An IKEA IVAR cabinet made from untreated solid pine serves as a blank slate for furniture projects. Amanda Harper Fink and her husband were inspired by others transforming IVAR cabinets into brutalist-style pieces and decided to create a funky, luxe-feeling furniture item for their home. After assembling the cabinet using IKEA instructions, they planned placement of half-round spheres on the front doors by testing spacing and estimating how many pieces were needed. They attached each sphere using wood glue, aligning them by eye after spacing was set. The process was repeated on both sides, using 84 half-spheres total, and the project took about 6 hours and $250.
"If you've ever seen a designer piece of furniture that's out of your price range, but fallen in love with it anyway, you're not alone. But if you're crafty and creative like Amanda Harper Fink, then you can DIY it. (Even if you're not a project pro, this transformation is simpler than it looks!)"
"IKEA's cabinet is made from untreated solid pine, which is "a great blank slate for many furniture projects," Harper says. "We saw high-end versions of [the brutalist] style," Harper explains. And after seeing others turn IKEA's IVAR cabinet into unique, stylish pieces, she and her husband decided to do the same."
"After building the cabinet following IKEA's instructions, Harper and her husband started placing the half-round spheres on the front doors to get an idea of how many they would need and the spacing between each one. "If we did it again, we would use chalk lines to line up the spheres," she explains. Instead, after getting the spacing right of the four rows with six half-rounds, they used wood glue and attached each one to the front doors, eyeballing them afterwards to guarantee they were in straight lines."
"They continued this process on both of the cabinet's sides, with three rows of six. (For those of you wanting to re-create this DIY, that's 84 half-spheres total.)"
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