a new wiksten tank a few quilts for sale tiny friends coloring book staple dress no. 5 cooking up a new quilt a finished quilt top and new threads are here please do not use my pictures or text without seeking my permission first references to my blog are welcome but please let me knowI've been an admirer of Rita Konig since I first saw her apartment in and her cute little book but recently it seems like she's everywhere!She has her blog, , on Domino and now you can in New York on their website as well. has a great this week as well. For those who don't know, Rita is the daughter of renowned British interior designer . Her London flat is pictured below. I love the pale turquoise walls that would certainly cheer me up on a grey and dreary London day. Nina Campbell also has a full line of products available on her web site including a few things I've seen in Rita's apartment like colorful and . She also has a collection of fabrics, wallpapers, rugs and carpets.

Photos by Francesco Lagnese and Angela Moore katie sends in her arty wall decor of 9 malma mirrors. a quick and easy way to decorate a wall."7 painted chocolate, 2 painted ice blue. i am cheap and live in an apartment so instead of going about doing this mirror in the proper way using nails and some 2x1, i tore up an ikea under-the-bed box and used the thin veneer and duct tape as a method of fastening the mirrors together. it took all of an hour once i settled on the layout and it's been up on my wall for over a year and half with no problems at all."she spray painted them and screwed them together. So what's a girl to do on a rainy Sunday in the city when her plans to go to the beach for the weekend have been cancelled? I decided some serious closet cleaning was in order. This is the time of year when the fall clothes are starting to arrive in stores and I get tired of my summer wardrobe and it got me thinking about those whose closets I envy.Although I have a big closet compared to most in NYC, I think Lauder's closet/dressing room/office is bigger than my entire apartment!

Not only is her closet huge and ridiculously organized, look at those jeans, and I thought I was anal, but it is lined in ridiculously expensive wallpaper from . It is beautiful though and apparently very popular, Tory Burch also has it in her entry foyer. owner Eva - closet that has been featured in among others, is a bit more reasonable in size but no less well organized. I love the mirrored doors on her closet. It's a great idea for less worn items. Photos by Anders Overgaard, ?, and Dewey Nicks. a cute clock from maria, using the ribba frame, a kort art card and an alarm clock.first, cut a hole in the backing wood of the ribba frame and attach the clock to it. then, puncture a small hole in the kort art card for the clock needles and you're set.see more instructions for the ribba clock.other clock hacks:> bamboo dish clock> time bomb clock> rusch clock's new face> international analog clock early last month, i pulled the plug on the ikeahacker forums due to spam and time commitments.

wrote me a few days ago and suggested a collaboration. i jumped onboard immediately because ikeafans is a wonderful community, moderated by people who know their ikea.so it is with much glee that i'm announcing this ... all the answers you've been aching for - the right way to cut a lack shelf, replace a kitchen door hinge, dismantle a malm bed, find the right sized nuts and bolts - you now have a pool of over 17,000 ikeafans to help you figure it out.feel free to post questionssedar curtains uae, exchange ideas, preview your hacks in progress. sunset ready made blackout curtains mochaDulcineaK, otherwise known as the answer chick, will be moderating the forum. romantica antique white curtain pole

i will pop in and chime in my 2 cents whenever i can.click here to get to the forum page. butterfly sheer glow in the dark rod pocket curtain panelyou will need to register to be part of the community. john frusciante curtains vinyl buyit's as toasty as a cinnamon roll in there.curtains and blinds hessle road i love mattias' idea for his balcony flooring. so simple yet effective."i have used gorm shelfs as floor decking for my balcony. i just added an extra beam in the middle of every shelf. of course some treatment oil is recommended, but it's still a rather cheap and easy way to get a nice balcony floor." shannon, who takes lots of photos at home, has a great idea for a permanent system to hang photo backdrops."

i began with the deka curtain wire kit from ikea. i mounted the end units to the top of our entertainment center and strung the wire across. luckily it was exactly the right length.i then attached the clips that came with the kit and i can hang any color backdrop that i want for an in home photo session.you don't even notice that the wire is there unless we point it out to you."see shannon's home photography backdrop. I'm not sure which is worse, my obsession with House and Garden or my obsession with Domino. I think Domino edges out H and G because they have more on their website. These photos are from their editor Tori Mellott's apartment and I love what she's done with a bland little studio and how she's mixed tradional and modern elements. This is a similar vibe to my apartment and my favorite designs always have a mix of different elements. Designers who stick to one style bore me. Good thing the designer I work for knows how to mix it up! Photos by Annie Schlechter a wonderful find on apartment therapy.

killorn sent in instructions for a captain's bed that not only looks great but has loads of storage.she built a platform for her bed and then cleverly used a lack shelving unit on casters to give the illusion of a built-in. pull out the lack shelf to access additional storage.see instructions on killorn's captain's bed. melissa is back at the sewing machine. she gained a bit of fame here with her pillowcase skirt (one of the top 10 hacks for 2006) and now she sashays in with a dress made from tanja shower curtain fabric ."the tanja shower curtain stayed in my fabric stash ever since, just waiting for the perfect project, which presented itself in the form of this Burda WOF 60s dress from the may 2007 issue. it turned out to be the perfect fabric for this dress!"see more of melissa's ikea shower curtain dress. michael turned a book case on its side and hey, you've got a sideboard."we were looking to finish off our living room set with the bonde sideboard, but at almost $400 we figured out a creative alternative.

we bought this used bonde book case online with glass door for only $90, turned it on its side and attached some legs from an old ikea coffee table we were anxious to get rid of and viola! we also to plan on putting some small spotlights inside."plenty of eager crocheters and knitters. how do you keep them from becoming a tangled mess?adora tipped me on this great use of the rationell plastic bag dispenser at maker fairesuch sweet hands]. just stuff the containers with yarn with the center pull tails snaking through the holes for eager needles.further down the post, there is also a suggestion to close the open end and trap a cat toy inside to provide bored cats a challenge. what fun a trash bag holder can be. the ikea hol storage cube is turning out to be a firm favourite when it comes to building computers into furniture. here's one from daniel.more pictures of daniel's hol computer.other hol hacks:> barbex's smart tv recorder> hide a sub woofer in this holgot one too? show us your version.> andi's > patrik's

lee sent me photos of his basement studio and i thought i went to ikea hacker heaven.the table is a severed drafting table top with what i think are vika curry legs.the beauty on the left is an alex drawer unit, originally with casters but lee matched it perfectly to an herman miller aluminum group base he cut down. the one of the right is an ikea bas shadow box finished in black stain with a sheet of eames office stationary as backdrop.and the skinny hairpin legs look gorgeous on the ikea attityd .lastly, the ikea ps cart with a the larger top shelf to accommodate the monitor and speakers. and please note the speakers! from the front, you'll probably not notice that they are made from ikea planters! you must hop over to lee's site for details of his ikea basement studio hacks, while i wipe the drool off my face. a charging station that lifts all the wires and cables off the floor and displays all your gadgets at the same time. a neat idea!hans of sweden needed a new place for his phone and all sorts of rechargeable stuff.