hi everyone, it's Marianne
and welcome to My Wasteless Life
in this video i'm going to share with you
my IKEA greenhouse glass cabinet
so the ikea greenhouse cabinet is a trend it's been going on
plant community basically turning an IKEA glass cabinet
into a indoor greenhouse
and i've been looking into getting
an indoor greenhouse or grow tent
but you know
my room is very small i keep most of my plants in my bedroom
and a grow tent or an indoor greenhouse is just very unsightly
also it's made of plastic and i try not to use as many plastic as i can
especially in my plant hobby
and also when that gets dirty it's kind
of like you know the shower curtains when the calcium
and dirt has built up on it it's very hard to remove the dirt
off that plastic so i didn't really want to get that one
i was gonna try to diy one but it just seems
too much of a work
and then i saw jolene's video
on her doing her ikea greenhouse glass cabinet which is
the first time i've heard about this trend
and then i saw another video by
Planterior Decorator
i'll link her video up here and also
down the description as well as jolene's show she went through like everything
about it and how she set up hers
and there's also an instagram account
called ikea greenhouse cabinet i believe i'll also link it down in description
where you can see the different ways people have repurposed their ikea glass
cabinet into an indoor greenhouse and i got the
DETOLF one this is the cheapest one
among the IKEA glass cabinet and if you
are in search for this one
i'm telling you right now
they're very hard to find because of them are sold out and as you will see in
my vlog of me buying this DETOLF
IKEA glass cabinet everything was pretty
much sold out and this one is $60 USD
this is the cheapest one everything else
is like over a hundred dollars
and that's not within my budget but and
this one is also just the perfect size for my bedroom and i can fit so many
plants in it
but yeah let's get on with the video i'm
going to show you the vlog of me at ikea and then setting up this greenhouse
cabinet and then we're going to talk more about it
(GPS:slight left then your destination will be on the left)
gotta wear a mask
got my purse
the closest ikea to me is in college park maryland
i haven't been here since college
because i went to university of maryland
which is like a few streets away from here
i want this chandelier lamp in my room
but i already switched up to a track light
nice one to hang plants on
so this one is $9.99 each
so it's not bad and
you could just like stack them up as
much as you want
so in the ikea greenhouse glass cabinet
they put this at the back to be able to hang plants so
i think that's a good idea
so i might get one too
here is one of the glass cabinet
the FABRIKOR
and it's $169 USD. this one is out of stock though
but that's too expensive for me
and this is the
other one i think this is the same one jolene got
and it's $169 as well
this one is also nice too but it's 149.
and this one i think this is still like the most famous one
but it's $199 USD and also out of stock
this one is the white version
this is the one that i wanted
and it's perfect but it says out of stock
but the website says it's in stock so i
don't know
i'm gonna go check
showroom says out of stock
but it's still available in the bins
there is one set here
and i got the other set here
oh thank god
so just to make sure this is one
and this is two yeah
because it comes in two packages
let me go check out
a cute guy also help me load this *squeals*
i got it
i'm gonna go check out now so i was able to get the glass cabinet that i wanted
it said it was temporarily out of stock but luckily i checked the bin
anyways and i still found like two of them so i'm really excited i guess i'll
see you back at my home when i am assembling this glass cabinet
a few days later after i got the ikea DETOLF
glass cabinet i'm ready to set it up i
finally brought it up to my room
with the help of my sister it
is very heavy
so you really need two person to carry
it hopefully i'll be able to assemble it on my own
i think a can but it's just like carrying it was just too heavy
so here's the ikea DETOLF
they divided into two
packages but i just bought one glass cabinet
and i took out my vanity slash work table
and the plant shelf that i had in here so that i have some space
to assemble this
and i'll figure out later on how am i going to
arrange it but i think i'm just going to put it there for now or i might
put it over here because i eventually would put
led lights in it but i think i'm going to put it there for now so that it can
still get some natural sunlight
because i'm going to be filling up with plants
okay so i got the frame up already
that took a lot longer than necessary
i have to put the glass panels now
but i'm gonna need help with that so i'm gonna ask my sister to help me with that
and i'll get back to you once we have the glass panels up
i was able to install the door already
but this part is like giving me trouble
because as you can see
it's not properly fit in and i can't screw on top
i don't think it should matter because the other three was able to tighten
but we will see
but almost there
well i turned this shelf sideways
because when i open the door
i want it to just be leaning on the wall
and not hitting like if it's this way or
if it's like over here
it would hit the window and as
you know i have a dog
and he likes to run around in my room
because this is really more of his room than my room
