July, 2009

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Ikea hack

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

A while ago, Maren introduced me to one of my new favorite blogs: ikea hacker. It’s basically about taking an item bought from ikea and disregarding the instructions completely, using one’s own creativity instead. I love it, I’ve gotten so many great ideas for my future house/apartment from it – my personal favorite is the desk turned dog bed :)

Anyway, I had a few spare hours to myself last week and headed out to ikea to snoop around. In addition to buying a tea set, clothes hangers, a picture frame and a little shelf that I still have no idea where to put, I got a toothbrush holder. Yes, a toothbrush holder! However, I never intended to use it for storing toothbrushes.

I repeat – there will be no storing of toothbrushes!

Are you curious yet? Good. Now, let’s go through this step by step!

1. Buy one “Lillholmen” toothbrush holder.

2. Nag boyfriend for half a week until he remembers to borrow a drill from work

3. Drill tiny holes in said “Lillholmen”.

4. Apply jewelry.

Congratulations, you just made an earring/ring stand!