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1) IKEA Hack DUNSÖN foldable drying rack - Karre Spalier in hellgrün od. pastelltürkis als Wäscheständer

Materials:
DUNSÖN cart with trellis

cart

It has been love at first sight, when I discovered DUNSÖN in light green at IKEA a few months ago. There was just a tiny problem: I definitely didn’t need a dolly or a trellis 🙁

Very soon a new idea was found. Why shouldn’t it be a foldable drying rack for small pieces of clothing such as socks or underwear? Even the gorgeous color matched perfectly to our bathroom in crayon (white, light pink and light turquoise).

The few steps until DUNSÖN reached a full transformation have been quite easy. I went to a hardware store and bought some little useful things for the Hack (three metal clips for heating pipes + one narrow wooden strip + two small metal loops with screws).

Afterwards my boyfriend drilled eight holes into the bathroom wall (additionally six through the three short wooden strips) and then the total construction was fixed by screws.

2) IKEA Hack DUNSÖN foldable drying rack - Karre Spalier in hellgrün od. pastelltürkis als Wäscheständer

The last step was to fasten the two metal loops in place. The light green coloured Hook of the dolly was conveniently reused as a wall bracket for times when I don’t have any wet clothes.

That’s it … hope you like my hack 🙂

Further information (in German).

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6 Responses

  1. Doing some editing here. Guess I pushed that button before I was ready. I meant to say, “covered your door/s with foil…not MDF which is usually the material which is under cabinets before they’re covered with foil. Hope that makes better sense. 🙂

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  2. I like what you said to the other poster, Lala, about covering your door/s in MDF (medium density fiberboard. I had kitchen cabinets in my previous owned home covered in shiny foiled cabinets and they looks fabulous but after twenty years started to peel around the edges but they looked great!! One time, in another house I lived in, I took the door that led from the kitchen to the garage and had it covered with formica. It sure made it a lot easier to keep that white door looking fresh without needing to paint it. I’ll be checking for your other posts…if you have any. Cheers

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  3. I’m wondering why this couldn’t be done without drilling. How about using good strong suction hooks? I’ve seen them used to hold lids on the inside of cabinet doors so perhaps, if that cart isn’t too heavy, they could work here too. Hope you know what kind of hooks I’m talking about, there are those that you can remove without damaging the wall.

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    1. Hi Alice,

      it’s like you said: the whole construction seems to be too massy for suction hooks (jep, I know which ones are meant). With wet clothes hanging on the drying rack it’s even heavier.
      Of course, nothing’s impossible. So if you want to try that hack by using suction hooks, nobody will prevent you from doing that and I’ll be the first one who will congratulate you for finding an improved (wall protecting) version of my hack if it also works. That really would be pretty cool, because even I am usually not a huge fan of drilling (because it’s the only part I gather help from my boyfriend every time) and mostly prefer more gentle ways 🙂

      BTW: Thank you for showing an interest in my other hacks. A few few more are currently projected, but eight ones are finished yet (I submitted four of them so you can find these hacks on the IKEA Hackers webpage, too): http://blogworld-of-tira-mi-su.blogspot.de/search/label/IKEA%20Hacks

      Regards,
      Tira-Mi-Su

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  4. I sincerely hope that this a place that you own, and that you’ve otherwise waterproofed the holes that you put into your tile.

    Is that through the waterproof membrane? Are you completely through to the insulation? Because…honestly, no matter how good this idea seems to be, I cannot stop thinking about all the water seeping in through the screw holes, into the studs, into the insulation, and completely ruining the wall.

    Like I said, I hope that you own this home, because if you’re a renter, look forward to a lawsuit.

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    1. There’s really no chance for water running on that site of the bathroom, I promise!
      But thanks for taking care about other’s living situation 😉
      The flat’s quite old and has been renovated by us (new floor, white foils on the brown doors, new doorhandles, recolored walls, etc.). Of course, everything has been coordinated with the landlord before we moved in and was also written down in the lease. He has been really glad to find new tenents for the hovel 🙂
      BTW: we’re not the first ones who lived here and drilled holes only into the narrow gaps between the glazed tiles in the bathroom (no tile has been damaged till now and when we move out, we’ll close the tiny holes with acryl). We also noticed a few refilled holes in the bathroom when we moved in and of course, I took a lot of pictures of the horrible flat’s condition then.

      Again, thank you for your advice, but my boyfriend’s a lawer and we both know exactly what we’re doing and how to prevent a lawsuit 😉

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