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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

Materials: VIKA AMON, VIKA CURRY, VIKA ANNEFORS, EKBY JARPEN, BILLY Description: I wanted to build a desk to produce music and still have enough space to work and do everyday stuff. In the beginning I planned to build everything on my own, but soon I realized that it must be cheaper and easier to combine some IKEA furniture. There were some requirements I had, that didn't make the selection that easy: – It should look awesome (of course) – It should match my existing furniture like a Malm bed

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Music Producing Desk

Materials: Hemnes 6 Drawer Dresser, raw wood trim, paintable wallpaper Description: Hemnes are pretty solid pieces of furniture. I've had mine for SIX years and it's still sturdy and perfectly functional. Sometimes their traditional yet modern look is perfect for a room. But I wanted something with a little more character and detail for our spare room. So I hacked! Click to read the rest of the post > >

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Handsome Hemnes

Materials: PERFEKT ABSTRAKT cabinets, plywood, glue, IKEA hardware Description: We have an a walk through space from our dining room to our family room that we use as a bar. Since we moved in early this year, we just threw a collection of random furniture pieces in the space. After not finding anything that fit the space perfectly with the look we wanted, we decided on hacking some kitchen cabinets for this purpose

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Custom bar from IKEA kitchen cabinets

Materials: 1 Square Ikea Lack End Table, Carpet Remnant, Foam, Wooden spindle legs (if desired), hot glue gun, staple gun, brackets for legs (if desired), pliers – just in case!, stain (if desired) Description: Recently, we got rid of our old living room set, complete with the Ikea entertainment center and tables. But the new living room set up removed a piece of furniture from the front window area. The problem with this is that it's where Sneezy would sit and look out for hours on end and wait for us to come home from our daily adventures. Enter Solution – how to turn an Ikea Lack table in to a cat perch

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The Ikea Lack grows up to be a Cat Perch

Materials: EXPEDIT Shelving unit 4×4 (white), 2x LACK Wall shelf 30×26cm (white), 79×39x1.8cm beech work plate, 50×24x25.cm beech work plate, 2 CAPITA console stainless steel, some EXPEDIT gear Description: Recently I began to feel unhappy with my current home office environment. At work I am sitting all day in front of my iMac and when I get home I really didn't feel like sitting anymore. So I started looking for alternative ways of working and thought about my last job where we had tables to move up and down in case we felt more like standing at work.

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Mr. T: another iMac standing desk

Materials: EMMABO frame, Seat Belt Webbing Description: Seat belt turned belt seat. This EMMABO Rocking Chair utilizes automotive safety strap webbing in a re-creation of its seat.

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Belt Seat

Materials: EXPEDIT Door Hacks Description: We added some nice raw wood doors to our EXPEDIT bookshelves which we stained to match our furniture, allowing us to display/hide books and objects as we wish. We also hacked a smaller EXPEDIT for a vinyl listening station.

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Hacked IKEA bookshelf