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.
BESTA Floating Credenza
Materials: BESTA shelf unit with high gloss, white doors two…
Expedit into Card Catalog
This is an was Expedit Shelf that was transformed into a card…
Moppe Apothecary
Materials: Moppe with 6 drawers and with large drawer Stacked…
Sideboard revival with LACK and KALLAX
Materials: LACK shelf with KALLAX bookcase We bought the shelves…
Coffee table and side table hacks
Lack Coffee Table with footrest
Materials: $29.99 Lack coffee table, 1×2 wood, foam, upholstery fabric,…
Mother and son Lack table
Materials: Lack table Description: 2 6mm mdf boards, side 18mm…
Double Lack Hack
Materials: 2x Lack coffee table, Circular Saw, 4x angle iron…
From a Lack table to a sweet little stenciled one
Materials: Lack side table cedar wood strips, stencil, wood stain,…
Vittsjo Laptop Table to Upscale Side Table
Materials: Vittsjo Laptop Table Description: Inspired by the stylish “C”…
Collector Display Case – Granas Coffee Table Hack
Materials: Granas coffee table Description: Maanzzon found this on Youtube…
IKEA Bookshelf Hacks
BILLY Bookcases transform into Queen Murphy Bed
We live in Manhattan where space is a premium. We…
How To Make a Billy Bookcase Look Expensive
Materials: BILLY Bookcases I started by looking up “billy Ikea…
MALM & BILLY Storage Wall
Storage-wall based on MALM and BILLY shelves. Me and my…
BILLY Built-Ins for home office
Materials: BILLY We added 1×8′s around the bottoms and 1×2′s…
Frosta X: Take 2
Splinternet revisits the fabulous Frosta X hack by Andreas Bhend.…
Backwards Billy TV Mount in Built-Ins (with Clock)
Materials: Besta shelf unit (47.25″ x 15.75″ x 25.25″) with…
All our IKEA Living Room Hacks
The de-squaring and shelf-itizing of an Expedit unit
Materials: One Lack shelving unit, one-4X4 Expedit and one-1X1 Expedit Confession, I have a love-hate relationship with the IKEA Expedit line. I purchased one in 2012 because it worked like a dream as a room divider, or more accurately as a “messy bed hiding area,” in my old studio apartment. However in…
The Angled-High Wall Unit
Materials: LERBERG Shelves (60×148 cm) dark grey To create this modular full-height wall unit, comprises of the Bottom Half and the Top Half portion. The hack is basically the Top Half part. In the picture, we used eight units in total, with four units on the bottom, and four units on…
A touch of shabby chic for HEMNES console table
Materials: HEMNES console table I love everything with the vintage (shabby chic ) touch. The idea here is to create a small door with window type design, which I used pine wood for the material. The four small drawers box on the top were made with wine crate, as the…
Manstad Hack to fit Avion Travel Trailer
Materials: MANSTAD For 3 years, we’ve wanted to add one of these to our travel trailer but it was about a foot too wide and our trailer is round in the corners and walls. We managed to make it fit by removing the long arm, cutting the storage box to…
A built-in library with HEMNES and STORNAS
Materials: HEMNES bookcase, STORNAS buffet The HEMNES bookcases are shortened at the bottom and placed on top of the STORNÄS buffets. All cabinets are bolted to the wall for extra security. To finish, there is the full width MDF board placed at the top and bottom of the sideboard and…
From PELLO to perch
Materials: PELLO chair The chair frame was dismantled and the metal frame and fabric seat set aside. The wooden frame was adapted by removing approximately 6″ (150mm) from the back edge of the armrest and base on each side. The cross members were shortened so that the overall width of…
I framed Jules
Materials: JULES chair The wheels on the swivel part of this chair began to disengage from their housing but after a few temporary fixes they obviously weren’t going to last much longer. I dismantled the chair and took the metal parts to our local recycling centre but I kept the…
Malm bench into ottoman
Materials: MALM bench I took a Malm bench put some legs and took the lid out. I trimmed high-density foam to cover the lid and upholstered it with fabric. I joined the upholstered top to the base with a continuous hinge. The basic idea came from here. ~ Alexandra
Catpedit, the Expedit hacked for cats and books alike
Materials: EXPEDIT This IKEA hack turns the 5×5 Expedit bookcase into a resting place for both cats and books with an integrated staircase. Our cats, Mojito and Tequila, love to climb and hide away in our furniture. The biggest piece of furniture in our living room is the 5×5 Expedit.…
From Marius to Ektorp Headrest
Materials: krakris pillow, Marius white stool Ektorp is a comfortable sofa but it has too low cushions to let tall people rest their heads. I saw a headrest in a showroom and had my idea! A Marius can become an headrest! That’s all folks.
Better than Besta
Materials used: 2 Ikea Besta bookshelves / 1 piece of Alder plywood (4′ x 8′)/ stain, screws, and glue We recently moved in to our new house in Phoenix area and the corner of our front room was super sad. We lasted about 5 months with this pathetic set up…
4-in-1 Ottoman
Materials: Kallax shelving unit, Rekarne coffee tabl Using the Kallax shelving unit and the Rekarne coffee table I built a 4-in-1 Ottoman. It can be used to store toys and games, the flat surface can be used to play games or can be drawn on with chalk, and it can…
Lack tables get new life
Materials: LACK x 2 We had 2 Lack tables that we were not using and wanted a coffee table with inside storage… We decided to re-use the lack and see what we could do with this. We combined the 1 full Lack table and one top (that was to become…
An Ancient Besta
Materials: BESTA I put on besta 3 wooden boards,belonged to an old library of my grandfather I screwed the wood with its original screws of 1870 and then I also put 2 old handles French
Make Ingolf bigger
Materials: INGOLF Lately we visited the Ikea here in the Netherlands Barendrecht and they were redecorating their restaurant. That meant a big plus for us as they were selling their used Ingolf stools for € 2,50 a piece in the as-is corner. That meant a no brainer and we decided…
Besta Based Credenza
The base is made of BESTÅ cabinets: 2 * BESTÅ extension unit ($50.00, Width: 47 1/4 “, Depth: 15 3/4 “, Height: 15 “) 1 * BESTÅ extension unit ($35, Width: 23 5/8 “, Depth: 15 3/4 “, Height: 15 “) Overall 5 cabinets to achieve a linear length of…
VITTSJÖ Nesting Table turned Chic Cocktail Ottoman
I wanted a cocktail ottoman to use as a table and footrest, in some great color, probably tufted, with a little gold to tie in with the rest of the room. Couldn’t find it. When I saw the surprisingly sturdy VITTSÖ nesting tables at IKEA I instantly knew how I was going…
Hacking BESTÅ cabinets into full wall-to-wall storage
We quickly decided on a BESTÅ cabinet to conceal all our belongings. However, we soon realized that the cabinet would likely accumulate dust on top, which posed a problem. So, once again, we gathered our tools to transform the cabinet into a wall unit. But first, we needed to construct…
Elevated long bookcase
Materials: 1 x 5 Expedit x 2 We have a long wall that we wanted to turn into a mini library area. We’re really into the mid-century modern clean design aesthetic. We didn’t want to spend thousands on furniture and couldn’t find bookshelf with legs to save our lives. We…
IKEA Built-In Bookcase wall (Billy, Effektiv, Lack)
This wall of 6 Billy bookcases (slightly cut down) and 4 Effektiv cabinets and 2 Effektiv drawer units was added under a new framed-in and dry-walled soffit/architrave topper and forward extended end pillar. This feature has up and down lighting & speakers, while there are display lights in the top…
