Custom Bathroom Unit with Adils legs

Materials: 8 x ADILS Black Legs, 1 PRÄGEL Countertop

Description: I made a custom Bathroom Unit out of ADILS legs and PRÄGEL countertop.

Description:
I customized the PRÄGEL into 2 Units that fitted the width of the niche. I also made them trapezoids with one of the sides longer than the other.

I then drilled holes in the PRÄGEL for the pipes from the sink.

The nice things with the ADILS is that they are made of hollow metal, so they are easy to cut. You just pop out the plastic feet off the leg, cut it to the desired length, and pop the plastic feet back on.

The feet can also be adjusted to fine-tune the height of the legs.

I screwed the legs under the two PRÄGELs and put them on top of each other. I also used some L-brackets to fasten the PRÄGEL to the wall.

Ingredients:
8 x ADILS legs
1 x PRÄGEL countertop
2 x L-shaped brackets

Tools used:
1 Hand Saw for cutting wood (For cutting the PRÄGEL)
1 Hand Saw for cutting the metal ADILS legs
1 Hole Saw for cutting the holes for the pipings
1 Screwdriver to screw the ADILS legs on the PRÄGEL and the brackets to the wall.

~ Stein, Norway

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T Kitchen Island/Dining Table

Materials: Expedit Shelving unit, Pragel Countertop, Galant Tabletop, Vika Byske legs, wood and hardware

Description: 1. Attach the countertop to the bookshelf using Gorilla Glue and L-brackets. I used 8 brackets total: 1 on each short side and 3 on each long side.

2. Drill holes into the countertop.
I taped the area around the hole to prevent the laminate from shattering. I also started with a very small drill bit and gradually increased the size of the hole.

All the while, I had the drill in reverse to further prevent unwanted damage to the laminate. The metal attachments on the underside of the table will simply sit in the holes (about .5" deep). I initially thought the diameter of the metal pieces was 1.5 inches. It turns out the diameter was slightly larger than that, so I had to twist the drill around in a way that would make a real carpenter cringe.

3. Attach legs to the other end of the table.
I cut a 2x6 to about 24" and painted what would be the underside. I used the same 1.5" spade drill bit to put in holes (about .5" deep) into the wood. I then drilled a .25" hole so that I could run a bolt through the wood and screw it into the metal pieces on the table. I'd recommend starting with the small hole (I didn't, and what I did to get things to line up right would've made that carpenter cringe again).

Once the wood is attached to the table, just drill small pilot holes and screw the legs onto the wood.

4. Put it together. Have the metal sit in the holes on the counter (mine is pretty snug), and adjust the legs on the other end until everything is level.

5. Throw a party.

~ Glenn, Washington, DC

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Kitchen island - All ikea material

Materials: FAKTUM Wall cabinet, Applad white FAKTUM Base cabinet for recycling, Applad white, CAPITA Leg, stainless steel JULIUS Bar stool, Stainless steel, black PRAGEL Countertop, black stone effect, White paint, Hooks

Description: When we bought our house we wanted a kitchen island but we have a smaller kitchen so all the Islands we looked at were to big. So we decided to build our own. Buying everything from IKEA.

I put together the cabinets.
Then on with the legs.
I drilled holes in the cabinets and screwed them together.

I drilled holes for the countertop and screwed it together with the cabinets.
Painted the back with white colour and screwed some hooks under the countertop for dishtowels and pot holders.

It fits perfect with 3 Julius Bar stools.

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~ Jacob, Sweden

Headboard from Pragel kitchen worktop

Materials: Pragel kitchen worktop, Dioder led lights, corner molding, door frame plugs, drill, nailgun (or hammer), screws

Description: We wanted to have a modern and cheap headboard, which wasn't easy to find. So we ended up hacking an IKEA kitchen worktop, which was the exactly right size for our bed. Our bed is 180 cm wide and the Pragel worktop is 186 cm. We also decided to modernize it with some IKEA's Dioder led lights. We also used some corner mouldings to surround the worktop, which also hid the edges of the worktop. We used 6-inch screws to fasten the worktop to the wall and hid the screw heads with door frame plugs.

Putting the headboard together was surprisingly easy.

1. Measure and cut corner moldings to right measure to surround the top and the sides of the worktop (in our case the bottom was hidden by the bed).

2. In our case, we had to buy untreated mouldings, so at this point they were painted white (several layers to get the mint look).

3. If you want to add the led lights, you have to leave some space between the wall and the headboard. For this, we screwed a couple of wooden flat mouldings to the back of the worktop, to get the right gap taking into account that the corner mouldings were a bit wider than the countertop's thickness (we wanted to leave a gap of 12 mm so that the gap between the mouldings and the wall was about 5 mm so that the light shows).

4. After this, we fastened the Dioder lights in the back of the worktop.

5. The next step was to drill suitable holes. We drilled 13mm wide, 1,5 cm deep hole and rest of the hole as 5 mm wide. This was because we used 5*150 mm screws to fasten the headboard. The bigger portion of the hole was for the door frame plugs that covered the screw heads. We drilled the holes at places where the mouldings from point 3 were (6 holes in total; three scattered evenly on top and three at the bottom).

6. Now we lifted the headboard to the wall. The worktop is quite heavy so we used a couple of stands that were exactly the right height we wanted. At this point it was important to ensure that the Dioder wires were safely at the back. Then we drilled the 6-inch fastening screws in place and inserted the door frame plugs.

7. After this, it was time to fasten the corner mouldings to the sides. We used a nailgun, but it can be done with a hammer and nails or with screws as well.

Now all that was left was to put the light on the LEDs!

~ Superpallo, Finland

Laundry folding station out of a dishwasher cabinet

Materials: Varde dishwasher cabinet & Pragel countertop

Description: I needed a countertop for my kitchen and found it on a Varde dishwasher cabinet. I decided to repurpose the remainder of the cabinet to use as a laundry folding station. I assembled per the instructions minus the countertop and the wood piece in front. I then put it in place and screwed on a Pragel countertop. Project total $69.00. Now I have a place to fold laundry, store our trash bins and our dirty laundry. It also fills a random gap that I had between our washer and dryer.

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~ Monica, California

Kitchen worktop desk!

Materials: Two Walnut PR�GEL Worktops, 1 White Malm (3 drawers).

Description: I am a university student, and as such require a lot of desk space.

One thing that stores never seem to offer is large desk spaces at affordable prices, or of tasteful / useful design for what I was after.

This lead me down to Ikea to see what parts could be used together to make a nice wall-length desk for my workspace.

After finding the lovely kitchen worktops called "PR�GEL", I chose the colour I felt would match my blue walls. I didn't just want the worktops though, I needed some drawer space so went for a lovely Malm in white which I felt matched the worktop and my room colours perfectly.

Because the drawers were too high, the top of the drawers unit was not used and instead the worktop took its place. Also the bottom of the drawer unit was cut down to drop the height down to 720mm, perfect height to use for a desk.

The worktops were attached via brackets to the wall so they are very sturdy, something a basic desk unit would never offer you.

This hack came in very cheap at under �100.

I've also added some fairy lights underneath to set the whole desk off nicely.

~ Alex F, United Kingdom

Simple kitchen island

Materials: 2 Udden and 1 Pragel

Description: With 2 Udden and 1 Pragel we made an island for our kitchen! Very cheap and very beautiful!

~ Francesca Romana, Roma