@@paulbae1959 Problem is, you have to have your cursor on the pause button ahead of time, because in the real world there's no time to get to the pause button before it's too late.
Most people can't make cabinets from scratch so why are you lazy keyboard warriors saying she should have just made them custom? She took an existing piece of furniture and updated it. Have you never watched a DIY video? Jesus. Don't listen to all the people complaining. This is a great DIY for anyone interested in getting off their phone.
It can save a lot of time and effort to start with flat packs. You don’t have to design, measure, cut, and source all the raw materials. IKEA provides a good shortcut, usually at a good price. Then you can modify it, if you have the tools and skills.
Absolutely and also wood is expensive right now still over priced. These are already made. They have the design feature inside that she needed for what she was looking for so it was actually ingenuity and industriousness.
They aren’t saying it doesn’t look good they are just saying for them personally it looks difficult instead of a hack. That’s praising her skills in my opinion because it’s true not everyone has the tools or skills to create what she did. Remember people started going to ikea mostly for easy/ renter friendly decor. They aren’t cursing her out or insulting so leaving simple opinions like that isn’t a big deal and doesn’t make them lazy.
Would take you a few hours if you didn’t paint it. Also don’t have to apply the same level of detail. Stop complaining about people sharing information and admit you’re lazy and don’t want to learn
This ain’t a “hack”. Hacks are quick and circumvent a typical process of doing something in a more quickly fashion. This is an entire project. Shoulda named this a how to.
1. I love the color combination 🤩 2. I love the old handles you added 3. I love your enthusiasm and hard work 4. I think it looks BEAUTIFUL and I wish I had a big enough home for something like this Well done 👍
>What you guys think? Since you asked for an opinion... I think it looks like 3 ikea shoes cabinets side by side with a reclaimed piece of wood on top.
The middle slot that creates 2 separate levels for your shoes can be left out to make it wider. It doesn't really have space for boots but it helps for bigger shoes.
My heart used to skip a beat when I would see these kids paint nice, previously stained furniture, and there certainly are pieces that I still think would be a travesty to paint, however, the painted look has grown on me a bit, and it is surprising how a nicely painted piece of furniture can freshen things up a bit. Since she attached this to the wall, and essentially reinforced this Ikea furniture with all the extra pieces, it's not going anywhere, but if I were to put forth the effort she did, I don't think I'd want the structure itself to be cheap, low grade particle board like this. I think I would rather take on old, higher quality piece from Goodwill or a yard sale and refurbish it and build it in.
People complaining that this isn’t a hack because it’s time consuming, but then people complaining that she used IKEA stuff instead of building it herself……… she hacked a built in by using IKEA stuff to make it quicker than building it all herself? Starting with something that’s already squared up and has hardware where it needs to be is SO much faster than building all that yourself. Also if you take proper care of your products and things, they should last a long time, even if they’re cheaper… Negativity toward DIY builds is crazy. Just because you don’t think you can do it, doesn’t mean it’s terrible, just means it isn’t for you.
Great result... BUT: I have had one of these shoe storage from IKEA and it broke after 2 month 😳🙈 I would buy better qualitiy, because it is frustrating to Ruin a Lot of effort and Money in a DIY that won't last very Long 😟
Pretty nice work! Start to finish it appears that you went through lots of effort to do a detailed, creative job. I can't help but wonder, however, if you are willing to put in the time and effort to transform cheap Ikea furniture into something like this, how much more time, effort, and money it would have taken to just make them from scratch.
Significantly more time and effort. Also, probably tools and skills she doesn't have. She used a few handheld tools and did very basic carpentry. Building these from scratch would require way more.
@@biggregg5 It probably depends on what your definition of "made from scratch" is. You cannot make this kind of shoe cabinet completely out of raw material in a comparable amount of time
Will somebody explain to these people that a hack is not an “extensive time consuming DIY project”. THE IDEA OF A HACK IS USING SOMETHING IN A WAY THAT IT ISN’T INTENDED, FOR A CONVENIENT PURPOSE.
This "Ikea Hack" costs over $400 dollars and requires not only expensive tools but also moderate carpentry skill. This isn't a hack anymore, you just built a storage wall with pieces from IKEA.
each unit was £30 from ikea. i had 3 of them. that’s £90. the 2 scaffolding boards cost me £40 and the rest of the stuff i already had. so those were my cost, although it may differ for others.
Great work 👍 good use of basic IKEA cabinets. Shows what you can do with some imagination and a flair for carpentry and painting. Hack or not a hack, regardless it looks damn good. 10/10
Love this! Definitely a doable hack for me! For those that don’t have the tools to cut wood/mdf, you could always ask Home Depot to cut your board/trim to size and you can sand the wood by hand (following the grain). If you don’t have clamps, you can always glue them and lay it on their side, so gravity can do the work, if you have some assistance placing them safely.
