IKEA Living Room Hacks
When it comes to furnishing your living room, IKEA is a go-to destination for many. With its affordable prices and stylish designs, IKEA furniture is a popular choice for those looking to create a comfortable and functional living space.
But there's the risk of your living room looking like an IKEA showroom if you use mainly IKEA furniture. With a little creativity and a few DIY skills, you can take your IKEA furniture to the next level and perhaps even get a few people saying, "I can't believe it's IKEA!"
From easy IKEA hacks like adding new legs to your sofa to creating custom built-in storage solutions, there are so many fabulous ways to tweak your IKEA pieces into pieces that are uniquely you.
In this page, you'll find some of the best IKEA living room hacks to inspire your own DIY projects and help you create a space that's both stylish and functional.
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Whether you're looking to add some personality to your space or simply want to make the most of your IKEA furniture, these living room hacks are sure to inspire. So why not take a closer look and see how you can create a space that's stylish and functional?
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Living Room Storage
You not only create a storage system that's tailored to your living room and the items you need to store, but also seamlessly match your style and taste.
Angled wardrobe door for closet or sewing cabinet
The problem with most of the walls in my apartment…
Stunning Nautical Ikea Rast Hack for the Beach House Lover
IKEA items used: Ikea Rast I recently decorated my sons…
NORDLI hack: Drawers hiding useful tables
IKEA items used: IKEA Nordli modular drawer chest A simple…
IKEA EXPEDIT turns into beautiful blue sideboard cabinet
Open shelving to sideboard cabinet with doors. I used to…
Coffee table and side table hacks
From bed slats to coffee table to bookcase
I love the pine wood slat from IKEA … it…
LACK-LINMON Coffee table with added height
Materials: Lack 90×55, Linnmon top 120×60 and 4 Capita legs…
Lack Coffee table Remix
Coffee table made using 2 high gloss LACK tables and…
Changing the shape of the Lack coffee table
I made these tables from IKEA stuff. Each table is…
Concrete Coffee Table
This is best done with 2 people. It’s damn heavy…
Two Fjellse beds make a living room
Fjellse-sofa 1. I assembled one bedframe with two Headboards. 2.…
IKEA Bookshelf Hacks
PAX/BESTA Asymmetrical & Elegant Dining Room Built in
IKEA items used: PAX 39x13x93 PAX 19x13x79 PAX 19x22x93 (used…
Cool DIY IKEA retro string shelving hack
I’d been looking at vintage string shelving units but they’re…
Exact size IVAR shelf system
My Mom knows that I am good with the IVAR…
LACK TV unit into bookshelf bench
Materials: Used lack TV stand (90x26cm, £9), and 2 x…
KRITTER kid chairs turns into a shelf
Funkynality found a set of KRITTER children furniture. When a friend…
HEMNES Custom Built-in Storage Unit
IKEA items used: Two HEMNES glass door cabinets with drawers,…
All our IKEA Living Room Hacks
How I hacked a classic IKEA Bestå HiFi Storage Cabinet
I made this Media/HiFi Storage Furniture using an IKEA Bestå and some furniture board. I wanted this furniture to have a natural and basic yet modern look. The furniture board was therefore kept untreated (no oil, wax or paint, raw edges and some irregularities). The fact that the board pieces…
Turn BILLY bookcases into bold, large wall art
I was tired of looking at rows of DVDs, blu-rays, games etc. in my BILLY bookcases … so I decided to add doors to conceal everything. However, I wanted to make it more visually interesting. I decided to turn the cases into one large piece of art. After looking around,…
Multi-purpose Wooden Partition from STOLMEN and LADE
We wanted a stabilising structure as the backing for our wardrobe. The Ikea’s Mandal headboard appeared to be the first choice. However, it had been phased out from our local stores. So we decided to build one from scratch. Happy with the end result. Even happier considering the total costs…
Infinity IKEA mirror in LACK coffee table
IKEA item used: LACK Coffee Table We like the LACK Coffee tables, our first LACK was damaged because I sat on it, and it broke in the middle. After a couple of weeks we have bought another one and took much care about it. But after a small party my…
A made-to-measure KALLAX corner bookcase
Materials: 2 Kallax shelves 4×2 boxes 2 Kallax shelves 4×4 boxes 12 doors, 3 baskets 4×2 drawers. Price : 800€ Time : 30 hours We first looked at different shops to buy a giant bookcase for our living room. It was too expensive so we decided to build it. Obviously,…
