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Materials: Ikea table, and stackable Ikea shelves. Description: I was originally looking for a monitor stand for my iMac . My intent was to lift my iMac slightly off the desk so I could have just enough space for a keyboard, my laptop, or some papers. Another feature I was looking for was some front facing USB ports, since all iMacs have the USB ports on the rear of the monitor – makes using a USB hub almost a necessity. Upon browsing online it seemed like a decent monitor stand for my iMac was going to run me $60 – $80 for the bare minimum that I was looking for.

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Elevated iMac Monitor Shelf

Materials: FAKTUM wall cabinet, FAKTUM legs, SIGNUM cable outlet kit, PERFEKT SOLÄR plinth Description: So, moving in to my new apartment made me realize just how much stuff I had and how little extra space I actually had available. Therefore I had a little brainstorming session, and this is what I came up with. Instead of using a normal media furniture (I couldn’t find any that wasn’t super-expensive), I decided to use the FAKTUM wall cabinet made for kitchens.

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Extra long media furniture

Minimal hacking but wanted to share Edina’s gorgeous white kitchen. Love it. ~ Jules Materials: LIDINGÖ furniture Description: The lower cabinets furniture Lindingo run, they were nut-colored sheet. To be a little different so we took them to other handles. We put wallpaper on the wall and glass, stainless steel, took over the stove

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Eye candy: The white kitchen

Materials: Lack Side Table, Idealisk Measuring Cup Description: What happens when you’re fed up with the cheap quality, high priced, children furniture sold in stores??? You say screw it and make your own cheap quality furniture for less. This hack came about when I tried to purchase a chalk table for my preschool art classes. As I later discovered that these chalkboard tables can go for an obscene amount of money, I figured, “I can build it for less than $50.” I was DEAD WRONG because it only cost me less than $25 in materials

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For LACK Of A Reasonably Priced Chalk Table

Materials: Malm Bed and Dresser Description: After being inspired by so many cool projects on this website, hoping my daughter would sleep in her own room, and deciding I didn’t want to pay $2500 for kids’ bunk beds I came up with a design to use used Malm items to make my kids a new bedroom set. This was a combination of three easy hacks and one harder one requiring actual building. I got two used Malm beds, and a used Malm dresser. I used the two headboards from the beds to make my toddler’s bed- simply replacing the footboard with the second headboard, so she couldn’t scoot off the bottom of the bed and under the bunk by accident. I used the rails and slats from the second bed on the upper bed that I built to match the Malm beds- the headboard, footboard, and stair wall are 2″ thick, and the headboard is the same height above the mattress as the Malm headboard.

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Malm Toddler Bed under Malm-inspired Bunk

Materials: cavity anchor, screw Description: It is a solution for a most common problem if you have to re-equip your furniture in order to make it child-proof. IKEA offers the PATRULL drawer/cabinet catch, which will, in their words, “Reduce[] the risk of the child reaching improper contents in drawers/cabinets.” As for that, the tiny plastic catch serves its purpose well. Unfortunately, at the same time it increases the risk of the child jamming its fingers because it only prevents a drawer from being opened for more than 4 or 5 centimeters, bot not from being closed again. So I decided to enhance the mechanism by using a special kind of cavity anchor in addition to the PATRULL catch. I cut off one of the anchor’s two blades and screwed it in right above the catch.

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Child-proof vice versa

Materials: Husar Shelving Description: I changed my knotty pine Husar drawer and shelf unit into a stylish recycling center with some thin lattice wood strips and stain. the original Husar The biggest impact comes from the addition of the lattice wood, which is cheap and easy to use! I love the difference it makes! This stuff is easy to cut and just needs a little glue or small brad nails to attach. I built a new top out of pine lumber (beveled the edge on my table saw) and added a footer cut out of a 1×4 with a jigsaw and screwed on from below. Finally, I built new doors, even though Husar units can with optional doors, I didn’t have any.

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Husar Re-Envisioned Into Recycling Center

Description: There’s no hack here. So, you don’t need to go hunting for it. I just wanted to feature this classy home office and enjoy a little breather from hacking. All the furniture in the this office is from Ikea and paired beautifully with other accents

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Eye candy: An Ikea furnished home office

Materials: Expedit Description: The pictures are of our house, where we were searching for a long time to find a celling lamp to fit the style and size of the main living room. Finally we used the EXPEDIT shelf! I put some wires and bulb sockets inside, and then screwed the shelf directly to the ceiling (Oufff! Not easy, you need 2-3 people for that).

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A lamp made of …. EXPEDIT

Materials: Expedit Description: The pictures are of our house, where we were searching for a long time to find a celling lamp to fit the style and size of the main living room. Finally we used the EXPEDIT shelf! I put some wires and bulb sockets inside, and then screwed the shelf directly to the ceiling (Oufff! Not easy, you need 2-3 people for that). Then using small shelf supports left over from another furniture, I installed milk coloured plastics to hide electric installation and make the light softer.

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A lamp made of …. EXPEDIT