Concealed ventilation

Materials: 1 black Fritiof stool, 4 hooks, 1 shoelace (1m), powerdrill

Description: Unscrew the seating surface from the legs.
Screw 4 hooks in the skrewholes of the seating surface.
Drill 8 small holes in the ventilation casing.
Thread the shoelace throught the holes and the hooks, tense it and knot together. Finished.

You can alternatively use the white Fritiof stool for white ceilings.

~ s__m, germany

Child-proof vice versa

Materials: cavity anchor, screw

Description: It is a solution for a most common problem if you have to re-equip your furniture in order to make it child-proof.

IKEA offers the PATRULL drawer/cabinet catch, which will, in their words, "Reduce[] the risk of the child reaching improper contents in drawers/cabinets." As for that, the tiny plastic catch serves its purpose well. Unfortunately, at the same time it increases the risk of the child jamming its fingers because it only prevents a drawer from being opened for more than 4 or 5 centimeters, bot not from being closed again.

So I decided to enhance the mechanism by using a special kind of cavity anchor in addition to the PATRULL catch. I cut off one of the anchor's two blades and screwed it in right above the catch. The effect is, now when you try to open the drawer it will be stuck in both directions. You choose either to open it further by pressing in the catch or to close it entirely by pressing in the remaining blade of the anchor. That's it.

~ Marcus Wilhelm, Kassel, Germany

Husar Re-Envisioned Into Recycling Center

Materials: Husar Shelving

Description:
I changed my knotty pine Husar drawer and shelf unit into a stylish recycling center with some thin lattice wood strips and stain.

the original Husar

The biggest impact comes from the addition of the lattice wood, which is cheap and easy to use! I love the difference it makes! This stuff is easy to cut and just needs a little glue or small brad nails to attach.

I built a new top out of pine lumber (beveled the edge on my table saw) and added a footer cut out of a 1x4 with a jigsaw and screwed on from below.

Finally, I built new doors, even though Husar units can with optional doors, I didn't have any.

Attached the doors to the bottom with hinges, added funky antique hardware pulls and hinge supports.

More storage, more recycling, more style... LOVE.

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~ Christin@Pregnant with power tools

Foldable LAN party tables

Materials: VIKA AMON/VIKA CURRY, hinges, brackets, chipboard, rubber bushes, rope, buckles

Description: At LAN-parties, tables and space are limited. My husband and his gamer friends went table hunting at IKEA and my guy came home with two neat and price worthy tabletops "VIKA AMON" (100x60 cm) and eight "VIKA CURRY" legs.

He takes them with him every time they throw a party, but since the tables were still a bit bulky to carry, he started modifying them. The goal was to fold the table into a "portfolio", with room for the legs inside!

First he cut the tabletops in halves. The tables are hollow with cardboard inside so they needed to be reinforced, and the cut surfaces smoothed. He used chipboard for this purpose.

He then mounted hinges on the backs of the tabletop pieces. Since he wanted to store the legs inside the fold, he used brackets to extend the hinges and make more room, and he attached rubber bushes to keep the legs in place. Handles were made out of rope, and the folded table is kept folded with buckles.

The tables turned out GREAT, and they are very useful - for all types of indoor parties.

Check out the entire description at here. (in Swedish, but if you paste the link in Google translate you'll understand most of it).

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~ Sofia, Sweden

BILLY made into a silent and neat server case

Materials: BILLY bookcase, MOREBO glas doors, chipboard, metal bars, computer components and other stuff

Description: My husband is an electronic engineer and consequently we have a lot of computers in our house. As long as they are quiet and don't show much, I don't mind. In our last apartment he managed to modify a Billy bookcase into a silent and neat server case! It was so clever, that now when we don't need it anymore, he was able to reverse it into a book case again.

First he made a copy of the bottom piece of the Billy bookcase, so he wouldn't wreck it. Then he built a chassis for the components out of chipboard and metal bars and mounted it on the new bottom piece. He made sure that there was a hole in the bottom where cool air could enter into a padded (sound muffling) space, then move through fans and exit on the top of the chassis.

The chassis got padded doors on hinges to allow easy access for maintenance. The back of the bookcase had to be partly removed to make room for cords.

The server only took about 40 cm of height in the Billy bookcase, so he put shelves on top of the server where he could store all his other electronics stuff. 

Then we bought MOREBO glass doors and arrayed them with fabrics matching our living room.

The server case was almost completely silent, and very discrete. Makes wife happy! 

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~ Sofia, Sweden

Galant Dining table

Materials: GALANT meeting room table

Description: There was GALANT meeting room table in the bin. Table surface was in terrible condition but table legs were OK. I glued 8 mm plywood on the surface and beech baseboard list to the table edge.

White paint is excess from sailboat project ( Hemplel Brilliant Enamer ). You do not need to be an finnish software engineer and stingy in these projects - but it helps.

~ Heikki Tanner, Tampere Finland

A Gorm guitar shelf

Materials: Gorm

Description:
This guitar shelf took me about 3 hours to make from the shelves I bought in IKEA. The main step is making the original shelf into the way that you can see in the picture above.

And there's a important point on this guitar shelf that's how it was done completely. To buy a bottle shelf and place it on the bottom. Then you can just put 8 guitars or basses you want. By the way, these all cost me $1000NT.


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~ herguitarcraft