@@a_little_green True-ish. Most cabinet makers are going to want to make things out of hardwood or at least good quality ply. But if you asked for chipboard and melamine like IKEA stuff it wouldn't be all that expensive. Of course I doubt many would agree to do something like that, there's a reason IKEA furniture is falling apart after a few years
@@jeffcarroll6553 there is no joinery. Lol. Pocket hole screw will do the trick and it’s fast. She did the most labor intensive work already. Those trim and table top are most time consuming. It was just few pieces of plywood away from total custom, you see she even had to cut into the side panels to make them fit the base board.
I still think there is a lot of less work - for example the mechanism for the opening the compounds, the overall building of the furniture itself. I am terrible at measuring correctly, so I couldn't build the ground pieces from Ikea, while I could paint it and do that little bit of wood work.
@@Staronat I agree. The mechanisms look way to complicated for my skill set. Not to say I wouldn't want it custom but this looks like some I could do. Plus the satisfaction of the end result is nice
I’m exactly the same!! I prefer to look at other people doing DIY stuff, rather than me actually doing DIY stuff. 😂 I procrastinate for months on end, then just don’t do anything. 🤪🤷🏼♀️
I love the self-deprecation....we should start a club. The weird thing for me is that I'm the go to handyman for relatives to call when they want something done. I've got the tools, and a fair bit of know how for shelves, accent walls, drawer installions, furniture painting, cabinet building, island makeovers, and the like that I've done the last couple of months, but when it comes to my home, I've done lots and lots of projects in my head, but that's about it.
@@biggregg5 as a qualified joiner. I do everything for other people but when u get done after a long hard shift it's hard to get going again for yourself I need a handyman😂
These comments are so whiney and negative. She made a cool project and everyone wants to nitpick technicalities? If you've ever done a furniture flip or reno project, you know you can source a lot of these materials cheaply secondhand, and that this is really not some impossible project compared to a lot of them - there's actually not that much involved. It's a cool way to make a custom cabinet that would actually cost a fair amount if you bought a fully assembled one in a similar style - these extra materials don't actually cost that much to flip things with, if you're of the hobby of doing so (which is who this video is for, so get over it.). And before someone comes at me for the cost of power tools, A.) if you're running a household and things break, it's good to have some basic tools on hand anyways as a normal upkeep expense; B.) you can rent power tools at most local hardware stores for far less than full price; and C.) If you think the inclusion of power tools make this an unreachable cost - maybe don't try furniture flips or renos? This video probably isn't for you then. And if you pay attention you can replicate it, she told you everything she did and you have the power of google, this really isn't that hard. Use your brain. Maybe this comes off as aggressive, but the "This isn't easy enough and we're all just too tragically unhappy with ourselves to enjoy a cool project from a talented craftsperson and want to complain about it" attitude gets a bit old. Grow up and enjoy things?
What you have to remember is this isn't a random person sharing a project with her friends on Facebook. This is a professional RU-vidr who is profiting off of lies. This is a trash build and she shouldn't be compensated for this type of work. Especially when there are tons of real carpenters out in the world. It's doing a disservice to her, carpenters, and this who are watching this content.
Well let’s be clear for her, I think a lot of women aren’t taught anything about this. So, an electric screwdriver, a jigsaw to cut shapes (for example to cut out where the unit meets the wall and baseboard), you could use again either the jigsaw to cut the length of wood, or if you’re up for it, a circular saw (use a jig to cut straight), and what else…a sander. I have to rewatch it, to see if I missed anything. These tools can all be bought on sale and are not out of most people’s reach. Father’s Day is coming up, and Christmas and Boxing Day are good sale times.
I feel like with the skill, patience, and dedication displayed here, you'd be better off -- both for the number or views on this video and for the quality of the end product -- doing the whole thing yourself without Ikea involved.
Sometimes it’s faster and cheaper to take a preexisting piece and customize it, especially when you take into consideration this piece comes with the specific hardware needed to open it up this way, and this even has dividers for the shoes inside. I have the same ikea shoe rack, and also built a custom hidden trash car that opens the same way, and the shoe rack took way less time and effort. And when your todo list is as long as most people’s are, it’s nice to sometimes save time and money on a small project, so you have more time and money for the next one!
This is incredible! People don't realize to make something like this from scratch would take a ton of money time and effort. So yes, this is a hack for someone wanting something easier
As an experienced IKEA user, I would have connected the cabinets with some nice M5 bolts+nuts from the hardware store, cut the baseboard shape into the cabinets themselves, used screws to hold the top against the wall and just smoothed out the top with some clay-like substance mixed with the desired paint.
As an total infinite super duper IKEA fan and user and lover, I would have bolted them all down, kitted the drawers shut, poured concrete over the whole thing, let it dry and then remove the original shoe cabinets. After that, I would repaint it in the same style as the sixteenth chappel and store my shoes in the blue/yellow bag from IKEA, that I painted in a slightly deeper blue and brighter yellow. But thats just the perfectionist in me...
