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Erik and Eric tipped me on this Flamma hack by Helmut Smit, an artist/designer. I’m still iffy on it because it’s either a very expensive way to keep warm or a brilliant demo on how we can survive when we really need to by gutting our beloved Ikea furniture. You be the jury. Link to video on youtube .

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Best Ikea hack ever? You decide.

Futon ready! Sofa again! Materials: Lilliberg 3 person sofa Description: I bought a Lilliberg 3 seater sofa frame by itself because it was on sale. I had an old metal futon that was falling apart so I used the hinges on the futon to turn the Lilliberg sofa into a Lilliberg futon. First I shortened the legs by a few inches because I like lower furniture but also the futon hinges would add a few inches to the height of the sofa. The futon back and bottom needed a wooden frame to be attached to the hinges.

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Lilliberg Futon

Materials: Ivar verticals, Ivar shelves, 6mm dowels, twine, varnish Description: When we left the last city we lived in and sold all of our Ikea furniture, I swore “No more pressboard. No more low-end Ikea. Next time, solid wood and antiques only.” Of course, within weeks of the move, I was back inside an Ikea, looking for inexpensive furniture to supplement what was already in our furnished flat – especially bookshelves. But, the furniture we get now will go into the place we eventually buy, and I was determined to stay away from Billy shelves

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Ivar bookshelf

Materials: Grundtal rail, Grundtal S hook, Lansa handle, Panna black coaster, Svep knob Description: Our two year old daughter was crazy about cooking and acting like a real cook lately. She was a great fan of the Ikea playkitchen, and although we thought it was very cool, it was a bit expensive for us.

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Snowwhite playkitchen from Hungary

Materials: IKEA bookshelf, jeans, acrylic paints, nails, decoupage cards, old rack, yarn, glue, finish Description: This is most favorite piece of furniture in my apartment. I spent over two months to transform ordinary used IKEA bookshelf to a funny entry furniture. I named it “Road trip”.

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Bookshelf = entry way furniture (Road trip)

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