apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

The problem with Ikea—if we had to have one—would be that sometimes, you feel a little bit like sheep during the whole process. Obviously, yes, the showroom and warehouse makes you feel lie you're being herded. But even when you're home, all said and done with the store and the increasingly difficult assembly instructions, you realize that your apartment is just becoming an Ikea showroom yourself, just like all your friends'. That is, unless you use a little ingenuity like this guy and make a stellar, modern table lamp from unexpected Ikea parts. Do you see it?