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Ikea was inside us all along!
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Their solid wood countertops used to be such a great deal and a good place to start for making quick and easy furniture. I used to buy their solid wood counter tops, made various styles of desks out of them and sell them on Craigslist.
Then solid wood prices sky rocketed and I’m unsure they even sell solid anymore.
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I built the Device with an Ikea-like aesthetic - and it can be assembled and disassembled easily with an Allen wrench (well, an Allen wrench on a power drill).
Oh, and, anyone remember “semi-disposable Swedish furniture”?
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Remember good ol’ https://ikeahackers.net/ ? Last time I thought about it was the news about how they almost got shut down in a trademark dispute. (I thought that was big news on BB at the time, but can’t seem to find the article?)
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/home/interiors/how-ikea-learned-to-love-ikea-hacks-almost-as-much-as-we-do/news-story/8f03b2779d6807315763ef56b0cd6fda
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I had a desk like this in college. Slightly warped door sold at a clearance price and a couple stacks of cinder blocks from the Home Depot. That was a perfectly usable and cheap desk. (I wouldn’t want to put anything very heavy midspan though)
For the last … 25 years? I’ve been using a Jerker for a desk. Ikea never should have stopped selling these.
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Ikea’s furniture are the friends we make along the way.
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Does Ikea sell personal products too?
My furniture all seems okay, but I need something to stop my skin from SÅGGEN.
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