IKEA Hacker
Your night editor was MIA yesterday for a very good reason: he inadvertantly got locked into the Emeryville IKEA overnight, and in the end there was nothing to be done but curl up on a DALSELV (or anyway a JAREN on a DALSELV), pull a MYSA OLVON over his head, and wait until morning.
Okay, not exactly. But it was pretty much like that.
Anyway, this morning I was back in my living room, sitting on the unopened flatpacks of my future furniture, and thinking about the re-purposing and hacking we’d already done with our existing furniture. I guessed there was probably a website devoted to that subject, so I went to Google and typed two words: ‘IKEA hack’.
What it gave me back was IKEA Hacker, which is full of creative solutions to problems the IKEA designers never imagined. I particularly like the media storage hacks, but the section labeled miscellaneous is probably the most interesting: a kegerator, a chicken coop, a guitar made from a butcher block, and much more.
July 10th, 2009 at 12:43 am
Dude, that was like the one time, only a couple weeks ago, when me and the Sunday editor, Seth Fischer were locked inside the Self-Storage facilities in Berkeley for an hour when the night manager failed to appear and the whole place just shut down without warning. Plus we were with a woman who was 8 months pregnant. Luckily, a cop showed up by accident and helped us out. But being locked in Ikea sounds a lot worse for some reason. Only upside to it is there’s more Swedish meatballs involved.
July 10th, 2009 at 7:17 am
I’m really sorry for any inconvenience this caused… but that being said I laughed really hard while reading this. Really hard.
July 10th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Heh, I probably should have made it more clear that I was joking about being locked into the place. But my “quick afternoon trip” to IKEA did in fact turn into an unintentional 24-hour odyssey!
July 10th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Sometimes you should keep the fiction as the truth. The hilarious, hilarious, truth.