MARIUS Mongolian Lamb Stool

Materials: MARIUS stool

Description: Lastly I noticed those beautiful Mongolian lamb stools in many stunning interiors! The problem is, as you can imagine, the price of these beauties!!!

As I'm actually working on a girl bedroom project I absolutely wanted to include one of these Mongolian stools for the luxury touch they add and for their incredible softness ...!

So I decided to make my own Mongolian lamb stool thanks to Ikea and their Marius stool. The great thing is the very small price of this stool and the easy way to customize it :)

If you want to have the whole "how to" step by step you can check out the post on my blog.

You'll find the entire DIY including all the pictures step by step here.

~ Nadia, Paris, FRANCE

Marius Industrial Stool

Materials: Ikea Marius stool, an old wooden plate swing, srews and spray paint

Description: Get a one of a kind industrial stool!

1. Spray the old wooden plate swing in your favourite color and let it dry.

2. Remove the old plastic seat and screw your new wooden seat on the metallic stool legs. The Screws have to be a little bit longer than the original ones.

Finished!

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~ Renaade, Germany

TR�BURET...

Materials: Marius stool, wood, chainsaw, planer, sandpaper and screws

Description: Went to some friends and got a big log of pine. They are rebuilding a house and also giving the garden a brush-up so the log was quite fresh and still moist.

Used a chainsaw to cut up the log in 8 cm "discs" and then made them look nice and even with a planer and a good pile of sandpaper.

Gave the wood discs a little oil on the top to make them more resistant towards dust, water or...

Just used big screws to mount the wood on the legs of Marius. The original seat just went into the waste bin.

I really love the look of these stools, used them for a present for my best friends on the opening day in their interior store.

I guess that the wood will twist a little as it dries up but then it will be possible to adjust the screws and make the top even again.

The stool are meant to be used as a small table for nice stilllebens.

The strange name Tr�buret is Danish and made by mixing the word tr� (wood) and taburet (stool). So it gives perfect sense in danish but not in English I guess :-)

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~ Anne Stange, Silkeborg Denmark

It's Black It's White - Pimping Up Ikea Basic Stools

Materials: 2 Marius black Ikea Stools , 2 Ikea Cilla Cushions , 1 Meter Sara Lisa Black and White Ikea Fabric, Hot Glue Gun

Description: We have 2 basic Ikea stools in our home and they are at the entrance. We use them to sit on and put on shoes etc. They were annoying me simply because of their lack of any aesthetic value they added to the area. So I had this thought of decided to give it a try. I was very happy with the outcome and also how they brighten up the area they were in.

How to do it:

Step 1: Assess your stool.. then place the cushion on top of the stool and cut out the bit of fabric you will need to fit and cover it. Be a bit generous as it's always good to have a bit more instead of a bit less.

Step 2: Heat up your glue gun. Place the cushion on top of the stool seat and keep lifting it up and putting the hot glue between the seat and the cushion and pressing it down immediately. I realised hot glue cools very fast and doing it this way ensures you can quickly stick the cushion to the seat.

Step 3: Lay your fabric down print facing the floor and then put your stool upside down with the cushion on the back of the fabric. Make slits to the fabric in accordance with where the legs of the stool will come and then pick up your glue gun and start gluing the fabric to the underside of the stool seat. When doing so try and ensure that there are no creases and that the you neatly fold the fabric on the sides.

Step 4: The back of the stool doesn't look the prettiest and in the case of an Ikea stool you can screw off the legs in the beginning and when you are done with the seat put a piece of material over it or a cut out board. Lazy me I've just left it as I don't really think people will be looking under the stool. But once you are done with you're gluing ... Voila! You have a set of nice to funky stools and in my case definitely made the entrance a bit more attractive than it was previously.

Price wise 2 stools were 90 Nok (that's 2 cups of coffee here in Norway) The fabric 50 Nok, the Cushions 100 Nok also both from Ikea and the glue another 50. So in about 300 Nok I have 2 fun stools.

Time Taken: 2.5 Hours in One evening To do both Stools

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~ Helen Issar, Oslo, Norway

Stool with vinyl record seat

Materials: Marius stool, 33 rpm vinyl record

Description: I do not remember seeing this hack in IkeaHackers so I post!
If unlike me you have a drill and the right equipment, customization of the stool should take very little time.

Start by removing entirely the stool (unless you bought it new), make ??a hole in the center of the plate using a drill (or like me with a screwdriver but it takes longer...), place the vinyl on the seat, replace the screws provided by IKEA with a longer one and have a seat!

[Original submission in French]
Title: Tabouret 33 tours
Materials: tabouret marius, disque vinyle 33 tours
Description: Je ne me rappelle pas avoir vu ce ikea hack dans le blog donc je le poste!
Si contrairement � moi vous poss�dez une perceuse et du mat�riel ad�quat, la customisation de ce tabouret devrait prendre tr�s peu de temps.
Commencez par d�monter enti�rement le tabouret (� moins que vous ne l'achetiez neuf), faites un trou au centre du plateau � l'aide d'une perceuse (ou comme moi avec un simple tournevis mais cela s'av�re plus long....), remplacez la vis fournie par ik�a par une plus longue, placez votre vinyle sur le plateau et remontez votre tabouret!

~ Jonathan

Quick Nightstand

Materials: IKEA Marius stool

Description: The legs of the IKEA stool Marius are part of this really quick and easy DIY project. I simply screwed the legs to a little drawer similar to the IKEA fira drawers, which are unfortunately not available anymore. I got mine from a hardwarestore. The result is still a very fresh and quick new addition to our bedroom!

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~ Fenke, Berlin

Freeform crocheted Marius

Materials: Marius, cotton yarn, foam rubber

Description: I have crocheted a free form motif with birds. The pattern to the birds can be downloaded free at the knit and crochet site ravelry.com.

I first crocheted two long tubes to cover the legs of the chair. Then I made the birds and crochet and sewed them together to a big circle, and at last I crochet around the piece to make it big enough to fit the plate. I added a piece of foam rubber to make the chair a little bit more soft to sit on, and then I wrapped it with the crocheted cover.

~ Kristin, Sweden