Hacking IKEA Furniture
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Hacking IKEA Furniture
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#2IKEA furniture is great for small adjustments to fit your needs. Not costing a fortune also makes it easier to experiment with it.
Since they're so common, it's easy to find CAD drawings for most of them.
I did a small hack/conversion on a Billy closet to hide some pipes in our apartment.
https://vanderwalt.de/blog/customizing-ikea-billy-to-hide-pi...
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#3The low cost makes it perfect for diy as for an amateur you know that you have the safety to be able to easily buy a new unit if you screw up.
Looking into ideas, I was a little bit disappointed to not find community website of people sharing ideas, experiences and results around such hacking.
Re: Hacking IKEA Furniture
#4The low cost makes it perfect for diy as for an amateur you know that you have the safety to be able to easily buy a new unit if you screw up. Looking into ideas, I was a little bit disappointed to not find community website of people sharing ideas, experiences and results around such hacking.
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#5I used to spend hours pouring over the https://ikeahackers.net/ site - but never actually hacked much of our furniture (no more than adjusting the height, or changing handles/worktops).
As cheap as Ikea was, being in London in my 20s just as Freecycle started, meant we ended up with a lot 'vintage' furniture for free or next to nothing - some we still have now.
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#6The low cost makes it perfect for diy as for an amateur you know that you have the safety to be able to easily buy a new unit if you screw up. Looking into ideas, I was a little bit disappointed to not find community website of people sharing ideas, experiences and results around such hacking.
There’s https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack>
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#7I was thinking along the lines of Ikea-style furniture from scratch. Most local hardware stores carry these giant CNC routers, and the technicians there can cut particle board sheets to requirements.
How cool would it be if they offered a simplified furniture CAD program, where you could choose what material you need how many shelves of what size, etc and it would generate the needed program that would drill the required holes, and would tell you what size of screws and pins and dowels you need to pick up.
I definitely would use something like that, instead of trying to cut preexisting furniture to size.
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#8IKEA furniture is great for small adjustments to fit your needs. Not costing a fortune also makes it easier to experiment with it. Since they're so common, it's easy to find CAD drawings for most of them. I did a small hack/conversion on a Billy closet to hide some pipes in our apartment. https://vanderwalt.de/blog/customizing-ikea-billy-to-hide-pi...
This look lovely and probably felt extremely satisfying once everything was said and done.
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#9"Hacking" when used in the context of furniture actually means breaking it with an axe.
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#10"Hacking" when used in the context of furniture actually means breaking it with an axe.
What’s the distinction between hacking, whacking, and chopping? And how can we incorporate these terms into tech?