Materials: Side panels of IKEA floor display bins
Description: Find an IKEA display bin that is missing the bottom. Buy all 4 of the side pieces.
Hang them on your wall.
Buy clothespins.
Clip photos and cards and whatever else you want on your boards.
Sounds simple? it is. ...but Pottery Barn charges $159 for one, so buy yours at IKEA for a song.
See more of the custom clipboards.
~ A Nest for All Seasons, Hershey, PA
You can buy the DISPLAY bins? Who do you talk to to get them?
ReplyDeleteThey were in the As-is section....apparantly missing a bottom :)
ReplyDeleteI dont really understand what kind of product we are talking about here ... "Side panels of IKEA floor display bins" ...
ReplyDeletewhere can I get this from?
LOVE this! is the as-is section in a particular place, do you know? how much did you pay for the sides?
ReplyDeleteThe as - is section is usually next to the checkout and has damaged, floor model and various items that are for sale t deep discounts. This project was made from a display bin that had lost its bottom, so they were selling the 4 sides in the as-is section. They were $5.
ReplyDeleteNormaly IKEA doesn't sell display items. So this is pretty rare.
ReplyDeleteAs an employee, I was told to throw out a bunch of never used steel wire ceiling panels with the same sort of open grid design as this hack. These fit the standard IKEA ceiling grid - about 1m by 1.5 m by a 5 cm flange that would have allowed wall stand-off.
ReplyDeleteThinking of all of the possibilities - hose and cable hanger in my garage; A/V cable hanger at my church; tool holder just about everywhere - I nearly cried. When I talked to Recovery later. they said that they would have loved to have them to sell.
So yes, occasionally display parts make it through As-Is, although this is not very common. It helps to when the co-workers can imagine the possibilities!
They look like the bedbase for the Trömso loft bed. I used to have that one, it consisted of four frames like that which had to be screwed to the frame.
ReplyDeleteI wish I'd hung on to them now, this is a very nice idea.
I made this. Loved the idea. Only thing I did different was I used only the bottom of the bin-- which I found in the Ikea dumpster when I happened to drive around the building.
ReplyDeletePainted it light green and hung it with some brushed metal hooks that I picked up at Home Depot. Looks like a million dollars.
The pegs look cheap and nasty though...
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