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Upgrading an IKEA Metal Cabinet with Wood

Upgrading an IKEA Metal Cabinet with Wood

IKEA furniture is perfectly functional but basic by design. Dave from Make Something shows us how he took a $150 IKEA KOLBJÖRN metal cabinet and transformed it into a high-end piece of designer furniture by wrapping and embellishing it with wood. He also improved its versatility by adding a top shelf and a removable serving tray.

Building a Guitar from IKEA Furniture

Building a Guitar from IKEA Furniture

You can find all sorts of great household items and furniture at IKEA. But if you ignore the assembly instructions and make up your own, it’s possible to hack together stuff that’s not in their catalog. Tchiks guitars shows us how he used wood from various things from IKEA and turned them into a great-sounding electric guitar.

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IKEA Wood Lamp Upgrade

IKEA Wood Lamp Upgrade

There’s a whole community dedicated to hacking IKEA products to make them look better or more useful. In this video from Woodboy, he shows us how he turned a cheap IKEA desk lamp into something that looks like it came from a high-end lighting store. All that remains from the original is the LED light bar and wiring though.

IKEA Flamträd 3D-Printed Accessories

IKEA Flamträd 3D-Printed Accessories

IKEA is now making home accessories using a 3D printing technique known as selective laser sintering. The collection includes wireframe models of heads and hands, which can be hung on the wall or placed on a tabletop. They’re currently only available from IKEA Germany, but we hope to see them elsewhere soon.

IKEA Knorva Hat

IKEA Knorva Hat
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Celebrate your love for Swedish home furnishings (and Swedish meatball) store IKEA with this playful bucket hat, made from the same woven polypropylene fabric used in their indestructible blue Frakta shopping bags. One size fits all.

IKEA: The Hare

IKEA: The Hare

Created by Mother, this spot for IKEA offers a modern take on the classic fable The Hare and the Tortoise. In this version, the bunny spends his nights out partying with friends, while the turtle gets a good night’s sleep in his IKEA bedding. Stellar creature FX from Robert Allsopp and VFX by 1920 helped bring the characters to life.

IKEA Furniture Forts

IKEA Furniture Forts

If there’s one thing that’s consistent across the globe these days, it’s that kids are in need of things to do at home. To help with this mission, IKEA Russia has offered up a series of six fun DIY furniture forts which can be built using various IKEA furniture and accessories. We might just have to make that octopus chandelier.

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IKEA Frekvens Collection

IKEA Frekvens Collection

IKEA teamed up with synth and design house Teenage Engineering to create a limited collection to turn any space into a dance party. It includes modular LED spotlights and dot-matrix lights, speakers and subwoofers, furniture, tiki cups, and even a cajón drum to get the beat going. They also created some 3D-printable hacks.

IKEA Gunrid Curtain

IKEA Gunrid Curtain

IKEA’s innovative curtain has a mineral-based coating that is activated by both indoor and outdoor light. When activated, it breaks down odor-causing compounds as well as formaldehyde. The coating can be applied to different kinds of textiles. Available in 2020.

IKEA SPÄNST Collection

IKEA SPÄNST Collection

Designed in collaboration with Stampd founder Chris Stamp, IKEA’s SPÄNST is a collection of home goods for active urban residents. Dominated by black and white and thin lines, some standouts include LED sticks, a shoe/skateboard rack, and a skateboard.

IKEA Chairplane

IKEA Chairplane

The guys from YouTube channel FliteTest love to make all kinds of crazy R/C flying machines, and their latest build is a doozie. They managed to convert a wooden chair from IKEA into an airplane that reliably flies. Lift-off at 7:13.

IKEA Eneby Bluetooth Speaker

IKEA Eneby Bluetooth Speaker
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Now you don’t have to pay through the nose for beautiful and versatile Bluetooth speakers. Available in two sizes, the Eneby can be displayed freestanding, mounted on a wall or elevated with the optional stand. The small version also has a built-in handle.

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IKEA Place Augmented Reality App

IKEA Place Augmented Reality App

IKEA’s Place is a new app that takes advantage of iOS 11’s exclusive augmented reality features. Scan a space, then browse for furniture. Your chosen product will pop up on your iOS device’s screen, accurately scaled to your room. You can even go around and zoom in on the furniture.

IKEA Home Solar Energy

IKEA Home Solar Energy

IKEA teamed up with Solarcentury to start selling and installing solar panels and batteries in homes in the UK. Prices start at around $3900. Customers will save up to $450 per year with just the solar panels, and up to $730 when paired with batteries.

IKEA Death Star Lamp

IKEA Death Star Lamp

Instructables contributor MariaK64 shows us how to transform a IKEA PS 2014 pendant lamp into an exploding Death Star with nothing more than paint, masking tape, and some artistic skill. But instead of firing at the exhaust port, simply pull the cord to blow it to bits.

IKEA: My Way

IKEA: My Way

A funny commercial for IKEA Italy that shirks the homogeneity of most ad spots, and suggests that we not only let our freak flags fly, but that we use IKEA’s products in unconventional ways. They should start selling that tennis racket spaghetti strainer – and call it NÜDLL.

IKEA: Let’s Relax

IKEA: Let’s Relax

IKEA’s satirical commercial takes some time to develop, but you’ll get what it’s trying to say soon enough. The thing is, if we could paint something that good that fast, we’d probably share it with everyone too.

Get Cheras to Cheras

Get Cheras to Cheras

“Put your Hemnes in the air, Kaustby got all day.” Ikea promotes the upcoming opening of its outlet in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with this so-bad-it’s-good jingle filled with puns based on the shop’s product names.

IKEA Catalog Literary Review

IKEA Catalog Literary Review

“Happiness is a super comfy sofa bed, a few side tables and a strong Wi-Fi connection.” IKEA’s catalog is the world’s most widely distributed book. Literary critic Hellmuth Karasek gave the latest edition a tongue-in-cheek review.

IKEA x The Shining

IKEA x The Shining

IKEA Singapore pays tribute to Stanley Kubrick’s classic horror film The Shining, following a child on his tricycle as he winds his way through the store. This confirms what we already knew – shopping at IKEA can be the stuff of nightmares.

IKEA Regissör

IKEA Regissör

The IKEA Regissör line consists of flat-pack furniture that can be assembled quickly and without using tools, thanks to pre-installed wooden wedge dowels. They are also lightweight and use less materials. Turn captions on.

IKEA: The Power of a Bookbook

IKEA: The Power of a Bookbook

IKEA’s 2015 catalogue can be yours as a book. No, not an e-book; an actual book. A bookbook. It’s completely wireless and never runs out of battery. We should archive this video for future reference.

Alfonso Cuarón’s “IKEA”

Alfonso Cuarón’s “IKEA”

Daniel Hubbard created this parody of the space epic Gravity, in which the unrelenting, disorienting blackness of space is replaced with the unrelenting, disorienting blue and yellow of Sweden’s mega store. And meatballs.

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