Ikea Stonehenge

Materials: Stones and an ikea step by step

Description: Not really a hack, but funny ikea related ;-)

See the full Henj assembly on how to be a retronaut.

~ zimmie

Decorated Ikea Malma frames

Materials: Malma 10" Mirror frame

Description: Firstly, I painted them white using acrylic paints. I covered the entire front surface with a strong double sided tape. I punched out literally hundreds of 1cm squares choosing the colours carefully. I foiled my own papers for my mosaic mirrors using various pearl, holographic and pale coloured foils.

I only worked on a one strip of tape peeled back at a time sticking each square on carefully and leaving equal gaps inbetween them. Once I finished covering all the frame I sprinkled white glitter to fill in as the 'grout' and to complete them I stuck pretty sequins around the mirror itself.

I cut pieces of embossed wallpaper and stuck them to the frames, then I painted them a few times with acrylic paints giving a good covering., then I used a hot foiling pen to apply some beautiful puple foil in the plain areas. I added sequins and gems just to glam them up a bit too.

See more of the mosaic Malma frames and wallpapered Malma.

~ Sylvie

Stripes for this Kritter

Materials: Kritter table for kids and paint

Description: My daughters doodled all over this table so bad, the markers didn't come off anymore, so I decided to make it prettier and fun. I picked the colors and went for stripes..

~ Sara, Italy

Spa Bath Mat from IKEA outdoor decking

Materials: Platta Outdoor Decking

Description: I used IKEA's Platta Outdoor Decking to create a Spa Bath Mat.

The Spa Bath Mat originally started as IKEA outdoor decking.

To make the bath mat all you need are 6 squares of the pre-assembled outdoor decking. (They come in sets of 9.) Just snap them together then use a saw to remove the extra tabs around the outside of your new mat.

For a full tutorial including a video showing how to cut off the extra tabs, you can visit House of Hepworths.

See more of the spa bath mat.

~ Allison Hepworth, Austin, Texas

Sleek Console Table

Materials: 3 ECKBY JARPEN Shelves size 46 7/8", 8 2" coarse pocket screws, table saw

Description: I had been looking for a console table to fit in a nook behind my sofa so I went to Ikea to see what might work.

1) Purchase 3 Ekby Jarpen Shelves at 46 7/8"long
2) Use a pocket screw jig to make 4 pocket screw holes in the top inside of the shelves that will become your "legs" of your console table and repeat this same step for the other leg.
3) Use a regular table saw to cut the legs to your desired length. 30-31" is standard for a console table.

4) Screw the top of your table to the legs using the 2" coarse pocket screws. There will be 4-2" screws used on each leg. They will screw from the inside of the leg to the bottom of your console table shelf.
5) Stage your new console table, stand back and smile

*Note that the pocket screw jog makes your screws not visible from the top of your table giving you a more finished look instead of exposed screws.

See more of the sleek console table.

~ thecubaninmycoffee, Miami, FL

Maskros XL

Materials: Maskros, Plain white paper coffee cups, Glue gun

Description: Looking for a reasonably priced pendant lamp for a restaurant in Sarajevo, we stumbled across the Maskros. Actually, we already had one hanging in our office but we sort of needed to re-discover it as a candidate for this project.

The Maskros lamp is an excellent space filler due to its sheer size, but it also provides interesting shadow plays and helps to define the room even outside of its own physical sphere.

For this project though, we needed an even bigger lamp with the same characteristics. What we had to do was to increase the radius of the lamp. However we still wanted to preserve the translucency of the original lamp.

After trying out several ideas we decided to keep it as simple as possible. By using plain white paper cups, we managed to maintain translucency and still increase the radius of the lamp by about 1/3. The result was a spectacular pendant with crisp clean looks and only added a couple of euros to the original product.

Building it is straightforward. Instead of mounting the thin leaves that ships with the light, use the same mount and add a little glue from a glue gun and attach the bottom of a paper cup to the glue. Then assemble the lamp and enjoy!

Paper cups can be found in most bigger supermarkets or office supply stores.

See more of the Maskros XL.

~ Emir Salkic, Dino Eminagic, normal arhitektura, Sarajevo, BiH

Candle stand? Bird stand!

Materials: V�ghult candle holder

Description: 1. The first thing to do is to get a wood branch that fits best for the candle stand. Go for a walk in the countryside where you have infinite options.

Wash the branch, let it dry then sand it smooth.

2. Drill some holes at the base and one hole at the neck then tighten the candle stand and fix it onto the wall (tied to the window grille in my case).

3. Stick the branch to the candle stand and screw it tight through the hole on the neck.

4. Happy birds!

~ Kinwai, Hong Kong