IKEA Garden Furniture Hacks

We are all have a guilty little pleasure called IKEA, that great big yellow and blue store in the sky. But you have to be picky because they hire amazing designers to create beautiful pieces that may not last a lifetime. So we ask, why not give them a second life?

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With a little mixing and matching and possibly one or two tools, you can save yourself a whole lot of money on getting your spring and summer backyard ready. We, at Yahoo Makers are a sucker for the take-a-bit-of-this-and-a-piece-of-that-and-voila attitude. That's why we are even bigger suckers for a good'ol IKEA hack. So bring that furniture out of the office or bedroom and fire up the BBQ, summer is upon us!

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