If you find yourself living away from your loved ones, the Good Night Lamp might be a way to bridge the gap. The series of house-shaped lamps are connected via the internet and they let you send or receive a signal (by the house being lit) from the people most important to you.

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Good Night Lamp: A Family of House-Shaped Lamps

Materials: Pax

Description: I’m glad to show you my ikea hack! Mine it’s a 42sqm room that I had to divide into a day and night zone without building any wall!

I decided to buy a huge Pax wardrobe and put it in the center of my room! I assembled a Pax component with a 90degrees rotation and left it without door: now it’s my bookshelf!

Then I bought an Ikea cloth to cover the wardrobe back and my old grandparents wooden bedhead.

~ Elisa, Rome, Italy.

Materials: Ikea ODDA night stand

Description: Being a recent college graduate without a job, sometimes you have to be creative. I had two Ikea night stands, which I turned into rack mounts for my audio gear. I popped off the four wheels. It just so happens that the width of the night stand is exactly the same width needed for a rack for audio equipment. All I had to do was drill holes on either side of the stand and then slip the racks right in. Hope you enjoy!

~ Sammy Stein