IKEA’s announcement of plans to release a TV and entertainment system integrated into a piece of furniture has garnered heaps of coverage. However, those devices won’t hit markets outside of Europe until 2013.
IKEA’s Poang chairs are some of the most comfortable I’ve ever owned, but if it’s a portable workstation you need and not a comfy chair, this IKEA hack may be right up your alley. Just turn the chair’s wooden frame on its back, screw in a couple of wooden supports for your monitor and peripherals, a few casters on the bottom, and you’re all set. The frame holds a surprising amount of weight, and the casters let you wheel your computer anywhere in the room it needs to go.
We’ve shown you before how to turn the $7.99 Brada laptop support into a pair of iPad stands. With a little sawing, Jordan at IKEA Hackers converted it into a vertical stand for his MacBook Pro.
IKEA’s LACK table topped our list of best IKEA purchases under $10. This re-imagining gives it an Apple flavour by incorporating the side of a no-longer-functioning G5 Mac into the top of the table.
Ever since I spotted this hack combining an old-fashioned vinyl record with the $6.99 Marius stool from IKEA, I knew I had to try it for myself eventually. The end result is a unique and fun piece of furniture that costs well under $10 if you buy a second-hand LP.
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.
Living in a loft or studio offers some strange challenges in apartment layout. Instructables user Castor bricoleur wanted a way to not just divide his loft into rooms, but also to rotate the TV so it’s viewable in both rooms. His solution? Hacking an IKEA STOLMEN pole mount so the television can rotate 180 degrees.
It’s definitely not the most efficient way to get a clock on your wall (or the cheapest), but if you’re interested in tinkering with an Arduino, this laser wall clock definitely fits the bill.
A simple deal: spend $250 at IKEA this week and get a $25 gift voucher. Time for a new bookcase or two? (As ever, this seems to be an East-Coast-only deal.) [IKEA]
Because February 29 only comes around once every four years, retailers use it as yet another excuse to hold sales. Here are the leap year sale events we’ve noticed.
