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Lighted MALM bed: an all-IKEA hack

Step 2Bonus hack: business card!

Yes, I'm a huge IKEA fan as well as a longtime admirer of R. Buckminster Fuller. So, when I had the opportunity to move into a geodesic dome house last spring, I couldn't resist hacking the IKEA help graphic, found at the end of every IKEA assembly manual, thusly for my new personal card. I'm retired, so I guess it isn't a business card anymore. (Thanks for the graphics help, Randy!)

This concludes my very first instructable. How'd I do?

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7 comments

Aug 10, 2008. 8:39 AMstinkie says:

I love it! How's life in a dome? I want one too, just have to convince the hubby.....it'd be so easy since we live near Italy, Tx where they have the monolithic dome institute!

Aug 10, 2008. 3:27 PMdpocius (author) says:

Surprisingly ordinary. Ours is a 20-year old 39' dia. Cathedralite (since gone out of business), a panelized kit. It's fairly well insulated so it's pretty easy to heat and cool in the SoCal desert. The acoustics take a bit of getting used to, with reflected sounds coming from odd places. It's rock-solid in the wind: no creaks or groans. The materials are standard wood-frame, with drywall inside and composition roof outside. Only one leak and we just re-roofed, so that should be history.

Aug 10, 2008. 6:25 PMstinkie says:

The reflected sound would be an added bonus to me (except for the three year old noise) because hubby lost a good amount of his ability to hear when the first of the Twin Towers came down....almost on his head!

Aug 11, 2008. 5:24 AMdpocius (author) says:

Wow, that's heavy! You guys deserve a structurally-superior dwelling after all that. The monolithic concrete dome looks like a good way to go. I've seen a couple in Redwood City, CA and Sedona, AZ, and they look interesting.

Jan 31, 2008. 6:33 PMjcpoo says:

hi there, i have a MALM bedframe, wondering if anyone can email me the instructions / directions to how to put it together? the booklet that came with the IKEA bedframe? thanks so much please email me... jcpoo@hotmail.com

Feb 1, 2008. 1:05 PMdpocius (author) says:

Download IKEA assembly instructions in .PDF format for most products at:
http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/customer_service/assembly_instructions.html