, Handmade, that has just launched a line of custom doors, panels and drawer faces for frameless kitchen and bathroom cabinets – anything from the big-box lines, IKEA, you name it. We call the line SEMIhandmade.

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SEMIhandmade

Materials: Vika Curry leg, Ekby Statlig shelf Description: The goal was to make a pair of cheap and simple speaker stands. Vika legs are just suitable height to bring the speaker to the ear level when I’m sitting down, and in black they will match the legs of my desk. For the base plate I used an Ekby Statlig solid wood shelf in 19cm width. To put it all together I bought an 8mm threaded rod in the hardware store and a couple of nuts and washers

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Vika Curry speaker stand

Materials: Discontinued Ikea kitchen table, Gabbro stone slab, Rill (small) casters, wood screws Description: I wanted to tailor a couch table to my needs – with the right height, with a very sturdy tabletop and with swivel casters. At that time an inexpensive and simple kitchen table was available at Ikea (can’t remember the name). I cut its legs to the desired height and painted it with transparent paint (glaze) to match the rest of the furniture (palisander)

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Kitchen table gone couch table

Materials: Paper Description: It’s not really a hack but it’s the outcome of a brief I was set at university. I currently study Graphic Design at University College Falmouth and was recently set a brief about Ikea, namely, to promote the new catalogue. I stumbled upon this very site and found the creative ways people used Ikea products.

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Ikea Handmades