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My most confortable furniture hack is a monitor stand, cloned from one the local IKEA had on exhibit. Made by screwing 11cm Capita legs onto an Effektiv file fr
by ableal 17y ago
My most confortable furniture hack is a monitor stand, cloned from one the local IKEA had on exhibit. Made by screwing 11cm Capita legs onto an Effektiv file frame front 80cm wide. Looks like this: http://imgur.com/rlxEK.jpg http://imgur.com/rlxEK.jpg
It's also large enough for a monitor base on one side and a laptop on the other.
- blackguardx 17y agoI think that is just building something from parts. A hack implies something ultra rigged and ugly looking.
- ableal 17y agoI was taking it in the "not the intended use" sense, like the posted clips. And I 'll disagree that a good hack must look ugly ... for example, yesterday's beautiful Turing machine is a hack in my book. The stand's not my idea, anyway. Posted because of the title, someone else might like it. I'm alright ;-)
- ableal 17y agoAs long as I'm "selling" IKEA stuff (I wish, I just give them money ;-): in their kitchen area, there's a Dralla "cutting board". This is a pleasant piece of flexible matte plastic, a couple of millimeters thick, about the size of two sheets of paper, with rounded corners; I've seen it in dark-gray, blue and red. I use the Dralla as a writing pad, on the desk; some people seem to like it as a giant mouse-pad. (Not in the photo, the red thing is a thicker, smaller, unused mouse-pad.)
- gtani 17y agoi've always constructed monitor stands from phone books, but sometime in the near future, there won't be huge stacks of them for free at the supermarket
- ableal 17y agoFunny, I've used that exact technique before. This leaves space underneath to shove the keyboard away and have a go at the pencil and paper ...