Hackin’ the Lack into a rustic coffee table

Items Used: LACK, IKEA Coffee Table

Steps to hack a rustic coffee table

Measured original table top.

Bought one (1) 12″x 8′ knotty pine.

Cut to size.

Sanded, stained and sealed pieces (one (1) side and edges.)

Joined with pocket holes every 6″ (roughly).

Drilled pilot holes on all four (4) corners (I placed the IKEA top on top of the backside of my new top, inserted a 2″ nail and hammered to mark where my screws go).

Since the IKEA hardware for this is a weird double ended screw, I wasn’t able to get it in very far by hand. So I inserted one end of the IKEA screw into the end of my drill and tightened the chuck like I would a bit. I slowly screwed it into the table top until it was half way.

Screwed the legs on and follows the remaining instructions from the assembly manual.

~ by Nicole Baglieri

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You may also like these ideas on rustic coffee tables:

- Another version of the LACK rustic coffee table

- Bed slats turned into a coffee table with storage.

- Farmhouse styled KLUBBO coffee table.

- Rustic Industrial with pipes and bamboo.

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Hackers Help: Chalkboard paint on drawer fronts?

I have purchased the Nordli 12 drawer chest. I am wanting to put chalkboard paint on the drawer fronts only. I’ve done this to a previous all wood dresser, but I am not sure on the steps to take on a brand new piece from IKEA. Does it still need to be sanded a bit first? Or can I just apply the chalkboard paint right on top? Thank you for any advice!

~ by Maranda

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Our Patriotic Front Porch + Front Yard Planning

Just dropping in with a quick little patriotic update out front and some future yard plans. We’re no strangers to decorating in reds, whites, and blues outside, and the good news is that the back of our house isn’t having all the fun anymore. That’s right, the purchase of a $25 flag has me grinning every time we come home to it (and it only took us two tries to get it right – ha!). The funny thing is that when we moved into our house there was an old flag holder in a similar spot… but we were about to repaint everything from cream to white so we removed it. And then, well, the house was flag-less for the last four years.

Fast forward to me dragging our red adirondak chairs to the front yard (they’re super functional for when the kids play out front) and eventually adding the blue garden stool between them (it tied the chairs into the front door color nicely). As soon as that was plopped down John and I basically looked at each other and said in unison: let’s get a flag!

Perhaps we were a little over-excited because we ran to Home Depot and purchased the biggest flag and pole that they had, thinking it would look bold and fun out front. But when we got it home and held it up…. it looked gigantic. Like one of those car dealership flags. Literally, my friend came by and laughed so hard that now she snaps pictures of enormous flags and texts them to me saying “look, it’s your flag!”

So back to the store we went, and this time we grabbed a more moderately sized one (2.5′ x 4′) with a smaller pole, and WOOT, it’s perfect.

I think our newly-awakened enthusiasm for patriotic front porches can be traced back to a quick stop we made in Cape Charles over Memorial Day when we were checking in on our beach house. How lovely is this old beauty with that giant front porch?! Those buntings hanging from the railing are so cute (here’s something similar if you have an amazing porch like this to deck out – wait, here it’s two for that price).

This house is also one of my favorites, thanks to the bold siding color and the teal steps and porch floor. It’s such a sweet town full of playful and bright houses you guys. I want to buy them all.*

*John said no

We also love this sweet shingled beauty with a nice big flag out front (along with those cute little ones stuck into the flower pots). It’s tempting me to add some smaller flags to the potted ferns on either side of our front door.

So if you’re wondering where we’ll be on a nice evening while the kids catch fireflies or chase a ball around, there’s a fairly good chance we’ll be sitting right here. Hopefully with an ice-cold refreshment on that little blue side table.

Note about the chair placement: due to marital debates (John not wanting the chairs in the grass because it would be annoying to move them to mow – which is something he does frequently) we plopped them right there in the mulch, but eventually we might make them a little paver patio spot or do some pea gravel under them or something. We also dream of someday creating a big stone or brick landing at the bottom of the stairs, sort of like these – which would be such a sweet place for chairs or benches eventually.

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So along with wanting to rip the deck off the house, now I also want to jackhammer the old walkway and get to work on a front patio. As you can imagine, John is thrilled (just kidding, he’s still recovering from the whole irrigation thing).

