Saturday, June 14, 2008

Re-post: Hacking Ikea for a Cool Kids Bedroom.

Note: This is a re-post out last year of the project where we shredded to an Ikea bunkbed and off her into double line beds in order to save time in the small bedroom our boys share. I’ve true enough questions in the comments to it tell that You say You must grow a little on it. The one of this post has non qualified, unless You have uploaded new pictures in a descriptions to the new GeekDad Flickr Group, which hope soon helping people who want to try and replicate this project. I’m not providing a detailed DIY plan, for every time is different, and all of them has in making this to a level as to cover that you’re enough to.


What see i have but i have the finest by popular Swedish furniture, a pound, hardware, paint, and a little Geekdad and Geekfamily imagination? A fun, fit place for brothers living in the same house together.

When we moved into our stereotypical three-bedroom, 1960s-built California ranch-style home team years ago, every an opportunity to the business required a kind of updating. For both my wife and You have jobs where we need to have a chance play ball show a bedroom became a home office, and because the boys are yet young enough non in take any particular space, we set himself to the second chamber together, with an Ikea bunk-bed and a two other small pieces about things in give it away until our remodeling frenzy was finished.

When we got to their room, the mission was clear: do something on a small quantity that assuming an, space-saving, and fun. If we were in order to get more beds as i, power of the provisions would be exhausted right away, so we tried to do our first to recycle what we had:


Once we started taking the sturdy, metal-framed love alone, we known it was quite hackable. In fact, we literally hacked him to a hacksaw! What is some of this bed is that the frames that the mattresses rest are dry rectangular pallets, different from the structure that makes it a bunk-bed. In less time in the room, we proved to be both bunks into top-bunks at lodge pole structures around the bed-frames, and elevating them 5 feet off the down to a body of 4″ x6″ ledgers bolted into the studs of the walls, and 3″ galvanized and threaded golden horn legs, screwed into the oak table in the appropriate flanges. This allowed us in paragraph desk and closet units underneath the beds, maximizing space.


The hacking part came on again we cut through the bunk-bed make even, easy-to-hacksaw aluminum, and re-used both side-railings of the heart beat, and 3 of the end-railings to cover.


The best thing that happened during the way back, though, was what became the best some of the setup. As we played with designs on paper, running nearly parallel cutouts in making the layout, we realized we had two choices in that position the beds. So i would form an L-shape, with the hand or foot on a bed in the point of the room where the two longest walls met, cross it would have only that made a square open-space in the corner. At first consideration, that another chance seemed so be a larger end of space, but then we started thought of what we could do with that space that would think things over do so the boys. And i do us:

Fireman’s Pole!!


For this, rather of the coarser galvanized pipe, we used a small open space on man pipe, held firmly at the floor and ceiling. We finished the whole feel at liberty to a wooden stepladder and a shared road to pass to the beds. For answer including taking off multiple layers on going Laura Ashley wallpaper and refinishing the floors, in water and construction, the project took 2 to 4 adults two weekends, and has given these boys a space they’ll use to a long time and soon think of forever.


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