IKEA Bar Cabinet and Bar Cart Hacks

This Bar Cart will be made with 2 x VITTSJÖ laptop desks. They are relatively cheap so it will all be worth it in the end. A comparable bar cart can easily run from $300-$600 retail. So this will be a bargain when it’s all said and done. All-in-all it…

Materials: Norden sideboard I built the piece leaving the top off and did not assemble one of the drawers.  The one assembled drawer I centered in the top.  Modified the remaining pieces from the other drawer to construct the empty slots.  I cut the top in 3 pieces keeping the…

Materials: Ikea Fyndig Wall Cabinet One day when browsing the web I came across some images for side tables that were also mini bars. It’s a great idea, but the prices were astronomical. A quick brainstorm and googling for regular cupboards brought me to the Ikea Fyndig wall cabinet. A…

I had an opening of about 6″ in width between my IKEA pantry cabinet and my wall. After brainstorming on what to do with the gap, including closing it up with panels, I landed on making a slim wine rack. Given the tiny kitchen that I have, it was the…

I turned the IKEA TARVA 3-drawer chest into a DIY bar cabinet. It is probably easier to use an IVAR cabinet to hack into a bar cabinet. But I was gifted the TARVA dresser and I really wanted a bar cabinet. So with some IKEA hacking, elbow grease, and a…

A gorgeous DIY home bar from tall and short BILLY bookcases. It had been an aim of mine for some years now to build myself a bar at home for entertaining friends regularly. Finally I decided to stop procrastinating and just get down to it. This is how my DIY…

This one is going to be about hacking the FORHOJA (fhqwhgads). At first glance it isn’t too much of a looker, and I really wanted to put my liqour in it, so I took a look at a possibility (John Booze Maleficent Karting), and figured why not? Here is what…

Materials: Groland Kitchen Island, Hutton Wine rack I set out to make a custom bar for my apartment, and the Groland Kitchen Island proved the perfect starting point! I left off the towel bars when assembling and custom built a small shelf unit to subdivide the space beneath the counter…

We wanted some wine storage under our kitchen island and discovered the BESTÅ units are the perfect depth — but don’t offer a good bottle storage solution. There are a couple great wine rack hacks here, but none had a look that I liked. Instead, I took some OBSERVATÖR bottle…

Materials: EFFEKTIV cabinets (no longer available but the same can be done with many currently available IKEA cabinets) First, I designed a layout of cabinets that would be able to serve as a bar (incorporating a half fridge), electronics cabinet, and living room toy box for our little guy’s favorite…

The patio at my apartment does not have a lot of space so to maximize its usage I wanted to install a bar that was not attached to any external structures. Ikea Parts: PRÄGEL Countertop (1) – $80 Can GERTON Leg (2) – $25 Can EKBY STÖDIS Bracket (4) –…

Materials 2 each Kitchen Wall Cabinet and Doors and glass shelves, 4 Stainless Capita Legs, 2 Blankett handles After we moved to London I had two left over kitchen wall cabinets that had once hung above my step-sons bed for extra storage in his bedroom that were no longer needed.…

Materials: Expedit Capita legs from Ikea $60 for 6 Linmon table top from Ikea $45 Plywood backing from Lowe’s about $25 Primer & black paint for the backing, about $25 Special bolts for the Capita legs $7 Dioder lights from Ikea $80 for 8 lights Wine rack from Amazon, $35…

Materials: Capita Bracket and a Lack wall shelf, Capita Leg, Expedit 79×79 shelving unit (now it’s called Kallax) I got this job, to make a DJ booth for a coffee and wine bar. It had to be a bit of a loungy look, so I decided to do something with…

Items from Ikea: Kallax  2×4 : 202.758.85 Kallax 2×2 : 602.758.12 Expedit drawer Besta : 201.021.54 Besta : 501.021.43 Besta : 502.216.50 INREDA : 501.965.42 And then some Capita legs   Items from Ebay: Car vinyl gloss black Custom made Guinness logo   Items from Amazon : LED set up   Homedepot : Miscellaneous items…

Materials: STÄLL shoe cabinets (both the taller deeper 3-comparment one and the shorter and shallower 4-compartment one) plus EKBY JÄRPEN wall shelves and EKBY VALTER brackets I wanted to put in a nice home bar in my living room, but have very little space, depth-wise. When I was looking through…

The IKEA HEMNES wardrobe was perfect for our conversion into a bar cabinet. While the IKEA Hemnes wardrobe is primarily designed as a clothing storage solution, we felt it could potentially be repurposed as a drinks cabinet with some modifications. Furthermore, we didn’t need it anymore. Off the bat, it…

Materials: BESTA legs, BESTA unit, Capital brackets I wanted to find a modern and original yet practical solution for a kitchen table for my studio flat. Wherever I looked, I found none that appealed to me. So I decided to hack one myself. I used one BESTÅ unit (001.340.52), two…

Materials: DIODER, LINNMON, OLOV, STIG My boyfriend asked kindly if we could have a bar with stools in our living room. Sure, okay; but we had to work around a few issues. 1) It had to fit with another MDF plate which was already mounted. 2) Measurements, we were looking…

We wanted a cool bar for a corner of our “library room” (you remember the Gigantic Expedit-Bookcase?). As all prefab bar-furnitures did not fit our needs and/or were too expensive, we decided to build one of our own. Step 1: Find a free corner. Step 2: Buy wall cabinets (because…