Anywayyyyy, I’ll work on him ;)

In the meantime, remember that when you’re thinking about working in some red, white, and blue stuff outside, the fun doesn’t have to stop after the Fourth of July. In fact, our back porch has had red, white, and blue going on for years! (here are the sources for everything in this space)

So if you’re looking to jump on the red, white, and blue train with me, here ya go:

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15

My favorites are those woven chairs (#2) even though they’re not red, white, or blue because they’d look awesome with a red and white striped pillow on them (#1) and I also LOVE the blue umbrella (#13) – we have a similar one on our back deck and it’s awesome. I’m also FEELING that trio of planters (#4) – don’t those designs look like little fireworks?! LOVE. Also, those red white & blue string lights (#5) are awesome and I can’t get enough of that little red grill (#11) or the blue drink dispenser (#8). In summary: GIMME ALL OF THE RED, WHITE, AND BLUE THINGS.

Psst – Want more? You can see a bunch of other holiday-related updates and projects that we’ve shared (like this watermelon carving from back in 2009). 

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Long TV stand from IKEA Stolmen

When moving to a new flat often some (all) things change. “I have all furniture I need” mostly costs around 1k Euro….

I had a black Stolmen with black topping for years and wanted things a bit brighter in my new flat. So I searched eBay for the old Stolmen …

I ended up lucky with enough parts to build this TV Stand, a wardrobe and a cat scratching post and tree.

Here we used one wide and two narrow Stolmen drawers. The frame is built from wooden counter tops which I did not buy from IKEA. To keep things movable the drawers are only screwed tho the frame. And the frame itself is also only held together by wooden lamella anchors. But the top countertop is heavy enough to keep things in place.

To bring the TV stand up a bit from the ground we screwed two old wardrobe doors from IKEA I had left over underneath it.

The hack was build by my sister and my brother-in-law.

~ Thomas, Germany

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Other ways to build a TV stand with IKEA STOLMEN

- Hang it for a floating effect

- Mount a projector for the at-home-cinema experience

- With poles apart for your flat TV

- Industrial style with plenty of storage

- As a multimedia rack

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Audio Production Workstation with pull-out MIDI keyboard

IKEA items used:

• 1X KLIMPEN Table top, 47 1/4×23 5/8 “
• 1X LINNMON Table top, 47 1/4×23 5/8 “
• 2 packs of 2X CAPITA brackets
• 4x OLOV adjustable table leg
• 1x SIGNUM cable management

NON-IKEA items used:

• 2x 18” full extension drawer slides (from my local hardware store)
• Industrial strength sticky back Velcro (from my local hardware store)
• Fellowes Designer Suites™ Compact Keyboard Tray (from Amazon)
• Duramex Economy Dual Monitor Arms Fully Adjustable Desk Mount / Articulating Stand For 2 LCD Screens up to 32” Inch (from Amazon)

Here’s how to put together an Audio Production Workstation:

The desk I had wasn’t really working for me anymore, so I decided to donate it and start anew.

I wanted to paint the KLIMPEN tabletop and the Capita brackets black before I started, but I didn’t have enough time so I decided against doing it now, however, when I move, I will probably paint them before reassembling the desk for a more uniform look.

First of all, I assembled the OLOV legs with the KLIMPEN table top. While the underside of the desk was still facing up, I installed the Fellowes keyboard tray and the Signum cable management. Here is a picture I took just before installing the cable management unit.

Then, I flipped the desk over and screwed the drawer slides to the top of the desk. I had to measure so that they would be centered and at the ideal distance to support my midi keyboard properly, so depending on which device you are trying to support, you should measure accordingly.

Then, I put the hooks and loops of the velcro strips together and removed the sticky backing on both sides. I then put the Velcro strips on top of the drawer slides.

Next, I made sure my midi keyboard was centered and I put it on top of the slides. Then I made sure the sticky backing would actually stick to my keyboard to hold it in place, which it did.

Then, I assembled the CAPITA brackets under the LINNMON table top. I made sure the brackets would point inwards so that I could screw them easily into the KLIMPEN desk.

Next. I placed the LINNMON/CAPITA table on top of the KLIMPEN table, made sure all the edges were equal and level, and traced around the CAPITA brackets on the KLIMPEN table to have a guide to drill the holes required for permanent mounting.

Then, I marked the center of each oval. That is the drill guide.

Next, I drilled the 4 holes for the CAPITA brackets in the KLIMPEN table top.

Then, after cleaning up, I mounted the top table on the bottom table according to the CAPITA instructions. After that, I installed the monitor arm on the LINNMON table top.

