I was mooching around IKEA the other day (like one does!]) when I came across the following candlestick, reduced from £8 odd to only £2.40! It’s not the sort of thing I’d usually buy, but I instantly thought it looked spookily akin to my newest candlestick creation (albeit in miniature) and that it would work really well placed alongside it as a sort of ’set’.
Here it is in its original form:
Small candlestick, original form
To make it fit a bit better with the prototype, I sprayed the silver bezel on the top black, added a larger black disk (made from an old tin can lid) to catch the drips, and added a spike made from a large screw. Here it is in the finished form:
Small candlestick, new form
And here ’s the large and small versions together – voila, a perfect companion! How they do these things for the price, I’ll never know (although my original cost absolutely nothing, of course!)
large and small versions together
You should tell Ikea Hacker about that
http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/
Hey! Thanks so much for this – I had no idea there was such a thing!? Funnily, I’m just doing another mod involving a bit of Ikea stuff so I’ll stick that up also. Thanks too for the comment on the shed – how is yours doing in the voting stakes!? I wish mine was as tidy as yours – what’s your secret?! Clivey
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Your modification has been listed on the Ikea Hacker site
http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/2009/07/one-for-fat-candles.html
Hey, thanks!!! Just written a little bit on it and posted it up – all thanks to you! Hope all well! C
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