It’s your LACKy day.

Ahh, the Ikea LACK. The humble little table that lacks pretentiousness, expensiveness and another word that ends with -ess (for the purpose of finishing this sentence). Heaviness? Tell me if you think of a good one.

Anyway! The LACK can’t be beat. It’s a sturdy little side table that costs somewhere around $10 if I’m not mistaken, and can be customized as many ways as you can imagine.  Today, let’s look at a few customization that would thrill the little Lego-lover in your life.

 

Kim topped her LACK hack off with edge to edge lego plates, and added a hanging bar and containers (also from Ikea) to the side for easy storage. Because a lonely Lego is an evil Lego. Any barefoot parent would agree.

 

Jill shrunk her Lego plate footprint to leave more room for a road. How cute. My little guy would probably zoom his cars around and around that thing until he passed out. See it on her blog Meet the Dubiens.

 

If you’ve got more than one kid, or more than one LACK, here’s a great idea from Zografia at Bisozozo.

Combine two to make one extra-long play table! Shoot, with how inexpensive they are, you could make a 25 foot long play table if you really wanted to. Please invite me over if you do, because I want to see that.

 

And for the kid more into tea parties and art projects than race cars and Legos, here’s a stunning little Ikea play table by Gemma.

She used a tiny piece of wallpaper to cover this tabletop, and then painted the chair to match. Aren’t the colors great? If you wanted to do something similar, don’t go buying a whole roll of wallpaper. You can order wallpaper samples, which are often very close to this size. But I could be wrong, and maybe they only send samples in 3×5″ sizes now, because you know how people like to work the sample system. Just like how they only give out 1/4 of a meatball at Costco now, instead of the whole ball. Just like a friend I once had who instead of ordering lemonade at restaurants, would order water and a bowl of lemons (complimentary) and then make her own at the table with packets of sugar. Some people.

Anyway! See exactly where Gemma got this wallpaper and more at The Sweetest Digs.