My Ikea Hyllis Is On IkeaHackers Today!

IkeaHackers is featuring my Hyllis entertainment console makeover today!  You can see the post

HERE.

And since I've actually finished that wall since I sent them the email, here's a shot of it all put together (until I change it again, you know how I am):

The original blog post about how I did it is here.


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HYLLIS Console Unit: Ikea Hack Finished!

Here's the finished Hyllis console unit:

Since the last post, where I cut off a third of each shelving unit, I have: 

• inserted the removed shelves into the top half of the shortened units
• primed and painted the whole thing 
• drilled new holes in the upright, side posts so that I could bolt the three units together at the insides
• assembled, glued, trimmed, planed, filled, sanded, and stained the wooden top (I made a board, lol)
• drilled holes in the top so that I could attach the wooden top
• loaded the whole thing with electronics, books, and DVDs 

[Whoops!  I had a bit here about the tv that I haven't actually done yet; which is what you get for writing a blog post before you do something, and then not proofreading before you post!  I still need to swap out my tv for Sylvan's larger one.  Mine will go into the craft room for background movies while we work.]

The next step will be to get some shelving up onto the wall above the Hyllis unit, like this: 

Made with Olioboard

More soon.

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A HYLLIS Makeover of My Own

After seeing this post from Skreytum Hus (via Apartment Therapy), I suddenly had the solution to all of my "entertainment center" problems!  Sylvan and I wanted a wall-o-shelving around our tv, and had seen many an idea online, but hadn't decided on anything, until we saw what Soffia had done.  What a fantastic idea!

I started with three of Ikea's galvanized steel HYLLIS shelving units - only $14.99 each.  I assembled them before I did anything else, to get a feel for how much space on the wall they'd take up, and exactly what I wanted to do with them.  It was simple enough: remove the bottom row of shelves, leaving the units about 35" high.

It took me three days of searching high and low for two missing hacksaws (the hell??) before I remembered I have a Dremel.  Fail.

I left the shelves fully assembled to do this. I thought about taking them apart to cut the legs off, but I was leery of messing up the measurements.  This way let me "measure" by wrapping a piece of blue painters' tape around each leg, just below what would become the new bottom shelf, and then just cutting off below the tape. Easy.

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I'm here to tell you, there's a reason those little round cutoff wheels come in packs of a million.  #%&@#$!@$

Wear your safety glasses, kids.

Three!

Now to paint them!  Oh, no...wait...no metal primer in stock.

I set about working on the top for the unit instead.  It's simple enough - some 4" pine bed slats I wasn't using anymore, pieced to create a 74x13" tabletop that will span all three HYLLIS units when placed side by side, and glu---

Aaaand I'm out of wood glue.  THE HELL??

And so...to be continued, LOL.








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