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.
Bookshelf or Fireplace? I Couldn’t Decide.
Materials: Two full-size and one narrow Hemnes bookshelves I had a…
Contemporary TV unit – Improvising with LACK!
There are many post & hacks that were done with…
DIY plywood doors for Ikea EXPEDIT shelf
Expedit shelf outer edges are hollow. You have to attach…
EXPEDIT Shelf into a Apothecary Console
Materials: EXPEDIT media cabinet This is an EXPEDIT Media Cabinet…
Coffee table and side table hacks
Hemnes Beautified Barnboard Coffee Table
Materials: Hemnes Square Grey Brown Coffee Table Description: I loved…
Lack TV Unit (again) Coffee Table
Materials: Lack TV Unit, 2x Lack Side Tables, Rill Caster…
A stencilled Lack coffee table
Materials: Stencils, paint, primer Description: Michael’s stencils and a weekend…
Silver coffee LACK table
Materials: Lack side table, leatherette, silver paint, furniture molding; hammer,…
Recycled Pallets and 2 Ikea Lacks Made an awesome Rustic Coffee Table
Materials: 2 old hardwood pallets and 2 IKEA lack tables.…
VH-YES Coffee Table (‘LACK’ing no more)
Materials: LACK Coffee Table, VHS Collection, Bit of Wood and…
IKEA Bookshelf 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…
The Angled-High Wall Unit
Materials: LERBERG Shelves (60×148 cm) dark grey To create this modular…
A built-in library with HEMNES and STORNAS
Materials: HEMNES bookcase, STORNAS buffet The HEMNES bookcases are shortened…
Catpedit, the Expedit hacked for cats and books alike
Materials: EXPEDIT This IKEA hack turns the 5×5 Expedit bookcase…
Hacking BESTÅ cabinets into full wall-to-wall storage
We quickly decided on a BESTÅ cabinet to conceal all…
IKEA Built-In Bookcase wall (Billy, Effektiv, Lack)
This wall of 6 Billy bookcases (slightly cut down) and…
All our IKEA Living Room Hacks
LERBERG² industrial sideboard
Few months ago I bought 2 Lerberg CD/DVD shelves. They ended being useless, since I don’t use the obsolete plastic discs anymore… What to do now with those shelves? Two Lerberg CD/DVD shelves + Oak floorboards = a perfect sideboard in a corridor! You will need: -2 IKEA Lerberg CD/DVD…
Diamond Tufted Kulla Pendant Lamp Ottoman
Materials: KULLA Pendant Lamp I was at IKEA going through there As-Is section and came across 2 Kulla Lamp shades for $5. These things are seriously sturdy, which made me think outside of the box about what else they could be used for. I actually published my own blog post…
Bestå goes Arabesque
I was trying to find a TV stand that would be 160x50x50 cm. The ones that I found were either far too pricey or would need to have doors open to control the AV receiver. And less than 50 cm deep. I first planned to hack Expedit but saw in…
Mid Century Style Credenza
Materials: FAKTUM I made this vintage style credenza using three Faktum (or Akurum) kitchen cabinets that I had in my previous flat. For some time now, I wanted a beautiful vintage teak credenza but the ones I found were always too expensive. So I thought I could give a makeover…
Multi-configuration Rotating Coffee Table
Materials: 3 Ikea Lack side tables 55x55cm; 1 Perfekt plinth; 2 lazy susan bearings; one pot of strong contact adhesive. Step 1: Cut the plinth into 4 equal lengths and attach together to form a square base. Cut a piece of mdf to size and nail onto the top. Step…
3 Ikea Tarva Dressers into 1 Shaker style dresser
Materials: TARVA dresser x 3 Here’s what I did: Used a chop saw to cut off the bottom of the skinny 2×2 legs (before assembling dresser) and replaced them with 4×4′s cut to 4″ high. Filled the dresser handle holds with wood filler and sanded to remove essentially the existing…
Hairpin Expedit for the hall
Unfortunately I didn’t take any in progress pictures because I was under some time constraints with this project. This is my first Ikea hack, but 99% of things in my bookmarks come from this very site. I didn’t really think out the pattern for the top of hack before I…
