IKEA hack: Sacrifice Skovel and Rusch on the altar of Noir
Description: I used the Skovel wall clock to replicate Kirika’s pocket watch (not to scale, obviously) from the 2001 Noir TV series. An extra Rush was sacrificed for the clockwork…
IKEA hack: Ordning Wake-up Light
Description: I like waking up with a dawn simulator alarm clock, but unfortunately the one I have has controls that are less than user-friendly. What I’d really want is a…
IKEA hack: built-in LEDBERG
Materials: Ledberg (2 units) Description: I wanted to put LED lighting under my kitchen cabinets on the cheap, so I bought 2 Ledberg units. But once home I encountered 2…
IKEA hack: Twin Kvarna
I wanted some light for my computer desk, and I like the Kvarna because it doesn’t take much space, but I didn’t like that the light is so close to…
IKEA hack: FRAMSTÅ as regular glass shelves
Materials: – FRAMSTÅ – EKBY STILIG – LEDBERG – some bits of wood Description: I went to Ikea looking for some glass shelves to display my Chinese teapot collection, but…
IKEA hack: RIBBA keychain display box
I made a display box for my Noir keychains. Materials: 2 10x15cm RIBBA framesBamboo skewerGlue, black ink I cut the back panel of both frames in half lengthwise, then cut…
IKEA hack: NOT/BLANDA lamp
Materials: – NOT lamp – BLANDA Blank salad bowl – FIXA hole-cutting thingy Description: This hack is pretty self-explanatory. I have one of the old silver NOT lamps, and after…
IKEA hack: custom CAPITA
This may not look very impressive, but I really wish I figured out sooner that the “feet” of the Capita legs can be removed (by simply pulling them out). The…
IKEA hack: Olunda shadowbox
The Olunda is a shadowbox frame displaying 9 pretty boring pictures of ferns. The back of the frame is stapled on, and the staples are relatively easy to pull out…
Doweling by eyeball
How I doweled my cabinet door parts together on sight for lack of a doweling kit: 1: clamp your wood exactly parallel to the edge of your work surface: 2.…