Posts tagged: ikeahacker
Give your IKEA the wow factor
By Grippiks
If you love IKEA, you'll love this new product.
Grippiks Surface Accents let you create your own look for IKEA using colour and pattern.
They're easy to use, because they're printed on a clever new film that grips to surfaces with micro-suction, not sticky adhesive. So positioning, repositioning, and removing them is easy.
Grippiks are pre-cut to fit a range of IKEA's most popular series - BILLY, BENNO, EXPEDIT, EFFEKTIV, LACK, and MALM.
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1Hack a Laptop Desk
By DIY Maven
Adam from Boston used an Ikea benjamin stool to hack a laptop desk. All you need to pull this off is the $20 benjamin stool and a $6 coping saw. Brilliant.
Hack a Lack Headboard
By DIY Maven
Michael used a couple Ikea Lack shelving units to hack together this very pleasing headboard.
Michael says, “I bought one lack shelving unit full price from Ikea, and found the other for cheap in the returns/damaged department. One unit turned out to be slightly darker than the other one. In order to frame the bed, I made measurements, and had plywood cut to make up for the difference in length of shelf unit versus bed. I chose a stain slightly » READ MORE
Ikea Hackers are Famous.
By ChrisjobPenelope Green of the New York Times published an article on Thursday about the burgeoning collective of Ikea Hackers- those whom create new items out of the inexpensive materials from the Scandanavian design giant. Readymade magazine, Make, and Etsy also get a bit of coverage.
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A couple of my own Ikea hacks
By EastsidehipHey all you Ikea hacker fans, a couple of my Ikea hacks were recently featured on ikeahacker.blogspot.com. I recently turned a Lack tv bench into a desk and a Hemnes daybed into a banquette. You can also jump straight to my flickr page and check out the pics of these 2 projects there.
