Free-Standing Brimnes Chevet for tenants
Materials: Brimnes headboard, 2 Vika Furusund table legs solid wood, hand saw, tape measurer, pencil, screwdriver, screws more or less a Drimmel
description: Unfortunately, it seems too many of Ikea heads are designed to be wall mounted. This complicates things for renters like me (my owners like the wallpaper in the house). I came up with a very simple, easy to do the Brimnes free standing head.
All you do is screw the Vika Furusund table legs in the bottom / back of the headboard Brimnes.
I go with those legs because they are solid wood, and you need to cut them. Ikea does not offer table legs that are the right length.
After assembly of the headboard, I get to where I wanted to put the legs (the only place for them to live in is the bottom shelf on each side.) I put my legs off and back as I could, to minimize their visibility.
Then I measured how the leg that I had saw to get at the front legs of the headboard
I have a small hand saw kit Buck Bros. I bought Ace (you can get it at Home Depot, too). It is cheap and comes with a block that stabilizes your cut. It takes some muscle, however.
I sawed a few inches I measured and then kissed the feet to the head.
This is where you can do better than me. I realized before I started the screws supplied with the Furusund were too long, and break through the bottom shelves.
I could have just gone to the hardware store and bought shorter screws, but it was late and I wanted to do. I went ahead and screwed through the shelves, then used a Drimmel (and eye protection!) To get the level screw with the shelves.
Dumb idea. It worked, but just go for the shorter screws.
Voila! Tenant-friendly, free-standing storage headboard.
~ Meredith, Austinite Boston
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Julius Yap "I'm Jules, the engine behind IKEAHackers and whoever keeps. this site and running Ma mission is to capture all the wonderful, inspiring, clever hacks and ideas for our beloved IKEA products "
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