You may think that Ikea does not feature often in designer homes, think again. Take a peek into Chris and Linda's magazine-perfect home and see how Ikea hangs comfortably with the best of them.
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Chris says, "Ikea is throughout our new Seattle-area home, the
House of the Week in the 2/3/08 edition of Pacific NW Magazine. We have an attached granny unit with a kitchen and bath totally in Ikea cabinets, dining lamp in same unit, a Varde-cabinet laundry room, stainless steel cabinet handles and stainless steel shelves in main kitchen and wet bar, 36 linear feet Pax built-ins (and two chest-of-drawers) in the walk-through master closet, stainless steel cabinet pulls in another bath and media room, a pendant light in the media room, a full-wall perforated metal shelf / computer workstation in the den / guest room, and a mirror and two wall lights in the powder room.
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The big 'hack', though, is the way that six track lighting systems are installed in five rooms of the house. Rather than spending $40 per articulated rod for the 20 rods ($800) needed to suspend the tracks from the sloping ceilings, I showed the electricians the Ikea stainless steel
Deka curtain-wire system and gave them directions on how to adapt it to suspend the tracks. It took 33 of these 'kits' at $4.00 each ($132) for the job.
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It wasn't just a matter of cost savings. Our industrial-modern house has a lot of design elements and didn't need the addition of 20 black rods in the overhead space. The curtain-wires are nearly invisible . . . the tracks seem to float in space. We will soon use the same components to suspend glass shelves in a display cabinet in the entry."
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