Finally! A Double Sliding Doors BESTÅ
Materials: 2 BESTÅ Shelf unit (120x40x64) ( 40€ each ) ILSENG 4 panels for sliding doors frame ( 38 € ) Aluminium profile E 5 mt ( 12 € ) Saw Glue I needed a double sliding doors solution for two BESTÅ shelf unit and since IKEA doesn’t allow that…
Sweet Stolmen Seating
IKEA items used: Stolmen Drawers — 2 wide, 2 narrow; Varde Wood panel After removing the baseboard trim from the wall, we measured the trim height, and ripped 2x4s so that the combined height of the 2x4s and the Stolmen frame matched the height of the baseboard trim. We built…
Recycled old EXPEDIT Shelf into a Storage Bench
IKEA items used: 10 year old EXPEDIT Shelving Unit First took apart the shelf. Took 3 small shelf pieces for the sides and middle. Middle will help with supporting of the door. The thin sides of the shelves is the front wall and floor of the bench. The thick top…
IKEA Groland Kitchen Island Bathroom Vanity and Coffee Table
This is really two projects from Ikea Groland kitchen island. Project 1 We created a stone bowl sink granite topped bathroom vanity from the Ikea Groland kitchen island. We cut down the legs to put the top bowl sink at the height of a normal counter top. We stained the…
Gliding top cantilever LACK coffee table with bin lids that convert to TV trays
IKEA items used: Two black LACK TV UNITS Article Number: 902.432.97 Two KUGGIS bins Article Number: 202.802.07 two LJUDA place mats 002.359.99 Assemble one LACK TV UNIT, except for shelf. Sand and paint black two 2″ x 2″ x 10″ mounting boards for glides. Purchase two 10″ fully extending drawer glides.…
PAX/BESTA Asymmetrical & Elegant Dining Room Built in
IKEA items used: PAX 39x13x93 PAX 19x13x79 PAX 19x22x93 (used for side panels only) BESTA 15″H on bottom row, 25″H all others BESTA glass top LACK shelves DIODER lights We have a large dining room, but a lack of storage in the rest of the house. We decided to use…
Bekväm Chair project
It was an imposed project during my first year in design school. To re-interpret the Bekväm, create something new.. but we should still be able to recognise the Bekväm, by his shapes, edges, wood, texture.. So I decided to elevate it, and switch the footrest to seat, delete the seat.…
Kids room entertainment and toy storage unit
IKEA Items used: Hemnes TV stand, 2 Hemnes bookcases, and Hemnes Wall/Bridging Shelf As the kids got older we needed to update their playroom to include an entertainment center for watching movies and playing video games, but it also needed to include plenty of storage for toys, books, etc (its…
Cool DIY IKEA retro string shelving hack
I’d been looking at vintage string shelving units but they’re always so expensive so I thought I’d try a DIY. I’m sure this could be tweaked and improved quite easily as I came up with it on a whim but I’m pretty pleased with it! Shopping List IKEA SPRUTT shoe…
Exact size IVAR shelf system
My Mom knows that I am good with the IVAR system. Every time she is at our house, she is asking me how did I do this, how did I do that… And when she wanted an exact size shelf system for her teeny living room I simply could not say…
IKEA GORM lounge hack
Correction: The IKEA item used is referred to as the IVAR. It should be the GORM (now HEJNE). So I’ve been an IKEA fan for a while however I haven’t really dug to deep into IKEA hacks until I created my own, now I’m hooked. My hack was not immediate,…
LACK TV unit into bookshelf bench
Materials: Used lack TV stand (90x26cm, £9), and 2 x Gurli vision covers in green (50x50cm, £2 each) and an Inner cushion pad (50×50, £1.50). Plus some ‘sew and stick’ Velcro and scrap fabric. Total £14.50 Instructions: Assemble the TV bench, but when it comes to banging the placement for…
KRITTER kid chairs turns into a shelf
Funkynality found a set of KRITTER children furniture. When a friend who has a little boy wasn’t keen to take them on, she promptly went to work. She threw out save the table but transformed the chairs into compact shelving. Here’s what she did: 1. Wash and clean the chairs. 2.…
HEMNES Custom Built-in Storage Unit
IKEA items used: Two HEMNES glass door cabinets with drawers, Four HEMNES narrow (19 1/4”) bookcases, One HEMNES wide (35 3/8”) bookcase While giving my home office a makeover, I realized we badly needed some built-in storage. We had a long alcove in the wall that was the perfect size…
TRANSFORMERS! Bulk-Storage-Bed into a Lounge!
Beds with a lot of bulk storage is a classic Ikea hack. Our bed design is SO easy that anyone can do it. No alteration of the original Ikea furniture, virtually no work, it’s THAT easy! But when we made our bed, we would never have guessed that our hack…
