When Sait Alanyali got tired of his home office, he went to Ikea and grabbed some standard fare, to be used in not so standard ways. His new set-up uses two white Lack side tables as shelves on his long desk, and a green Malm glass top as a monitor stand.
After the jump a look at the DIY upgrades he made... 
"I can't afford two Apple displays, so why not make yours look like one?" Sait painted his gray-black LCD monitors white.
"I cut the side table's legs to 30cm and keep the 10cm pieces to support the glass top. The distance between the legs of the side table is 45cm, so 10cm from the bottom of the legs, I made 2cm support places for the glass top to slide between the legs."
"I had to make an adjustment to fit my two LCD monitors between the two side tables, so I made the right table just a little bit over the edge of the desk. I didn't cut it because I wanted the 55x55 space. Then I put the 10cm pieces of the legs (four) under the glass top.
"The glass top is fully under the left side table but reaches just the left leg of the right side table. So, left side table now has three layers of storage space, and the right one is available for my JBL Creature Speaker."
Here's a before picture of Sait's workspace. 
Photos: Sait Alanyali
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Well done. I love a good IKEA hack.
view Signe's profile
Great idea to add the glass. I love the way you cut the legs to support the glass. Very creative. Fantastic space. I have my printer on a chrome shelf I found in the kitchen section at the container store so I could put my ScanSnap under the printer.
view DeClutterYou's profile
Thanks ;)
view salanyali's profile
Great!
To reduce the clutter under the table, I'd be tempted to go higher and add a couple more Lack side tables.
That said - nice design and execution . Thanks for sharing&inspiring!
view miani10's profile
I like this, great job!
view Hughe Palmer's profile
what type of paint did you paint those monitors? And is there any online tutorials on doing this? I'm not very tech literate.
Anyway, I love the transformation from the before and after pics. Lack tables are always so inexpensive but in this setup they don't look it at all!
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The paint process could be much more complicated but I chose the easiest, because time was limited and I couldn't find all the materials.
Basically I unscrewed the monitor to it's core pieces and then painted them 3-4 layers with glossy white spray paint. After 24 hours, I joined them and voila :) Didn't need a tutorial ;)
Thanks for the nice comments...
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