![]() I had previously sanded the parts that I wanted to glue together to create a rougher surface, but I don’t think this was necessary. I used almost more than half of the 50 ml container on one nightstand. This glue is so strong that there is no way that this new addition will ever fall apart. I first positioned the corbels on the old coffee table, then the back feet and last the thick shelf on top. I worked very fast and with help and I applied generous quantities of glue on all the parts that needed to be connected. To glue all the parts together, I used a 5-minute Epoxy, a very strong glue that sets in just a few minutes. The other half is filled with particle wood, and that is the part I used, as it had two filled flat surfaces to apply glue onto. Here are the parts after they were cut to the above mentioned dimensions. Even though I had read that the legs of the IKEA LACK tables are hollow, to my surprise, I found out that only about half the leg is hollow. To make one bedside table, I used two IKEA LACK coffee tables – an assembled one (which I already had) plus a new one that I purchased. From the new table package, I only used the upper thick tabletop and two legs.Īnd I also bought two wooden corbels that would serve as front legs to hold my new shelf.Īnd here is how to make one: I took the new parts to a carpenter and for a low cost, I had him (1) cut 2.5 inches off each corbel (2) make the new top shelf 12.5 inches long and (3) cut the two new legs to 7 ¼ inches high. I managed to extend their height and turn them into functional and elegant bedside tables! All I had to do was to add one more shelf and four legs of top of my existing IKEA LACK coffee table! As for their style, it was definitely not my first choice. Not to mention that reading in bed was out of the question as even the tallest table lamps were too short to distribute adequate reading light. Coffee tables are meant to be shorter than bedside tables and with an 11 inch difference from the top part of the mattress to the table, reaching for something was more of a plunge than anything else. ![]() ![]() I quickly got used to their fairly large surface that could easily accommodate more than what one needs to have on hand over the course of a night, but their height has always been a problem. In the master bedroom, we’ve been using on each side of the bed the IKEA LACK coffee tables as nightstands. This was supposed to be a temporary situation as it was an effortless and inexpensive solution, but we ended up having them for over five years.
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