IKEA PS 2012

*head explodes*

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S09898970/

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70211706/

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90206539/

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60206545/

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50211788/

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70214856/

hahaha that chest of DRAWERS DRAWERS DRAWERS would basically be the worst thing to introduce into my already miscellany-filled "system"

yeah on one level it's probably like the least practical chest of drawers i've ever seen, on another level it's LUV IT LUV IT LUV IT

and that yellow lamp ... it's like something out of TRON!

on a related note ... is there any way to hook up ikea track lighting to an outlet? i am already using the one fixture in my living room but i really want to add track lighting and it would be a million times more convenient just to hook it up to an outlet.

ok sorry a simple google says YES

i am trying to decide whether my living room needs a full on SANDA track lighting w/ diffuse spots onto the wall unit + a pendant lamp (BOJA or that crazy PS 2012 thing) over the rocking chair or just fuck the track lighting and put in a REGOLIT in the window and keep the living room lighting chill

everyone i've ever known who has had track lighting in their house sees it break somehow soon enough or even just a lightbulb burns out and then they don't use their track lighting anymore

it seems like lamps do a good enough job of lighting things

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80211664/

on a related note ... is there any way to hook up ikea track lighting to an outlet? i am already using the one fixture in my living room but i really want to add track lighting and it would be a million times more convenient just to hook it up to an outlet.

At some point the track light connects to mains power via the ceiling electrical box, with two wires (hot & neutral) and perhaps a third wire for ground (a.k.a. earth). You can replace that last electrical cord with bare wires with one that leads to a plug, or if it's already two or three separate wires by that point, solder on an extension cord using electrical tape or wire connectors in a box. Important thing here is not to connect low-voltage (12 volt) lamps directly to line voltage (120v or 240v). Ask anyone with electrical experience to help (you don't want to mess with unsafe DIY wiring jobs if you've never worked with wiring before), but this is fairly simple.

i've done some wiring but basically just ceiling fixtures and dimmer switches

my problem is that the ceiling electrical box is already in use for a fan and it's really hard to get into the crawlspace access, also there is some nasty nasty insulation shit up there that i don't want to get near

i was hoping i could just nail the track lighting into the roof and connect a cord ... i think ikea does sell an outlet line that runs from the track lighting to the wall socket

but i think rrobyn is making sense, also i am sort of afraid track lights are going to look ostentatious

The electrical work I described can be done from below in the room, not in the attic. At worst, you'd need to stick a small white surface-mount electric box on the ceiling near the track or most likely at the end or a corner where you connect the tracklight hardwire cord to an extension cord with a plug, and run the extension cord under a trough to an existing outlet.

Here's how it's done with another brand of track lighting:

http://www.lampsplus.com/products/pro-track-track-lighting-black-outlet-extension-cord__24324.html

Not sure if IKEA sells a similar converter but what I described earlier was a homemade version of this, with the large side of the cord be the connection to the tracklight and the other side already shaped to fit into wall outlets.

i don't get it though lee!

i have a ceiling electrical box in the living room w/ two leads and a ground. the ceiling fan is connected to those two leads and the ground. assuming i could splice in more wire onto those leads - or supposing i ran new ones from the wall connection - how would i run it through the ceiling?

i feel like i'm missing something ... do you mean run a line from the outlet along the exterior of the wall to a new ceiling box?

it sounds like yes ... ?

Yeah, you're thinking run the track lighting from your fan electric junction box; I was thinking surface-mounting a new box near the new track lighting and running an exposed wire (under a u-shaped cover) from the track across the ceiling, then down to your existing electric outlet. Hopefully an outlet already switchs on and off with a wall switch; otherwise a switch can be placed along the wire near where it plugs in.

would lamp and coat rack, sofa is kind of ugly though

and looks uncomfortable too. In real use, those back cushions would inevitably move off-center every time someone uses the sofa.

the chest/dresser absolutely rules though