Inspired from similar-looking shelves that appeared in a home featured in Dwell Magazine, Mike used the legs from five IKEA FROSTA stools as shelving brackets. Paired with solid oak planks from Home Depot, the shelves are an attractive and inexpensive answer for adding shelving and storage to your home...






Now what to do with all the round seats...
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I bet they could be stenciled over to make an interesting wall installation/art piece. Or use longer pieces of wood to connect them together to make a coffee table top (keeping a few of the legs to use as the table legs.
view roseslaw's profile
I bought shelf brackets just like these from ikea a year ago, which came pre drilled with the holes.
view matt manfredini's profile
I think those ikea brackets are smaller. These look like they would hold a lot of weight.
view laurel86's profile
these look exactly like the brackets they used to sell at ikea...i still have a couple lying around.
view edgertor's profile
I'm sure Alvar Aalto never saw this coming.
view Volvoguy's profile
What would one do with all the remaining round tops? (4 in this case)
view SillyBug's profile
play frisbee. Weee..
view Sopheline's profile
imho, if you can't show how a use all the componets in an ikea hack, it ain't much of a hack.
To purchase perfectly good stools, take them apart, then to have to further purchase oak shelving somewhere else just doesn't seem like a great use of funds. Plenty of good inexpensive shelving already around.
Now, if you happen to have several useless stools lying around, and some heavy boarding collecting webs in your garage, by all means, hack away!
view qtpuh2tme's profile
And one bracket left over. What were you thinking!?
J/k. Still a nice hack, Mike.
view Splomo's profile
Spiffy! Much more elegant than metal board and bracket shelving from the hardware store.
view SherryBinNH's profile
I love it! Very elegant.
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