so i kind of wanted to make this as safe as possible for him
and for my plants as well
and also because
i'm gonna need ventilation for this one
i haven't bought like a mini fan that i
can put inside
so i would most likely be opening the
door to having some air circulation
so i think
having it sideways is great
so the great thing about this ikea glass cabinet
is it is glass all the way through like
the back is still glass
which is great
i mean there's like some
weather stripping over here
which is not really that
visible especially after i put like a trailing plant over here it will cover
that up so no worries but yeah so i am going to
put in the shelves and gonna add some plants
so i'm thinking of transferring all of this plants
in here we will see if i can actually do that
but let's see
all right this cebu blue is not loving its new home
but we'll figure it out
so brought some more plants this is my reverted manjula that i just propagated
and i got it calathea
yes i got a calathea
calathea is in like my banned plants list
but when i was at Plants Alive i saw this
it was really pretty
and knowing that i'm gonna have this ikea greenhouse cabinet
maybe i could try to experiment with calatheas
and see how well i do with them
and i was gonna buy it but the owner
gave it to me for free
so yeah so thanks to jeff from plants
alive for this calathea
well i'm not going to do a very thorough
tour of the greenhouse
i am going to do my fall plant collection
really soon and i'm just going to make it
a part of that but here's an overview of it but
yeah so i fit so many plants
my original plant shelf the
boho wicker shelf is now empty
it has like two plants right now
and i'm really happy about that
because winter is coming
and space is always an issue for me during winter time and i know i
accumulated additional plants this year
even though i tried hard not to buy as many plants
i don't think i did buy as many plants
this year but we'll see once i do my fall plant collection video see how many
plants i actually have
i keep thinking that i
only have 50 maybe 60 plants now
but i won't be surprised
if it's a little bit more than that now
and the way they set up the ikea
greenhouse cabinet if you look through the instagram account
some of them SKADIS or pegboard at the back so that they could have more
space some take off shelves so that they could put like taller plants
but i thought the height between the shelves
is actually pretty good i was able to fit in some of my slightly taller plants
like my syngoniums and my
ficus audrey my monstera adansonii and
such so i might still take out one shelf
later on because i might put in some other plants that i'm still
propagating downstairs on the heat mat
i'm also thinking of maybe moving the
heat mat at the bottom shelf but i'm not getting
that until i install some led grow lights now
being in this corner of my room next to the south facing window as you can see
it still receive a lot of bright light
and some of them also add weather strips
just to make it really sealed
but i don't find it necessary because
this two is kind of really like sealed it and at
the door i don't really need it that much
as far as like humidity
some also insert humidifiers inside but
i don't think i'm going to need to put a humidifier because like i said
this is the smaller ikea glass cabinet
and i have this many plants
they're going to create their own
humidity and i don't want to increase the humidity way too high too because it
might cause rotting
and i have different types of plants
here that have different types of humidity level needs so i just want
them to create their own ecosystem
create their own
humidity and i'm gonna keep the door open during the day as much as i can
because air circulation in this situation is
important i agree with planterior decorator before lighting before
humidity the most important thing for this one is air circulation so
take care of that before anything else if you want to do something
like this as well
and like i said the ikea glass cabinet
is hard to find right now if you go to ikea if you luck out you might still
get it but another great place to find this is the facebook marketplace a lot
of other people found their ikea glass cabinet or something like this
it doesn't have to be ikea they found it on facebook marketplace and you get it
for a lot cheaper too
and also thrift stores you might be able
to find it in the thrift store as well but yeah so
that is my IKEA greenhouse cabinet
let me know what you think if you think
this is a cool idea because i think it is because it's so much better than
getting a grow tent or an indoor greenhouse that's made of like
plastic this looks more aesthetic this looks more presentable especially if you
have a small space where everything is in display
but yes i just want to share
this because when i found out about this trend
i thought it was such a really really good idea and the perfect solution
that i've been looking for to have some type of an indoor greenhouse
slash grow tent in my space that doesn't occupy a lot of space but could hold a
lot of plants
and this one eyeball i'm pretty sure
half of my plant collection is inside this ikea glass cabinet
and that is saying something
i think all of my small
to not so small plants are in here
the only ones that are not in here are
they already hanging up on my wall or
are my bigger plants
so i'm really happy about that this is such a space saver
such a lifesaver come winter time
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