Martin Cooper

It's time for our favorite blog post of the year; the Top 20 Home Inspection Photos. These photos were all featured on our Facebook page over the past year. Enjoy.

I’ve been looking so long for the perfect wall mounted TV cabinet. It has to meet quite a few requirements: hanging for a spatial effect, lots of storage options (for all game devices, our stock of candles, etc.) It had to fit my interior and, of course, look nice! So much choice Nowadays there are so many nice shops with beautiful furniture to choose from. IKEA also offers many possibilities. Among the ready-made furniture , I did not find one that met my requirements. The well-known BESTÅ furniture from IKEA came close, but it was not entirely complete either. The solution Until my sister came up with the solution. She was also looking for a research piece of furniture (but not as a television piece of furniture). She found it in IKEA’s kitchen cabinets . After some calculations and puzzle solving, we succeeded in making our perfect wall mounted TV cabinet. What does the furniture consist of? The furniture actually consists of kitchen wall cabinets from IKEA. The drawer...

Read on for my favourite IKEA ideas of the year . My list for the IKEA Hack of the Year 2019 has been announced. Did you manage to catch it? If not, here is the link . With the big ones out of the way, let’s not forget to celebrate the simpler ideas on IKEAhackers. I call them “ Ideas ” (which is probably not the best term to use). They are simpler, easier hacks and could involve a repurposing or embellishment. In plain speak, anything that makes you go, “Hmm, that’s a good idea.” So, let’s get on with it. May I present, in no particular order, the … Top 10 IKEA Ideas of 2019 #1 Drawer latch for MAXIMERA drawers Eric made a drawer latch that allows the  IKEA MAXIMERA  internal drawer to be pulled out together with the exterior drawer front. (Instead of pulling out the external drawer and then the internal drawer.) There are some ready made latches but none from IKEA yet. It’s a simple mechanism and perhaps, not for everyone, but very useful if you prefer accessing t...

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It’s here! The annual list of my top 10 favourite IKEA hacks of the year . 2019 has been a challenging year for blogs. Some well-known blogs ended their run, most notably, Design Sponge , which was one of my go-to design blogs for like ever. I do miss the space Grace and her team filled. Social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook are stronger than ever and much of traffic has migrated there. And IKEAhackers has seen that move too. IH Instagram following grew considerably, from about 10,000 followers two years ago to now, over 78,000 when I started upping my Gram game. Definitely, things are shifting. But in case you think this is getting sombre, in the words of the late Ingvar Kamprad , “Most things still remain to be done. A glorious future!” The IKEA hacking spirit is alive and well, no matter what platform it appears on. And again, as we reach the end of the year, let’s celebrate the creativity and effort that went into each and every hack, no matter big or small....

Still scrambling for decor and gift wrap? A coat stand tree and IKEA Gift Card tags to the rescue. Hello there, Christmas is happening in 5 days. This year, I’ll be making my way down south as the whole gang will be celebrating in Singapore ! The Lion City is always phenomenal this time of the year, a little island filled with wonder. As such, I’ll take a break from IKEAhackers till the New Year comes around. Nevertheless, I’ve scheduled a few awesome posts for the coming week, in particular our annual HOTY . Watch out for it. Before I sign off, let me thank you for continuing to visit IKEAhackers. Every visit, submission and comment makes a difference and keeps me going, doing what I love. I’ll leave you with two quick hacks for the season — a quick “alternative tree” from Penny and an IKEA gift card tag from Emma. Print out and make an envelope or gift tag for the most last minute gift you can possibly give — the IKEA Gift Card. ( Get it online here .) xoxo, Jules IKEA KN...

IKEA introduced its own pegboard system, SKÅDIS, two years ago and I’d say it’s one of the best systems IKEA launched in recent years. I love how super customisable it is, with a growing range of accessories that help keep things organized. It works everywhere, in your wardrobe to bathroom . Probably anywhere you have a flat surface to hang it up. Photo: IKEA.com SKÅDIS pegboard system See it on IKEA.com But no matter how perfect a system, you can trust IKEA hackers to improve on the SKÅDIS. And they’ve settle these 5 issues you may have faced with the handy IKEA pegboard. Read on for their fixes. 5 IKEA SKÅDIS issues and fixes #1 Expensive hooks? You’ll need quite a number of hooks and accessories to fill up the SKÅDIS pegboard, and Kenyer was shocked at how quickly they all added up. So he figured he could make his own hooks to save cost. Photo: Kenyer Over at Instructables , he shows us how to twist copper wires into the SKÅDIS hook shape. It works s...