hacks at ikea philadelphia

kath spotted these hacks at ikea philadelphia! nice work, ikea.

“a while back, my husband and i were at ikea in philadelphia, and we saw a monitor stand made from a galant half-round table top and some 4″ capita legs. before that we had only seen the galant half-rounds used as an end-cap for a galant table. we thought it was a great idea, since i still have an old monitor that’s pretty heavy and needs that support, and so we bought the supplies and assembled it at home (pix below).
Galant-hack

this past weekend, we were back at ikea philadelphia and i guess since the galant half-round wouldn’t match the alve desk, someone had the brilliant idea to make a monitor shelf made from what i believe to be an adel kitchen cabinet door (though it might have been a spare alve door they had around, i’m not quite sure which) and the capita legs (pix below). i’m not sure if this hack is a local hack or not, but i thought it was fun to see them use their own products in unconventional ways.”

alve-hack