I showed this to Rebecca this morning before she left for work, and she asked me where I had discovered Ikea Hacker. For the life of me, I cannot remember. I’ve been reading it for the past few months, enjoying the neat creations that people have cobbled together to make there own breed of Swedish furniture. It’s something I am really curious about doing myself, but even I scare myself with the possible monstrosities I could create.
It was this recent post that came through to me this morning that really peaked my love for this blog. Take an Ikea desk, computers, throw some cable management at it, and holy crap is my mind full of ideas now. That’s the brilliance of this site. My courage is getting stronger to try something crazy myself.
True that some of the posts are nothing spectacular, but I can always use some sources of inspiration to get me going again. The desktop PC of Rebecca’s sits on this little Ikea workstation that we got from some of our good friends. They were pretty impressed when I mounted our network router underneath the bottom shelf with some twist-ties. Now I have all sorts of ideas. Just need more ties.
John, check out this similar post on Lifehacker dealing with the same desk:
http://lifehacker.com/software/cord-management/cordless-workspace-redux-the-gina-edition-239904.php
While not as DIY as the Ikea hacker approach, it works great as it’s what I did with my Jerker desk.
That’s brilliant as well. Thanks for the link, John!
Ikea Hacker is a really fun site to watch for the wild crafty stuff people come up with. That particular example of the cord management, however, as your first commenter mentioned, is very often brought up at Lifehacker. You could probably search the site for it.