DIYer Uses Ikea Furniture in Home Theater
By Grant Clauser
Easy-to-assemble Ikea furniture matched with Pioneer and Definitive Technology electronics.

The website Ikea Hackers usually shows of examples how people use their Chinese-made Swedish furnishings to organize their closets, stack their kitchen gadgets or create cozy bedrooms for their kids.

This week we found a great example of a design-minded homeowner who did an Ikea furniture mashup to create a very well-done media room complete with a Pioneer Kuro plasma (OK, I guess that’s dating this room a bit), Definitive Technology Mythos speakers and a Plex-based media server. All of the above shows he wanted to save on his furnishings so he could splurge on the important stuff.



The Ikea furniture performed two functions. First, it fit nicely into the mid-century modern décor of the California home (designed in 1952 by Paul Tay), and it was able to conceal all the wires and components.

The DIY homeowner says the furnishings cost approximately $1,100. He spend about two weeks designing and constructing the media room.

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