Bedroom furniture

Sloping wall gets a new face
I love how Rapunzel turned this lemon into lemonade. The sloping wall is hidden behind this fabulous looking fabric headboard, surrounded by cabinets (akurum, I think).

This is how the room looked before, with 15-year old Pax wardrobes.

The wardrobes were removed but the problem with the wall is that it is warped backwards, with the bottom the wardrobes close to the wall but gaping at the top.

The view from the bed was less than pleasant, as you would be able to look directly into the wall gap. To solve this problem, Rapunzel added wall cabinets between the wardrobes to create a nook for the bed underneath.

Then, she mounted a panel of fabric by way of a square timber attached to the bottom of the wall cabinets. The fabric is attached to the timber by velcro, which I think is brilliant. The look of the room can be easily changed just by changing the fabric. Fantastic!

The sloping wall makeover is documented here.

Modern Furniture

Tyler puts together a credenza from the Traby line, only to have it blend too well with the floor. Eight coats of high gloss paint later, we have a winner.

He also replaced the stumpy Traby legs with Capita legs.

See more of Tyler's modern credenza on his blog.

Get one of these easy-on-the-pocket chandeliers

Stand up for a chandelier
Heather says, "I love a lot of Ikea's ceiling lamps, but I'm unfortunately a renter of an old-ish building and so attempting to put anything in a wall, let alone a ceiling is a leap of faith I'm not willing to take.

I've made a chandelier floor lamp from a number of Ikea products. Starting with the Not Floor uplight/reading lamp which I bought awhile back, I added a ceiling pendant chandelier lamp which no longer seems to be sold on the Ikea site and I can't remember its name, but I believe I bought it in the past 1 or 2 years.

Additional supplies included long plastic crystal garlands which were on sale at Ikea the Christmas before last (all the Christmas decorations have the same name) for about 1.99 each and a small Ikea lamp shade meant for the mini lamps with candle bulbs. I removed the shade from the metal frame of the lamp, glued it to the plastic shade which came with the ceiling lamp and placed it on top of the metal frame of the Not floor lamp. Then I attached the modified (I've added some more plastic crystals to the ceiling lamp to make it look more dramatic) over the top of the plastic shade and also chained together some extra plastic crystals to form a netting over the smaller reading lamp."