A site that’s apparently been around for a while that I’ve just been turned onto in a big way is the fine Ikea Hacker. From showing me a great way to make a bolted-on-desk headphone stand using a couple dozen dollars in parts that you can easily order from Ikea online to ways to use some of Ikea’s kitchen implements as coat hangers, Ikea Hacker can show you how to take the goodies you might get from one happy afternoon shopping at Ikea and turn them into something completely different from their intended purpose.

It’s glorious crafty-hacking, and it’s great – you can even see where you might be able to take the ideas a step further and create your own materials out of the stuff you see used! Maybe you an use Ikea like a hardware store for raw materials, or even cut them out entirely? Good idea maybe, but I know I love a good trip to Ikea, so I’m not complaining.

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