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Ikea Takes on Ikeahackers.net in Trademark Case
June 18,
2014 by in Industry, Legal 
Want to make a coffee table out of magazine files or a floor-to-ceiling library from plastic storage bins?
Where there’s an IKEA, there’s a way. The Internet is full of ideas for repurposing furniture and other odds and ends sold by the Swedish home furnishings retailer.
Back in 2006, a blogger calling herself Jules Yap – a pseudonym inspired by Ikea’s Jules chair — realized this and created IKEAhackers.net, an online gold mine of ideas for thrifty do-it-yourselfers, upcyclers and re-inventionists.
The site shows how to turn the standard IKEA Billy bookcase into a mid-century style sideboard, a wine rack, a standing desk and much more.
Read Entire Story Source: The Washington Post