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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All our IKEA Living Room Hacks
Alex Credenza
Materials: Alex Drawer Unit (40196241) & AVSIKT Roll-front cabinet (#00158439) Description: I have for a long time wanted to have an old style credenza with modernist influences. I though the Alex file cabinets were very elegant and often overlooked so i wanted to utilize them for this hack. The Alex…
EXPEDIT board in IKEA sale corner to a nice coffee table in my home
Materials: 1PC – EXPEDIT Board AUS$19, 2 Pack of EKBY BJÄRNUM Bracket 9, 2 Pack of $15.00/2 pack, 8 Pcs screw nuts that suit the thickness of the board (Not included with bracket), 4 Pcs of metal nuts from EKBY BJÄRNUM Bracket Description: 1. Turn the board upside down. 2.…
Lack Torrone Table
Materials: Lack coffee table, wood glue, wrapping paper, shellac Description:1. Lack coffee table was built as per instructions. 2. A one inch border was measured out around the table and marked with graphite pencil. 3. A corresponding rectangle was cut from a super snazzy wrapping paper. 4. We used burlesque…
"Minibar" Ikea Style
Materials: Expedit, Dioder, Hutten, Rill Description: I wanted to have a small bar inside my living room. So I decided I take a 2×2 Expedit in white, sawed a “Hutten” down to only 6 bottles, they fit now perfectly inside the Expedit. Painted them white for a better match. Used…
Golden Gate Coffee Table
Materials: Lack coffee table Description: Decided to hack my Lack coffee table after seeing a cool jukebox table in an art gallery that was _way_ out of my price range. I used: Lack coffee table, contact paper from a local shop, and a wall decal of the Golden Gate bridge.…
Tray table
Materials: Ikea Stockholm tray, Hutten wine rack, paint, double adhesive tape Description: In Sweden it’s very popular with tray tables (= Brickbord). The price is about 100 EUR/140 USD or more. My tray table cost 25 EUR/34 USD. (I already had the paint and the tape) Instructions: Paint and assemble…
Turn your studio apartment into a 1 bedroom with IKEA PAX
My girlfriend and I bought and moved into our first apartment, with a tight budget we couldn’t afford anything bigger than a studio apartment. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to have their bed in their living room, so we brainstormed. We discussed every type of foldaway bed and room divider.…
Fireplace/media storage/shelving from IKEA Kitchen
Materials: Akurum cabinets, doors and wall panels; Ekby Järpen floating shelving, Description: My new loft was basically three blank walls and 15-foot floor to ceiling windows. It sorely needed a focal point, so I designed this combination fireplace/media storage/shelving unit to give it some excitement. I hired a contractor to…
Lack bench/lounger
Materials: Lack coffee tables Description: This is a bench made from the ubiquitous “Lack” coffee table. We had several kicking around and I found the rest for $4-6 a piece on Craigslist. Each one is cut in two, filled with expanding insulation foam and covered with latex paint (for waterproofing).…
Spring Back Banker’s Chair
Materials: 4 laminate bent Ikea legs and two seats from antique banker’s chairs Description: My friend Veronica gave me two Ikea chairs she had in her apartment in Hollywood. They were laminate bent leg living room chairs that had no arms. The cushions smelled like cat pee so I threw…
Lilliberg Futon
Futon ready! Sofa again! Materials: Lilliberg 3 person sofa Description: I bought a Lilliberg 3 seater sofa frame by itself because it was on sale. I had an old metal futon that was falling apart so I used the hinges on the futon to turn the Lilliberg sofa into a…
Henrikdal does a wheelie
Materials: Henriskdal bar stool, castors, Bemz slipcover, saw, drill, screws, screw driver Description: This is a short and sweet one. We liked the look, size and shape of the Henriksdal bar stool for the Bemz Inspiration Store but were finding it was impeding movement. Plus, its dimensions were not quite…
Customised Ikea Billy
Materials: Billy, Paint Description: We didn’t want a plain white shelf in our living room as we were afraid that it appeared to ‘cold’. So the goal was to choose a background colour that underlined the warm colours of our room but still made a modern impression. Strangely, in the…
Another Lack hack: Dual ottomans
Materials: Lack end table, Capita legs, plywood, foam, spray adhesive, cordless drill/screwdriver, saw, glue Description: We moved into a new apartment and found ourselves with one too many Lack end tables and no ottoman for our new couch. Instead of dumping the old Lack, we decided to buy another and…
The "Sweden meets Italy" decoupage chair collection
Materials: chair, prints of paintings, PVA glue, varnish Description: I decoupaged my favorite Italian artists on to Ikea chairs, and then varnished them. (sorry, I don’t recall the name of this particular chair; I looked online and didn’t find it…could it be no longer in stock? I did these about…
STIKZ Room Divider
Materials: 2×4 Expedit, SMYCKA (bundle of sticks) Description: I needed a room divider for my studio apartment; the piece that I created served to set off my “living room” from my “boudoir”. I purchased a black/brown EXPEDIT and the SMYCKA decorative bundle of sticks from IKEA and four pieces of…
Midcentury modern Expedit side table
Materials: EXPEDIT Insert with 2 drawers, (2) 2-packs of adjustable BESTA Legs, INREDA storage with 4 compartments, ¾” plywood, edgebanding for plywood; tools> panel saw at your friendly local wood supplier (thanks Owl Hardwood) or saw with high quality plywood cutting blade, biscuit joiner borrowed from your woodworking friend (thanks…
Stainless steel coffee table
Materials: Drill with a phillips head attachment, Vika Hyttan table top length 47 1/4 width 23 5/8 price 99.00 (located in the desk section), one pack Grundtal legs. I used 16 1/8 price 25.00 or less depending on height you choose (located in the bathroom cabinet section) Description: Wanted a…
Kitchen table gone couch table
Materials: Discontinued Ikea kitchen table, Gabbro stone slab, Rill (small) casters, wood screws Description: I wanted to tailor a couch table to my needs – with the right height, with a very sturdy tabletop and with swivel casters. At that time an inexpensive and simple kitchen table was available at…
Industrial-Modern guest chairs
Materials: LAVER stackable chairs Description: Materials include: black spray paint for plastic surfaces, painter’s tape, painter’s protective plastic, glue stick and 2″ stencils. Instructions: – glue stencils to chair backrest. – cover remained exposed area with tape & plastic. – spray with paint. – let dry 15 minutes. – gently…
