IKEA Stolmen Furniture
 

We have a couple of IKEA Stolmen units and in her wisdom SWMBO has decided that we need to reconfigure the set up.
Of course this means that we need some extra parts and IKEA only stocks them in USA.
Tongue in cheek time.
I need

1. one support pole (floor to ceiling)
2. one cross rail (110cm)
3. one shelf (110cm)
4. and a few brackets

Anyone having some bits lying around?

Throw it all in the skip and do this instead :p

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1683...9J5BoCcRLw_wcB

How much?
 

£995?!!

Steve,
I only paid £150 for all that I have new from IKEA.
What I need would be £40 or £50.
I see on Fleebay a chap is offering something like ten times what I have for £900. Probably more than IKEA ever had?????
Probably works for Audi.

Come on, no one?

Looks like no one has the same bad taste as us :)

Unless you are all too ashamed to admit having bought some :ROFL:

Or so liking it you want to keep it :Confused:

Ohhh, STOLMAN furniture, I thought you said STOLEN!! :D :p

I was just wondering, that you need to make sure if the floor to ceiling support pole is fixed properly Ray, i've see videos of those when it goes wrong or is it not one of those sort of poles.


Ahhh that's why no one was admitting to it.

I know, gas pipe and scaffold boards, do like the look though but would build it myself for a fraction of the price

The support poles have flat plates at the top that ideally are screwed through the ceiling plaster into the ceiling joists. The base plate can be screwed to the floor.
As is usual things can only be as good as they are designed to be if used/fitted correctly.
SWMBO is always telling me that I over engineer whenever I do things. Where builders hammer nails in I screw.

As for self build, that is probably what we will have to do if nobody comes up with anything.

Key clamps and tube. Lots of fittings and tube size to select from and fairly cheap. Have built a few pieces of furniture in the past with good results.

Here's a part finished table
http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...chmentid=12980

Great product for that stuff too, practically indestructible. +++

I bet your stuff doesn't normally fall off the wall though does it.

My motto is do it nice or do it twice

Indeed! That table had 48mm steel tube, needed two people to lift it +++

We built two identical with tempered glass tops. £150 each if I recall.

A lot of years ago, when we were still relatively young (honestly there was a time when even I was young) I had been away in Europe driving tour coaches for about eight weeks.
When I returned home SWMBO had decorated the bathroom. She had mounted two shelves which involved hammer drill into breeze block wall, rawplugging and screwing.
Those shelves are still on the wall. She takes them down for decorating and refits them.
She claims that she learnt how to do it from watching me.
Really good having a wife that can change fuses, the old type where you replace the wire, and she fits her own plugs safely

Careful Ray, you sound pretty close to surplus to requirements! ;)

My SWMBO won't even wash her own car!

It is al down to training :ROFL:

Seriously, I know that I am lucky, and I have an unusual model with all the updates and mods factory fitted. She has all the good bits that none of her sisters have. But then her Mother was very good to me. +++:D:love:

I don't have to wash her either :cool:

That's no fun then! :)

I have a reply ready but I'm afraid not fit for publication.
Something about using and cleaning

Ooooooops!! nearly said it.

I presume you mean that the bits you want are unavailable i the UK as they still sell this system ~I think

have you tried the ikeahackers.net site?

I have tried ikeahacks but withoutb any joy. They only show the ads from fleebay etc.
IKEA do not stock it in UK anymore, I have a friend that works for them, that was my first call. Plenty in the States, but for the couple of bits I want USA and fleebay are too expensive.
Looks like it will have to be a scaffolding pole job.

I see that they stock several Stol(m)en stuff at Ikea here in Norway

http://m.ikea.com/no/no/search/?quer...=1459966651625

:)

Hi Silver,
Thanks.
I know that there is a large stock in USA and believe that it is available in Germany.
Problem is that management has decided that the changes have to made this weekend. So I am going to make what I need with a scaffolding pole.
I can always swap it with the correct pieces when I find them.

is it this stuff ?
 

Yes Roberto.
I only want one support pole, one shelf, one railand a few brackets.
About £30 to £40 new.
I'm in the midst of gathering bits of scaffolding.
Tomorrow I'll make it 'cos management has decided that the units we have will be moved from one room to another, different setup and tomorrow or else. :love:

Screwfix used to sell a modular floor to ceiling storage solution, similar to this...

http://www.spacepro.com/flex-storage-solutions/

That link goes to a US site, but with a bit of searching I'm sure it's available here.

Edit, UK site
https://spacepro.co.uk/aura-information/
https://spacepro.co.uk/relax-information/

http://www.bedroomsplusonline.co.uk/...riors-52-c.asp

Thanks Matt,
Management has declared it a no-no. She says it is the wrong shape. Talk,about OCD.
I only sleep in the bedroom, nothing else is allowed, rules have been made, I do not care if it is odd colours, does not match. As long as my clothes hang OK, who cares about anything else . . . . Oh heck, Gwen does, what a bugger. :love:

There quite a few bits and pieces on gumtree and stuff on ebay

https://www.gumtree.com/for-sale/uk/stolmen

Thanks Del.
We have seen al that is on offer.
Trouble is the distance to travel. And these poles would not fit into the car. OK for a mile or three but a three or four hour drive.

I've got some roof rails for a D3 you could borrow if that would help +++

Paul, Thanks for the offer.
It is all time now, I have started to make my own adjustable pole.
All the other bits I need have been made or are nearly completed.
I'll keep my eyes open and if something local appears then I could always scrap my home made.

Worked all day Saturday on the thing then at 19:15 urgent call out for a 21:00 Manchester to Stansted Airports. $ x cabin crew ladies and one co-pilot. Lovely bunch. Good journey apart from an accident northbound just past Keele services. Home for 04:30. Had a cuppa and hit the bed in the half finished bedroom.
Up at 09:00and finally finished for 23:00. Knackered.
Looking at it now I can only say, "Yep it looks good".
SWMBO is smiling.