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Liven Up Plain IKEA Sofas With Chic Interchangeable Legs

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT

[ Filed under Furnishings & in the Decorative category ]

IKEA has come to be synonymous with inexpensive starter furnishings. Their mass-produced flat-pack furniture is cheap, easily-transported and fits into just about any decorating scheme. The only drawback? It’s not exactly the most stylish stuff out there.

This limitation actually turns out to be a benefit for clever IKEA fans. Hacking or modifying these pieces to make them more decorative is a well-loved way to personalize their otherwise-plain appearance. Now a Swedish company called PrettyPegs is making it even easier to improve on the blank canvas of IKEA furniture.

PrettyPegs makes a line of furniture legs to replace the oh-so-plain ones that come with IKEA sofas and beds. A variety of colors and shapes allow you to choose exactly the right look – kind of like putting fashionable shoes on your furniture.

For the most part, the legs are so easy to change out that you can pick a new set whenever you want to update the look of your room. Unfortunately, after the currency conversion a set of legs costs almost as much as the cheapest IKEA sofa: between $104 and $160 for a set of four, plus $25 if you want them shipped to the U.S.

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Nesting Plywood Chair Stores Two Ottomans Inside Itself

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 05:00 PM PDT

[ Filed under Furniture & in the Chairs category ]

Sometimes you need a footrest or side table, but other times you just want to tuck them away without having to take up other storage space. Hence this refreshingly legible, easily-transformable set of chair-and-ottomans combined, with bent plywood shapes slotting into one another like life-sized children’s toys.

For a bit of added aesthetic articulation, the darker shell contains lighter elements which read clearly as separate pieces – no instructions or directions necessary for someone to spot this in your living room and readily realize how to make it work.

The GVAL chair designed by Gustavo Reboredo, Louis Sicard & Nenad Katic. A word from its creators: “The shape of the chair and the texture of alternating sheets of plywood is inspired by pattern of tree rings, which in a way represent tree's memory: each ring usually marks the of one year in the life of the tree.”