Winnie Lam was thinking about food when she made her Chocolate Sundae Toppings footstool, fashioned from a few bags of cotton pompons hot-glued to an Ikea stool. "It came from staring into a bowl of ...

If you set your mind to it, probably everything in the Ikea catalog could be put to a different use than its intended one. And if you're stuck for ideas, the Ikea Hackers website is full of lots of ...