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One of my pieces made it onto the Ikea Hackers site last week.

It's a couple "Besta" storage units that we use as a credenza. The sofa is 10' long, so it was tough to figure out what to use behind it for storage that wouldn't seem too narrow. I modify everything, so of course I had to do something with it... I edge lit the glass doors and made it into a sort of light box. The graphics can be changed out too. I printed several different semi-translucent images so they can be switched out if we want to change up the style or color scheme in the living room. Right now it's just a dark rainy night street scene.

http://www.ikeahackers.net/2013/07/besta-light-box.html



It's not 100% perfect, but that's how you know I made it

Anyone else modify or repurpose Ikea stuff, or anything else cool??

Nice work , like the idea I didn't modify, but my wife found this 1957 Kuba Imperial stereo cabinet...which became a bar, and then I painted the wall behind it for contrast.

Really cool! I've always wanted to find a vintage stereo cabinet and put modern equipment in it. A bar is a good idea too though!!

Charlie don't surf wrote:Nice work , like the idea I didn't modify, but my wife found this 1957 Kuba Imperial stereo cabinet...which became a bar, and then I painted the wall behind it for contrast.

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Yeah, she did a really nice job on that! Seen it myself in person, but have yet to see any liquor out of it Maybe next time.

You guys have a lot of cool items in your house though. I'm sure you've caught me looking around like one of the kids lol.

vintage AE wrote:

Charlie don't surf wrote:Nice work , like the idea I didn't modify, but my wife found this 1957 Kuba Imperial stereo cabinet...which became a bar, and then I painted the wall behind it for contrast.

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Yeah, she did a really nice job on that! Seen it myself in person, but have yet to see any liquor out of it Maybe next time.

You guys have a lot of cool items in your house though. I'm sure you've caught me looking around like one of the kids lol.

Next time, you'll have to hang out longer then!

Really cool guys, both very creative ideas!

flipwils11 wrote:Really cool guys, both very creative ideas!

I agree!, very cool, and with Reg's, very 1950's, but a hint of what the not to distant future would look like...(for a 1950's point of view) . Love Em both

Very cool. Well done

I previously had a 1 meter blue lighting strip hidden behind an I-beam in my kitchen diner. It was so simple yet looked amazing at night.

Great work! I love this stuff!