About a year ago, we bought a KIVIK sectional from IKEA. We liked how comfy it was compared to some of the other IKEA couches, but we didn’t like how low it was.
We thought adding legs to the couch would be an easy upgrade. Boy, were we wrong! This little metal “leg” attached the sofa to the chaise, and there wasn’t a really good place to attach a leg there.
We came up with a simple solution: we built a few plywood legs that could be stuck inside an upside-down bed riser. We used nine of these bed risers, which I got at Target. They came in packs of four and were about $5 each.
Materials to lift the KIVIK Sectional:
- Plywood
- Bolts
- Bed risers
For most of the legs, we just had to place the bed riser over the existing leg. The problem was that tricky metal piece connecting the couch and the sofa. We needed a solution for that. Here’s what we came up with.
We used some scrap wood that we already had on hand and cut it to sit nicely on the bottom of the bed riser.
Then, we attached another piece of wood to that base to make a leg.
We secured it to the base of the couch, right next to that tricky metal piece. We did this for both the top and bottom leg on this side.
The only other problem we had was with the end piece that was attached next to the chaise. This other metal bar got in the way, but we just loosened the screws so we could fit the bed riser underneath the plastic.
See how the edge of the bed riser is under the plastic bar? Easy peasy. We put the rest of the legs on the couch — by simply placing the existing legs in them, and then that was it.
Then, we adjusted some of the other legs to make our bed riser hack work better for the other legs as well.
The whole project cost less than $20. Such a steal! My KIVIK sectional is now 3-4 inches taller than it was …. and I can’t tell you how much I love this “grown-up” KIVIK.
~ Jill Pauli
