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.
Most Popular Posts on Living Rooms
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?
Jump directly to these categories:
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.
Coffee table and side table hacks
Turning new tables into vintage farmhouse finds
Materials: MARKOR sofa and side tables Description: To make my…
Klux4
Materials: Klubbo Nesting Table, 1″ wood screws, 2x4s, wood stain,…
EXPEDIT beach at home coffee table
Materials: EXPEDIT coffee table, silicone sealant, bird sand Description: I…
How to make a low side table
Materials: Lerberg Description:Beate found this video on Youtube on making…
IKEA Ramvik Coffee table decorated with POGs
My girlfriend recently discovered a box full of POGs in…
Stencilled side table
Materials: IKEA Frosta stool, PLAID Acrylic Paint, Stencil Brush, Plaid…
All our IKEA Living Room Hacks
Upholstered Malm Console Table
Materials: Malm Console Table, staple gun, 4 yards of fabric, fabric glue, tack strip Description: Cut fabric in half length-wise (so it is half of the 54-inch wide fabric). 27-inches perfectly covers the top and sides of the Malm table. Lie fabric down flat on the floor, upside down, and…
RE-LACK-IT
Materials: LACK tableDescription: Cool coffee table design. It’s very easy to do, you only need to glue the tables that appear in the photo. Hope you like it! See more of the Ikea Lack coffee table. ~ Guillermo Sanz, Málaga, Spain
Karlstad Swings
Materials: Karlstad Chairs and Loveseat, U-Channel, Cables Description: We wanted to create a fun sitting area for employees of our advertising agency to brainstorm creative ideas for clients. We took standard Karlstad furniture, bought some metal U-channel, plastic coated cable and suspended them 8″ from the floor. ~ Bronson Smith,…
TJUSIG Shoe rack turned small bench
Materials: TJUSIG Shoe rack, some pieces of lath, some oak, Description: Just wanted to share a small bench I made from a TJUSIG Shoe rack. I realise that IKEA also sell a bench like that (with the same name) but I didn’t want it for 2 reasons; it’s too big…
New modifed LACK tables
Materials: LACK Tables, LACK wall shelfs & VIKA Curry legs Description: Main Table: Cut the 8 LACK tables and 2 LACK wall shelves (shelves to white table edge on the pictures) to fit as the picture shows. Use screws and heavy duty silicon to bond the tables together. Make two…
Old chair – new chair
Materials: An ancient Ikea office chair (the new version of it is called Snille, I have no idea what this was called back then): fine sanding paper, spray primer, spray paint, 2 Nedda chair pads, universal glue. Description: Sand chair with fine sanding paper before painting, spray paint with primer,…
Rover/Poang Chair
Materials: Leather Rover car seat and Ikea Poang chair frame Description: I was inspired by Ron Arad’s 1981 Rover chair, which utilised a leather Rover car seat with galvanised steel scaffolding poles for the legs and arm rests. My Ikea Hack follows the same theme utilising a black leather Rover…
Lack coffeetable drawing
Materials: Lack, black marker, Glitsa Description: We have a Lack coffee table that has been used for six years, and unfortunately there were some small damages on the tabletop. I first found it a too big and too white surface to put in our new living room, but I did…
Bernhard chair to barstool
Materials: Bernhard dining chair Description: Well, I recently created this for my home- a piece for the space off the Kitchen needed a BarStool- and since IKEA’s “As-Is”/Returns area just happened to have this white Bernhard Dining chair for sale for $59.00 US (normally 139.00 US) I thought- what…
‘Karlstad sofa’ becomes a ‘Karlstad sofa-bed’
Materials: Karlstad two-seat sofa Description: I had a problem. I was in desperate need for sofa bed for my quests, but I didn’t find any proper model anywhere. And I liked my Karlstad sofa very much. So I had an idea. I transformed the left side armrest in a way…
Goliat drawer unit bench
Materials: 2 Goliat drawer units, thick foam, upholstery material, 2 sided sticky tape Description: 1. Remove the casters from the 2 Goliat drawer units 2. Put them next to each other in a corner 3. Make a pillow case from upholstery material to cover the thick foam cut out to…
Another Frosta Side table
Materials: Frosta Stool Description: We needed something to hold our drinks while on the couch. We live in a small apartment so we didn’t want a coffee table that takes up floor space. But didn’t want to pay $199 for the STOCKHOLM side table. I saw a few Frosta hacks…
Minecraft-inspired window seat/stools
Materials: Solsta Pallbo stools, Hampen Rug Description: I wanted a window seat in my spare room that could double as spare stools for when visitors come around. With limited space, the Solsta Pallbo stools were small enough to do the trick. I realised their shape and colours (2 dark grey…
Fur Desk Chairs
Materials: Torbjorn Swivel Chair and 2 RENS Sheepskin Rugs Description: I “re-upholstered” 2 Torbjorn Swivel Chairs in faux-fur with 4 RENS Sheepskin Rugs total. I laid one small fur rug along the front of the chair and one on the back. I used about 25-30 safety pins to pin the…
Lack and stripes
Materials: Lack coffee table Description: I have cut various stripes of paper from newspaper, giftwrap and other recycling items and I have pasted, with glue mixing with some drops of water, on the top of my LACK coffee table, like a decoupage. For easier cleaning of the surface I have…
FrankenIKEA Fireplace Surround
Materials: Lack Shelf, Lack Flooring, Akirum Cabinet, Rubrik Panel, Nexus Door, Ikea Wall Sconce Description: When we bought this condo, it had a builder installed fireplace in a simple drywall box with niche opening on the left side. The only trim was the slate surround. It was bare and ugly.…
Ektorp storage using Trofast
Materials: Ektorp sofa (2seater) and 4 Trofast containers Description: Requirements: 1x Ektorp Sofa 4x Trofast containers (42*30*10) (if needed) 4x Trofast lid 5x 63 cm pieces of plastic or metal H-profile, width of H-profile must be > 10mm to allow the rim of the Trofast to slide trough. a lot…
Frosted Ramvik
Materials: Ramvik Coffee Table, Frosted Privacy Window Film Description: I was about ready to replace my Ramvik coffee table today. When it’s clean, it’s an awesome looking piece and I love having such large drawers. My problem is that it only stays clean for about an hour. Dog hair and…
The ‘Bertil’ Bench
Materials: Bertil Chair and Ikea supplied fixings/hardware 1200mm x 400mm x 22 mm plywood sheet 1200mm x 45mm x 20mm pine 1200mm x 20 x 20 pine Scrap bits of pine PVA wood glue Wood screws Paint Tools: Jig Saw Cordless drill Tape measure Screwdriver ‘F’ Clamps Description:Matt halved a…
Akurum Pantry and Base into Window Seat
Materials: Akurum Pantry and Base Cabinet Description: I made a plinth out of 2 x 4 lumber 3.5 inches shorter then the 2 feet width pantry. I faced the 2 x 4 s with Ikea Akurum toe kick. Next I screwed the base cabinet and pantry together and placed it…
