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Turn an Ikea Diaper Table into a Pair of Wall Shelves for Kitty

Posted by Sonia Zjawinski to Decorating and Furniture and How-To and Pets and Reuse and Storage on 12 July 2010, with 4 comments so far.

Ever since I saw Kim Johnson’s Ikea hacked kitty shelf I’ve wanted to make one of my own. The clever mod cuts an Ikea diaper changing table in half to create two wall shelves affixed to the wall.

With an Ikea gift card given as a wedding gift, I set out to make my own. Along the way, with the help of my sculptor father (who is a crafty carpenter, plumber, and general genius on the side), I made some adjustments to Kim’s original schematics. After the jump, how to make my version of Kim’s clever hack.

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How To: Table Vase

Posted by Chris Gardner to Decorating and How-To on 14 May 2010, with 4 comments so far.

The jar lid screwed to the underside of a shelf is a popular tip for space-saving home organization, but the goal there is usually to see and access what’s in the jar itself. This through-the-table vase by Tomokazu Hayakawa offers a fresh spin—hide the jar under the table and use it to nourish floral blooms.

Simply screwing the jar lid to the bottom of the table and then drilling a hole through the table and lid (the post suggests IKEA’s Vika Furuskog) makes it simple to support a single flower, or several in series.

[Read more at IKEA Hacker: Table Vase]

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IKEA Hack: Creating a Hanging Cocktail Bar from Dish Draining Racks

Posted by Chris Gardner to Kitchen and Organizing and Storage on 13 April 2010, with 4 comments so far.

Once the kitchen cabinets are full and the countertops cluttered, where else is there to go but up?

Tight on space and budget, an unnamed IKEAHacker created this spirit-and-glassware storage center from IKEA’s ASKER dish drying racks, hung on an ASKER rail, with a few wine glass racks suspended below.

“Constrained for space and renting (so not wanting to make big holes in the wall) I decided to hang everything I could in the kitchen.  This included hanging pots and pans over the entrance to the kitchen (careful to hang the small ones over the passage to permit passage for up to 6′3″), and the Asker suspended liquor bar hack.”

[Asker Liquor Bar Hack at IKEA Hacker]

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