Ribba Shelf Upgrade
Materials: ORSA drawer fronts x 2, RIBBA shelves x 2, Hangers x 2, Screws x 6 Using two RIBBA (21 inch) picture shelves and two drawer fronts (I think Orsa 7 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches) from the as-is bin. I positioned the bottom of the RIBBA’s two inches from…
BESTA storage footstool
Since our couch was always covered with not-so-fancy fleece blankets and several cushions, we were in need of some extra storage. With the kids growing we could also use a footstool to be able to sit comfortably in the couch all together. Finally I bought a BESTA cupboard, put 4…
LACKing legs
Materials: Lack tables x 4; Grundtal spotlight set I made a nice chunky piece of furniture to hold my deep set top box. I joined the Lack tables to make a cube with simple metal brackets – the chunky sides made it easy to get square. I drilled some holes…
Reclaimed wood Billy
Materials: BILLY bookcase I took the shorter Billy book shelf and using the materials made two 2-part cabinets. I constructed the 16 drawers from reclaimed boards and glued cedar to the top of each cabinet to match the drawer fronts and to give it a nice top that would hide…
TOFTA Fireplace Surround
Used pieces of Besta Tofta Bamboo (cut piece for sides and draw fronts for top pieces) to cover ugly green tiles around fireplace. Then used Besta Tofta Black on floor for one piece gloss fireplace threshold. Granite estimate of $2800 finished all in for under $150.
Siamese RAST Twins
Having been inspired by many other RAST hacks we proudly present our own! Materials: – 2 RAST chest of drawer – 3 BESTA push openers sets – 2 pine wood boards (1225 x 300 x 18 mm) – 1 pine wood beam (888 x 50 x 50 mm) – 2…
Secret bookcase door
I used the Billy Bookcase. 3 x 30″ bookcase. 1 x 15″ bookcase. 1 Pax wardrobe with glass door The two sections on the right are fixed with a 1/2″ and 3/4″ plywood on the back for rigidity. The door has the same plywood on the back, this keeps the…
Modern Expedit to Vintage Printer’s Cabinet
I love the look of those vintage printers drawer units. But, who actually has a bunch of flat things to store?! I already had a couple Expedit units in white and decided “what better way to break in my new miter saw but an Ikea hack on these buggers?!” How:…
Ikea PS 2012 locker redesigned as TV-multimedia Cabinet
Even before the assembly of the locker: – Cut the 4 feet about 9,6 cm to decrease the height (if necessary) – Dry the gates using aceton – Remove the lock on each door – Sand the externals aspects of the doors (Sandpaper 180) – Paint the doors using acrylic…
One Big Billy
We started with 6 Billy bookshelves surrounding our TV – One 15″ and one 30″ on either side and two wall-mounted ones above the TV. We also used the extenders at the top of vertical Billy bookshelves to make them even taller. First, we put the shelves where we wanted…
Escher Lizard Lack Hack
One day, I rested my lizard spiral pattern on my Lack side table and an idea was born. The pattern is laser cut from 3mm plywood and is based on the Escher image “Development II” I stained 3 sheets of laser plywood with wood dye, Mahogany, Jacobean Oak and Antique…
Trifecta Perfecta – My Simple Expedit Hack
I wanted to somehow create a ‘balancing cubes’ effect with the Expedit line for a unique bookcase. I thought about how to hack the single cube expedit shelving unit and eventually decided on using the long boards of a 1×1 expedit wall shelf combined with the shorter boards of 2…
DIY Coffee Table from Malm bed slats
After buying a new bed, I needed to get rid of our old IKEA Malm bed. When it came to the bed slats, I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I decided to upgrade the wood, which was in great condition, by building myself a coffee table. I wanted something rustic…
