Ikea Hacked Desk and Shelf "Hutch"
Small-space desks don’t always have all the storage our work spaces need. Get a little creative and build some extra storage into an Ikea-Hacked "hutch" shelf.
Ikea Hacker Jessica needed to find the perfect small-footprint, high-storage desk for her 45-inch wall space. Her and her husband settled on the Gustav writing desk for a perfect fit, but a lack of storage put a wrench in the plan.
With most wall-mounted shelf units at Ikea coming in too long or short to fit the desk, Goldilocks was forced to hack herself a perfect fit.
"We created a custom overhead unit from two 14" wide Billy cabinet extension units, four wooden extra shelves, two doors for the units and a couple of glass shelves. Since the extensions are intended to fit on top of a Billy bookshelf, they had no bottoms. We used two of the extra shelves to create bottoms, attaching them to the sides of the Billy using Kreg pocket screw joining. To make the cabinet exactly the right length we cut down the remaining two extra shelves and used them to create an open shelving space in the between the two cabinets."
We’re loving the creativity. And Jessica’s tale includes a lesson for all of us: When looking to add more storage to your desk, don’t always look under the desk—look up!
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Ikea store near Denver, Colorado – Construction update for 2010
You may be wondering what’s going on with IKEA in Colorado. I know I am. I was in Los Angeles for Thanksgiving this year and visited an IKEA out there and was reminded how nice it is to have high quality, reasonably priced household items within driving distance.
According to this article in the Denver Business Journal
"This is a very complicated project, and will take some time," said Joseph Roth, spokesman for IKEA Group’s U.S. headquarters near Philadelphia. "There’s still no time frame for groundbreaking or opening, but we are committed to the project and moving forward."
Once a construction timetable is fixed, the store will take 18 months to build, according to Roth.
That article is from October 16th, 2009 
It goes on:
IKEA is looking for architects, contractors and engineers to finalize plans for the store, Roth said. The retailer already has gotten all the approvals it needs from the City of Centennial and purchased its land.
So, they’ve got land and financing and approvals – but they’re still designing (architects) and need people to build it. Sounds like we won’t see this until the summer of 2011 at the earliest and probably later than that.
I wonder if IKEA is holding back on this development due to the economic slowdown. I think that if anything now is a great time for them to expand – their high value/low prices will make them a really compelling alternative to the traditional Colorado retailers.
Dare To Wear The Ikea Blue Bag Dress?
Like many of you, I’m trying to get beyond the industrialization and unvarying of living that is Ikea. I, like many of you, am an Ikea Hacker wannabe.
Wannabe because I’ll never reach the heights featured in the following story! I’d like you to meet Adriana, a teacher from the Parsons School of Design. Adriana has designed a halter dress from one of those infamous blue Ikea bags! (click through to discover the story and more images!)
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