This is the final result with all of my devices installed:

If I had real studio monitors, which will happen eventually, the clearance under my screens would allow for the speakers to rest sideways without being obstructed. But for now, this works just fine.

~ by Marie-Audrée Houle

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#53: The Curveball That Blew Our Beach House Timeline

Sherry has taken on a new side job that I’m steering clear of, and – spoiler alert – it has already given her a good excuse to go shopping. Plus, we’ve missed our goal of being able to spend a night at the beach house by the start of summer, and it’s all due to something we never could’ve anticipated (or prevented). We also find out which design trends most people are ready to be done with (shiplap? succulents? decorative poufs? *gasp!*) and you’ll hear what annoying outdoor to-do list item I checked off my list for Father’s Day. And – oh, look! A deer!

You can download this episode from Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Overcast, and TuneIn Radio – or listen to it below! Then use this page to check out any links, notes, or photos we referenced. Note: If you’re reading in a feed reader, you might have to click through to the post to see the player. 

What’s New

• Above is an after photo of the house Sherry “lightly staged” (no big furniture changes – just paring down, rearranging, simplifying, and adding some pillows/art/accessories). As you can tell from the before picture below, this room’s transformation was mostly thanks to removing all of the distracting personal stuff so potential buyers could really see the bones of the house. And you know Sherry loves adding a pitcher and a few vases full of yard clippings for fast & free greenery. Simple changes but such a difference, right?

• And the good news is that the house got multiple offers within a day of being listed. And as you may have guessed, Sherry ran around the house shouting “sssssssold!” with her hands on her cheeks (much like Kevin McAlister in Home Alone).
• You can hear more about Sherry’s staging adventures in Episode #41, which involved a few bigger DIY projects to prepare our friend’s house to sell.
• We also popped over to the beach house last week to check on things. There’s not much to show for it, but here’s what it’s looking like these days (at least the outside is a whole lot more finished looking than the inside):

• And since we didn’t get a picture of that fawn – here’s one from a couple of years ago instead. So cute. So hungry.

What Home Decor Trend Has To Go?

• If you wanna weigh in on several head-to-head trend battles, you can still cast your vote over on the Buzzfeed poll we referenced.

• And as promised, here are those “fancy cheese boards” that are stalking Sherry on Facebook (you click something ONE TIME and Facebook #cantstopwontstop). 1 /2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8

Can We Just Talk About…

• Here’s an example of the alarmist stories about Fixer Upper being partially “faked” that we’ve been seeing in our feeds. Please note that the detail that the whistleblower was a model was so important that it made it into the headline.
• We had trouble being shocked, especially since revelations like this about House Hunters go waaaay back to 2012
• Even back then Julia, the blogger behind that post, was stunned by everyone’s surprise – and how the news went viral (so much so that HGTV responded in this follow-up post)
• Last year HGTV even got in on the joke with this spoof video that takes you inside the House Hunter’s Writers Room: “Do you ‘oooh’ at a foyer? I feel like that’s more of a kitchen sound.”
• And to Sherry’s point about the furniture not always staying with the Fixer Upper homeowners, Katie Bower has done a couple of posts comparing the show’s “after” photos to what the homes later look like on rental listings.
• Oh, and as for Cash Cab, here’s a quick recap (apparently some people are really surprised!) but here’s a more in-depth story of it being more set-up than we’d like to believe.

We’re Digging

• Above are some of the Ikea products that we’re happy to see on Amazon (heads up: prices are sometimes higher than what you’d find in Ikea stores, so this is really best used when it’s not easy to get to an Ikea in person): 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13* / 14 / 15
  • *Meatball sauce not to scale (ok, neither is anything else)
• Since I can’t link to mulch, I’ll link to the old post about the first time we mulched this yard. Exciting!
• And I can show you how the delivery guy somehow misinterpreted my instruction to dump the mulch “where you always do, in the big mulch bed where the orange flags are” this year. So instead it got dumped about 15 feet in front of the flags, right onto the grass. Awesome.

If you’re looking for something we’ve dug in a past episode, but don’t remember which show notes to click into, here’s a master list of everything we’ve been digging from all of our past episodes.

And lastly, a big thank you to Delta for sponsoring this episode. You can check out the all of Delta Faucet’s products and innovations (including the inspiration and sketches behind their Cassidy line) at DeltaFaucet.com/YHL.

Thanks for listening, guys!

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