IKEA Hacks Part 1
IKEA Hacking is a fairly small trend that goes on in the home improvement sector. What it usually entails is a think-outside-the-box modification to certain appliances that they sell. Not surprisingly, the simplest hacks can be the most effective.
Aside from a model railroading project I have been planning, I am also intending to do something I call Game Night Readiness. (A pun of A380 ready, which only select airports are, it's like making my house ready for a breed of people)
My room has been plagued with considerably obsolete furniture for quite some time, and it wasn't until Winter 2009-2010 that the first changes started rooting. My computer (laptop) and most of what I did happened downstairs at the time, and I finally moved up by June 2010. By December the second change gracefully happened as this fine 1920x1080 desktop came aboard, and now that I have witnessed a Game Night, I felt like I wanted to chip in my own cash.
Most if not all of the items here have been purchased from IKEA. Hence hacks to them are simply "IKEA Hacks".
And so I arrive to today, October 4, 2011, and my new IKEA Kramare Lamp. The Kramare Lamp, little to my knowledge, is a ceiling lamp. I had contemplated returning it until basic 10th grade Physics kicked in and the electric wires would be known to be transferable to a 110V wall plug. Simple wiring and aesthetic cleanup of the joints will make a presentable lamp unit.
The ceiling lamp cost 25 USD; having three wall lamps would be 30 USD. A plug runs anywhere in the neighborhood of 2 USD, so I save 3 bucks, not much, but still practice for a model railroad project that would happen anyway. MRR includes wiring and I may end up needing to do this sort of a connection anyway, so it's a winning situation for sure.
So in closing this is a simple hack that I wanted to share. It does go a long way; a long chain lamp over a LEGO work table is such a great thing.
Expect me to go more in depth of these hacks.
Aside from a model railroading project I have been planning, I am also intending to do something I call Game Night Readiness. (A pun of A380 ready, which only select airports are, it's like making my house ready for a breed of people)
My room has been plagued with considerably obsolete furniture for quite some time, and it wasn't until Winter 2009-2010 that the first changes started rooting. My computer (laptop) and most of what I did happened downstairs at the time, and I finally moved up by June 2010. By December the second change gracefully happened as this fine 1920x1080 desktop came aboard, and now that I have witnessed a Game Night, I felt like I wanted to chip in my own cash.
Most if not all of the items here have been purchased from IKEA. Hence hacks to them are simply "IKEA Hacks".
And so I arrive to today, October 4, 2011, and my new IKEA Kramare Lamp. The Kramare Lamp, little to my knowledge, is a ceiling lamp. I had contemplated returning it until basic 10th grade Physics kicked in and the electric wires would be known to be transferable to a 110V wall plug. Simple wiring and aesthetic cleanup of the joints will make a presentable lamp unit.
The ceiling lamp cost 25 USD; having three wall lamps would be 30 USD. A plug runs anywhere in the neighborhood of 2 USD, so I save 3 bucks, not much, but still practice for a model railroad project that would happen anyway. MRR includes wiring and I may end up needing to do this sort of a connection anyway, so it's a winning situation for sure.
So in closing this is a simple hack that I wanted to share. It does go a long way; a long chain lamp over a LEGO work table is such a great thing.
Expect me to go more in depth of these hacks.
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