Expedit storage bed

Inspired by several ingenious uses of LACK shelving units previously, my wife and I set out to create a unique bed with storage for use in our small master bedroom. Flush from my success with our Estetisk make-up station, I purchased two EXPEDIT 1x5 shelving units in black/brown.

At the hardware store, I purchased two six-foot lengths of 1-inch aluminum "angle iron," (the guy called it angle iron, even though it's aluminum), 8-inch wide cedar fence boards (on sale!), wood screws and some small mounting nuts and bolts.

The cedar boards replace our old box spring, and rest on the aluminum angle iron and are mounted with threaded machine screws to prevent slipping.

With the Expedit units set parallel at 30 inches apart, we now have a 30x18x72-inch storage cavity beneath the queen-sized bed. We keep the laundry basket out of sight near the foot of the bed and have bulkier stuff stored under there. In addition, we found some cloth storage cubes at Target which fit the openings in the Expedit perfectly. We use them for often-used clothing items and shoes.

For the floating nightstands in the tiny room, I cannibalized a BENNO compact disc tower, cutting it in two, rounding the top and bottom edges and painting to coordinate with the rest of the room. I finished them by mounting to the wall. Ithink we've got an older KVART wall-mounted dual reading light on the wall to finish the bed area.

Estetisk make-up station

My wife and I moved into a new house with a somewhat small master bedroom and one bathroom. The small bathroom has little space for two people to use at the same time, so I decided to make a nice tidy make-up station for my wife in the far corner of our bedroom.
I used an unfinished ESTETISK compact disc cabinet mounted to the wall with an old wall-mount mirror above.

The lighting is a hardware store three-light setup which originally was a flush-mounted unit made to be hard-wired to household electricity. Since we rent the home, I decided to use the included wire nuts to connect a DIMMA in-line dimmer so she could adjust the light to suit her mood.

To the right, the MOLGER wooden hooks were used for hanging necklaces and bracelets, keeping them close at hand. The whole setup looks nice and neat. The cabinet's door flips down to be used as a temporary shelf while getting ready, and looks nice and clean when closed.

Mmmkay, here we go...

Whelp, there has been a lot of activity 'round the household over the last week or so. There is a new resident in the house, a relative stranger, no pun intended. Our Little Milk Monster has made a big splash in our lives and is taking the house by storm. He's an absolute food terrorizer, consuming any baby-friendly meals within reach with the voracity of a pack of hyenas hopped up on RedBull. His mother, of course, is coping with the usual amount of grace and decorum, not letting the late-night feedings, diaper changings and crying affect her in the slightest.

Anywho, I've got some IKEA Hacker stuff to publish, and I figured I'd create a new blog and use that. Keep a look out for those posts in a day or two, monster permitting.