In the corner of his tiny dining room, James built a compact tv console and mac mini desk. It does everything a workstation needs to, yet when closed, almost disappears into the wall. He used a Faktum wall cabinet with an Abstrakt door, both reduced in size, but still big enough to house the keyboard and all the cables.
Faktum wall cabinet, £27; Abstrakt door, £21, both Ikea
Michael Musser turned a Bonde bookcase on its side to create a neat sideboard. After looking at Ikea's own Bonde sideboard and discovering it was out of his price range, Michael bought the bookcase with glass door for a fraction of the price, turned it on its side, added legs from an old coffee table and voila! He's planning to add some spotlights inside, too.
Bonde shelf unit, £65; Bonde glass door, £39, both from Ikea.
The trick to using Ikea furniture in your home is to make it look like it might not really be from Ikea, but is a hot designer buy instead... Taking a plain Expedit bookcase, Yvonne Eijkenduijn gave it a retro (and unique) twist by wallpapering the back. Time taken? About an hour or so...
Expedit bookcase, £69, Ikea.
Longing for a media centre that was long, linear and floating on the wall, Susan Serra used three sets of Stolmen drawers, and a dark wood countertop left over from a previous project, to create this sexy storage unit. It's supported with angle brackets on the inside, attached to studs in the wall.
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