Get Ready for Official IKEA Furniture Hacking Kits

The idea of hacking IKEA products is not new , but it ’s still big . It ’s such a enceinte theme that the flatpack furniture giant is develop an official IKEA Hack ware . This is almost on the dot a twelvemonth after IKEAenlisted lawyers to shut down a down fan - made IKEA hack website , pee off reasonable customers all over the earth .

IKEA clear does n’t want a good idea to go to wastefulness . The ship’s company recently announce the plan for an prescribed Hack kit during the second annual IKEA Democratic Design Day at its headquarters in Sweden . I was there ( on IKEA ’s dime ) to peer through the company ’s utopian visual modality for the hereafter . By the meter two young architect types presented the hack idea and a compelling furniture swapping program , everyone in the room full of jet - lagged journalists and Puerto Rico teams was at least one drink deeply into the evening ’s festivity . The buzz made the whole plan sound especially tremendous .

Note : So that I could attend this year ’s Democractic Design Day , IKEA paid for my transportation , meals , and drinks over the course of four days . The company also open me a free poster and a liberal tote bag — both of which I immediately collapse away .

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The Hack estimate is free-base on an interesting interrogation . “ What if you could graze a website and see hack for all the available mathematical product ? ” one of the young designer types asked the crowed . “ Does n’t that already live ? ” I asked my neighbor . ( More on that in a second . ) But what if IKEA build and curated it ? You could even know when you were buying a hackable product in the store .

That ’s it . IKEA would build a internet site that hosted a number of hack theme for all hackable product . You ’d piece a hack kit that worked with your article of furniture and corrupt it from IKEA . The paradigm show at the event imply the iconic Frosta dejection . Thanks to the Frosta Hack kit , the stool became a chair .

The ruined product reckon a little minute janky . That ’s it to the left :

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But again , this is just a program that IKEA is consider . And it would be silly for IKEA to make its hacked furniture facial expression as polished and well designed as the highly designed pieces of piece of furniture it trade at the store . However , IKEA hacking is something that the ship’s company knows hoi polloi like .

IKEA knows that its customer are already modifying furniture they corrupt at the stores . In some case , trafficker on Etsy and so forth are sell custom - make part for IKEA furniture . ( I recognize this because I just bought some . ) IKEA tried to take a swipe at this burgeon market last class by shutting down IKEAhackers.net , however the companyrelented after a massive backlash from fans . Now , it appears that IKEA is taking a more aggressive catch at the market .

The society is also considering taking on Craigslist and the IKEA article of furniture re - sale market . They ’re call it IKEA Swap . It ’s precisely what it sounds like . Once IKEA launches the program , it would extend a “ buy back guarantee ” on sure items . There would be a small Swap logotype on the tag .

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Then , when you move or redecorate , you take your old article of furniture detail to an IKEA shop and substitute them for point that you may use on — you guessed it — more IKEA piece of furniture . What ’s extra nerveless about this idea , however , is that IKEA is also call back of create a 2nd - hired man furniture marketplace that would intend people could buy even cheaper IKEA article of furniture . The designer types holler this a “ Second life history ” market place , though I think something got lost in transformation there .

The prescribed IKEA Hack and IKEA Swap programs might not come about . Everything IKEA does is extremely deliberate and well thought out , so if the numbers do n’t make horse sense , you may be sure that IKEA will go on its inevitably symbiotic relationship with the IKEA cyberpunk community and leave the 2d - hand securities industry alone . Unsurprisingly , IKEA did n’t name the unofficial hack site or the legal action in its intro .

In the coming days , I ’ll be writing about a number of IKEA products that are hypothesize to happen in the next duo of days . Some of them are rightfully exciting — especially the ones that delve into the world of home electronics . Some of them are engrossing — especially the ones that bend meth into furniture . All of them are very IKEA . You ’ll see what I mean by that — if you stay tuned .

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