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If IKEA Made Geeky Furniture Part 19: Gearhead Bedroom

Not exactly geeky (but could be given the Speed Racer or Megas XLR treatment), these designs are more for the gearheads. The bed frame is based on a car lift; the dresser is based on a tool drawer;...

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Geeky Chair Mat: NHL ’94

Update: Not to get your hopes up, but I may have found a way to make this chair mat a reality. Please stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks. Original post as follows: There are really no...

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If IKEA Made Geeky Furniture Part 20: LEGO Desks/Shelves

This puts a new spin on desk drawers or shelves: a small separate reservoir in the front of the drawer that would hold Lego. This adds a colorful decorative touch to your workspace, and provides that...

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If IKEA Made Geeky Furniture Part 21: Supply Crate Footlockers

So there are many names for this container: military footlocker, chest, trunk, tool case, storage container, and on and on. They all serve the same purpose: storage! But for this post I’ll refer to...

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Geeky Beds Part 5: Adventure Time

Seeing as Adventure Time’s Jake The Dog is a shapeshifter, I feel he would make an excellent bed frame. In actuality you could turn him into all kinds of furniture: a couch, dresser, dinner table, and...

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Ouija Board Coffee Table And Carpet

UPDATE: Almost a year later and I’m still getting a lot of interest in this design. If you absolutely want one, contact my friends at Tom Spina Designs for an estimate, they can build it for you....

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Star Wars Desk

I came across this old idea where I mentioned the landing pad from Return of the Jedi would make for a cool desk. I thought I’d put together a basic concept. Not only would you have a nice big surface...

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Super Mario Furniture

Here is another design from the cutting room floor, a couch and chair based on the first level from Super Mario 3. I put this together a few years ago, but it struck me as Pee-Wee’s Playhouse-ish in...

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Netflix Blu-Ray/DVD Shelf

Thought this would be a fun way to organize and display your Blu-Rays: a shelf that looks like the Netflix Instant homepage. Now you can organize your films by genres, while displaying your favorite...

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Breaking Bad Money Bed Sheets

Here is a design for your bed sheets that will make them look like stacks of money, specifically the large pile of cash that Huell and Kuby famously laid on top of in Breaking Bad. There are a million...

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Comic Book Panel Shelves

Yet another comic book shelf/display, however this is a very simple concept: the end result looks like panels in a comic book page. This is made possible by using shelves with vertical dividers,...

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Arcade Cabinet Standing Desk

Standing desks have been rising in popularity these past few years, so I thought I’d design one that is truly geeky: a standing desk that looks like an arcade cabinet. It’s the perfect standing desk...

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Homer Simpson Desk

A desk that looks like Homer Simpson’s desk which looks like a partially-eaten donut. Not sure I can add any more to that! The panels slide out of the way to reveal a flat desk surface. You could...

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Slurm Vending Machine Fridge

Thought I’d design a fun fridge that looks and works like a vending machine. This would be ideal for any soda or beer company theme (Coke, Nuka-Cola, Duff Beer), but for this post I figured Futurama’s...

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Batman Coffee Table

Here’s a coffee table design based on the “armory” from The Dark Knight that rises from the floor in the Batcave. In order to function as a coffee table, the armory appears to be only partially...

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Ghostbusters Bunk Bed

Actually started on this one before the Jurassic Park bunk bed, but stopped because I felt it looked too much like a School Bus. Thought I’d share it now because it’s still fun to look at. The ladder...

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Star Wars Landspeeder Bed And Other News

Big post today! Like the previous post, here is another bed design that I discarded a few months ago, because several others beat me to the punch. I’m posting it now because I felt there needed to be...

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Transformers Bunk Bed

Another bunk bed design, this one based on interim Autobot leader Ultra Magnus. His car carrier/transport alt-mode is ideal for a bunk bed configuration, with the truck cab being used for storage. If...

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Weird Ideas And Musings

Thought I’d post a few weird ideas that were sitting on the drawing board for awhile. From left to right: Transformers Vacuum – This is a weird one, but a canister vacuum that looks like Decepticon...

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Star Wars Bunk Bed

Jabba the Hutt’s throne room struck me as an ideal bed design, because the gangster and all his henchmen/guards also sleep in that room, so why not make a bunk bed out of it? For this bunk bed a more...

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