Here’s the latest from the home front:
Couch due tomorrow. Recliner pay day after next (?)
More LACK shelving for vintage cameras. Will be nice and wish for a plasma TV on Christmas.
Unbalanced light looks weird right now. Need a 40W bulb. But this is more or less done.
Image: ABF
Thanks to Daf!
Have a nice weekend everyone. See you on Monday!
James Cridland mods an IKEA frame into a digital display:
“The plan is to have this picture frame showing all photographs with a
certain tag: and for it to rotate through them every five minutes or so.
So far, I’ve stripped down the laptop, mostly to turn the screen
around, to make it as flat as possible, and to strip as much prettiness
from the casing to ensure the thing runs nice and cool. The frame’s
planned to be open at the back, so that it doesn’t get too hot…”
PK Shiu, our friend from Moleskinerie has found his way to PF. Welcome Sir!
“I have waited and waited, finally we have a local Ikea store !! It’s
here just in time for us to outfit the new loft with selected items
from Ikea. When I was measuring the various space in the loft to fit
cabinets etc from Ikea, I always find that the Ikea items have strange
measurements. For example, why is the LACK shelf 13 3/4 inches wide?
Because,
we are the very last of the developed nation that still uses inches and
feet. The rest of the world has gone metric long time ago, and all the
Ikea global products are in metric. 13 3/4 is really 35 cm wide. So,
when you buy any of the Kassett storage boxes, and you need more labels
for them, they are 3 cm x 6 cm, not some strange measurements.”
PK has kindly made a PDF for Kassett box labels for download here.
Visit his blog.
“I bet they don’t even know it. Last weekend I took my son to Ikea to
play on the childrens furniture and eat cheap hotdogs. Actually it was
to pick up a shoe rack that was on sale, but what I found was even
more exciting. I’ve been wanting a turntable for working on my bonsai
for ages and here I find a perfectly suitable substitute at Ikea in the
form of a small lazy-susan for under 10 bucks. Sweet.”
Image: Bockmanca @ FLICKR
© All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Stebbi in Atlanta, GA. is starting ‘em young!
“Building Thor a desk”
Photo By Stebbi @ IKEA Lovers/FLICKR
© All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Here’s a cool IKEA desk mod from Theron Parlin:
“For a long time, I have been annoyed at my big old PC case. It’s big,
it’s black, it’s not pretty in a living room. I used to live in a small student
apartment, so it wasn’t a big issue. But next month, I will be moving into a
small house, so I want to make things look better. As the PC will be in the
living room, I want to get rid of the big PC case. The answer is IKEA, and
chopping up the old case.
I bought this nice cheap desk “Jonas” from
IKEA. It’s simple, it’s “clean”, and the drawer/cupboard is more than big enough
for my computer parts. Buying it IKEA-style, meaning that I get it in parts, is
a big bonus for my project. It means I can cut the wood etc., before I assemble
the desk.
Theron Parlin
Visit his blog, “Travelling the wrong way on the cluetrain”
Lily sent us this link to an MSN blog. Looks like somebody in the Far East assembled herself a nice bedroom:
“After carefully considering all of your comments, I finally got myC. Merrill
Visit NORTH.
