If you have medium-large to large dogs it can be difficult to keep their food area organised. My dog loves to push around his food and water bowls, often spilling them in process. Instead why not cut out holes in an $10 IKEA Lack side table to fit your dog’s food and water bowls to make sure they stay in one place.
If you like to host large dinner parties but don’t have an especially large family you may be interested in this project. Instructables user falk designed and built a formal dining table that can comfortably seat 10 but folds down to the size of a couch table.
TV lift cabinets are great accessories for your home theatre system. The only trouble is that while you can you get a smaller bedroom-sized lift cabinet for under a thousand bucks, cabinets for full size home theatre TVs (up to 60″) can go up to two or three grand. Here’s a design you can make yourself and accommodate as big as a TV as you’d like for less than half that amount.
Maybe you have an old chest of drawers that is falling apart, or you found an abandoned drawer along the highway. Either way with a couple of wood slats, glue and woodstain, you can turn that landfill-bait into a portable drawer that can be used anywhere in your home.
That recessed space at the bottom of a kitchen cabinet is dead space, only there for ergonomic reasons. With a cheap drawer kit from Ikea and a little carpentry work, you can turn that space into something much cooler: a hidden drawer.
If you’ve come home from an IKEA run, settled in to put the furniture together, and found that while unpacking everything you’ve misplaced a screw, the solution might be right inside the box. Use the packing styrofoam as a cradle for the screws and tools that come with the furniture.
I’m impressed by the notion of photographing abandoned sofas in the streets of Sydney. However, I can’t help wishing the results didn’t look quite so posed.
Green living blog Re-Nest advises that if you have scratches on furniture with a medium-dark or darker stain, dip a cotton swab in used coffee grounds and cover the scratches. Let the grounds sit on the scratches for 10 minutes and then wipe them away gently.
This Lack hack combines the iconic IKEA table with some printer paper to create a coffee table that pulls double duty in your living room or office as a notepad, drawing table, brainstorming pad and creativity station. Once you get the paper, it’s surprisingly easy to make.
