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DIY: Shelf Brackets Made From IKEA Stools

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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...

 
 

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Mike was careful to mount his brackets in wall studs and special drywall mounts — ensuring a strong shelf. FROSTA stools are only $12.99 each. Thanks for sharing Mike!

Via:Bicycle Monday

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How To..., shelving & storage, seating - benches & stools, plywood, DIY, bookshelf, IKEA

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Now what to do with all the round seats...

posted by bepsf on September 19th 2008 at 12:10pm
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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.

posted by roseslaw on September 19th 2008 at 12:18pm
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I bought shelf brackets just like these from ikea a year ago, which came pre drilled with the holes.

posted by matt manfredini on September 19th 2008 at 12:21pm
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I think those ikea brackets are smaller. These look like they would hold a lot of weight.

posted by laurel86 on September 19th 2008 at 4:37pm
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these look exactly like the brackets they used to sell at ikea...i still have a couple lying around.

posted by edgertor on September 20th 2008 at 6:06am
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I'm sure Alvar Aalto never saw this coming.

posted by Volvoguy on September 21st 2008 at 5:21am
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What would one do with all the remaining round tops? (4 in this case)

posted by SillyBug on September 22nd 2008 at 12:25am
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play frisbee. Weee..

posted by Sopheline on September 24th 2008 at 6:47am
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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!

posted by qtpuh2tme on October 2nd 2008 at 8:34am
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And one bracket left over. What were you thinking!?

J/k. Still a nice hack, Mike.

posted by Splomo on December 30th 2008 at 2:06pm
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Spiffy! Much more elegant than metal board and bracket shelving from the hardware store.

posted by SherryBinNH on December 30th 2008 at 3:58pm
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I love it! Very elegant.

posted by Monica on December 31st 2008 at 12:10pm
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