There may have been times in your life when you have felt the need for a website with a name like Ikeahackers for venting your flat pack fury. Instead this website leaves you in awe at the skill and saintly levels of patience of the contributors who seem to find the Swedish instructions too easy – they go beyond the instructions …and then some to repurpose or 'upcycle' those Lack tables and Pax wardrobes.

The first hacker featured wanted to have an old style credenza (not a word you hear every day) with modernist influences. He shortened 2 Alex file cabinets to get that long, sleek look and put an AVSIKT Roll-front cabinet with a metallic finish in the middle so that the vinyl record player can fit in.

Materials: Alex Drawer Unit (40196241) & AVSIKT Roll-front cabinet (#00158439)

Below the winner of Ikeahacker 2010 describes how he converted a studio into a one-bedroom apartment with some Pax wardrobe doors. 'My girlfriend and I bought and moved into our first apartment, with a tight budget we couldn't afford anything bigger then a studio apartment. I can't imagine anyone wanting to have their bed in their living room, so we started to brainstorm. We discussed every type of foldaway bed and room divider. Then we found IKEA's PAX sliding cupboard doors.  We bought the biggest we could find in light aluminum and frosted glass. We measured the size of our Ikea beds and marked off the new room so it would fit our bed and some clothing space tightly in order to save as much space in the living room as possible. I whipped up 2 wooden frames and mounted them to the ceiling, walls and floor. I then mounted the PAX doors and tidied up the frame.'

'Jules' (stage name taken from a piece of Ikea furniture) is a woman based in Malaysia who started the blog in 2006. She describes one of the runners up for the 2010 winner (above), 'Cuteness aside, this is genius. Very innovative use of the BJURSTA dining table to hold two toddlers. And the best thing is, when adults need to eat, the holes can be covered.'

Materials: Expedit shelves, MDF, upcycled burlap coffee sacks

Thought this one above was appealing because the hacker has managed to bring a bit of Guatemala to Sweden, which has to be a good thing, don't you think?

'After lining our office walls with EXPEDIT shelves, we realized we could never afford enough of the baskets that IKEA sells to fill all of the holes. To cover unsightly stored items, we fashioned "screens" out of MDF and covered them with burlap coffee sacks, scored from a local roaster. We think it evokes a way less Swedish and way more rustic, Guatemalan, Tanzanian, fair-trade, organic vibe.'