KITCHEN ISLAND

I made an island for my kitchen from an old plywood sideboard my mom had in her basement. I took the top off the sideboard put a new plywood top on it, got a piece of stainless steel cut for top, finished it with moulding.

MOM'S SIDEBOARD

Mom needed a sideboard in her new apartment- but it couldn't be too deep and need to clear a 2 foot long baseboard heater.

I made my mom a sideboard and cabinet using IVAR cabinets, a 1X12X6 foot pine board and some mackis office storage units-

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30032387
I mounted the mackis units in a group of three , reversed the drawers and put knobs on them. I also mounted a shelf below for added stability, yet high enough t clear the small baseboard heater safely. I used wooden drawer knobs from home depot for the feet


The Cabinet is two more IVAR cabinets mounted with 1X4's- provides mom more storage

MORE HACKS

Well I guess I better upload a few more hacks.

Here is a coffee bar I made from what I believe was a flark bookcase. I needed a place to store my coffee and tea mugs, pots etc. I simply added doors and a sliding shelf (so I could access the coffee pot to pour water in it). Note the fancy drawer pulls on the upper doors

My Kitchen Center- is a wardrobe, don't know th name that I reconfigured to house appliances since I am the Appliance KING- I found that the interioir width was the same as GORM Shelves, so I installed them, put a small shelf I made from GORM extension posts and I have a great place for my gismos

PHEW - I AM BACK!!!

BLogger keep me offline for a few days - seems they were worried about my blogsite spamming people and wanted to check me out. Apparentely all is cool now. As if I would spam you nice folks in blog land LOL. Anyway I have a few more hacks to show off and will do so when I get home from work tonight.

NATIONAL CRAFTING MONTH

Just learned it is National Crafting Month LOL and I forgot to buy a card for anyone LOL. Here are some ideas on celebrating! I made these nifty vases using scraps from my remodel and one more green thing they use pop bottles too!

Easy to make, I just cut four pieces of my left over door moulding out of scrap pieces that are to small to use, nail them together with wire brads, then the pop bottles come in to set inside the vases to hold water!

SOME OF MY IKEA HACKS

What a day yesterday- my birthday! My mom invited all my family to come over and look at the new addition I put on my house! WoW! I also thought a great oppurtunity to post some of my hacks:

First the Dry bar I promised- very simple hack- I just put two Billy shelves together with two Jarpen Shelves conected with "L" brackets

An old hack- I took a bookshelf- can't think of the name offhand and built it in to the wall- to show off my china and such.

two Rast bed tables I took and upholstered the tops- make up a nice coffee table

I made the DVD holders by taking three LERBERG dvd holders and connecting them. This set I renoved one of the Lerberg squares to clear the wall heater

Another view of both dvd units

MORE HACKS HERE and Here

Flower and Garden show

I went to this years NW FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW which is held at the Washington State convention center. Got some great ideas for the yard.

I like this pergula to the left, think it would be an easy build and look great in my front yard

This gives a new notion to an outdoor kitchen- a stove outdoors!

What home garden wouldn't have chickens? Hens anyway- Seattle allows you to have 3- Burien doesn't allow them so I have been told