{"id":133,"date":"2009-03-08T13:26:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T19:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2011-02-11T06:56:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T12:56:45","slug":"my-ikea-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/08\/my-ikea-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ikea hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I recently bought a set of shelves from Ikea for my tv and for some extra dvd storage space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I&#8217;d put it together, I found that it was a bit too tall for the space, and I didn&#8217;t like the amount of space between the shelves. So I decided to modify it. I set the shelves to a spacing that I liked, and then trimmed the uprights to the height of the top shelf.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-134\" title=\"Mid-trimming\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/01trimming-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mid-trimming\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/01trimming-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/01trimming-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/01trimming.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I decided to use the scraps to make two little shelves to put at the back of the bottom two shelves to create even more dvd storage space.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-135 alignnone\" title=\"Scraps\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/02scraps-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The sawed off uprights.\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-136 alignnone\" title=\"2 x 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/03bought-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The 2x2 I used with the scraps to make the shelves\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-137 alignnone\" title=\"Little shelf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/04shelf1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Finished little shelf\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I used the scraps I&#8217;d trimmed off, along with a plank of 2&#215;2 that I bought to make the two small shelves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m thinking of staining it a darker colour because it sort of fades into the yellow of the wall, but that&#8217;ll be later. For now, I&#8217;m pretty pleased with how it turned out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-140\" title=\"Finished\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/07finished2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Finished\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/07finished2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/07finished2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/07finished2.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently bought a set of shelves from Ikea for my tv and for some extra dvd storage space. When I&#8217;d put it together, I found that it was a bit too tall for the space, and I didn&#8217;t like the amount of space between the shelves. So I decided to modify it. I set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pics","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}