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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Geek haven – Ikea robotic chair and table
Description: This is not my hack, but I found this link today and thought I would pass it along.”Conceived by NYU ITP student Adam Lassy, the ‘IKEA Robotics’ is an interestingly cool seating and table that encourage lazier living at your beck and call via a clever technological tweak.” See…
Gorm chairs
Materials: Gorm shelves, chair frames, circular saw and other assorted tools, screws Description: I am lucky to live in a university town that sells surplus equipment to the public. I’ve gotten most of my chairs there…some really nice ones, too. These chairs started out very nice, but were used as…
Stefan Rocks
Materials: 2 Stefan chairs Description: The chair is made from two Stefans, one cut in half and a 85mm slice of the other inserted into the middle of the first one. This makes the chair wider and more suitable for a rocking chair with arms. The front legs and rails…
Gorm window seat
Materials: Gorm shelves, seasonal chair cushions Description: I got the idea for this from the Instructables post on Gorm benches Changes made were: I used the wider Gorm self, and rather than plywood I used 2 x 12’s for the top. Oddly, the 2 x 12 ( a piece of…
Modern slat coffee table
Materials: 2 Molger Benches and 1 set of 8″ Capita Legs Description: To recreate this coffee table all you have to do is follow these simple steps: 1) Carefully chisel off 6 slats off one of the bench tops which will be used for the sides later on. 2) Clamp…
Tullsta’s new legs
Materials: IKEA TULLSTA Old chair base The back legs on the TULLSTA chair quickly began to weaken and threatened to break if someone sat down too quickly. We had an old rocking chair from the ’70s; orange, worn and ugly. But I was very lucky because it had an excellent…
From Sweden to Morocco
Materials: Erslev rug in light green Description: I created a stencil by tracing a Moroccan tile shape onto a piece of card stock and cutting out the negative space with an Exacto knife. I placed the stencil on the rug starting in the top left corner. I used a washable…
Lack spring table
If you’re looking to add a splash of colour for Spring, here’s an easy and cheap way to do it. Sandra shows us how on her Lack bedside table. I took a white Lack side table I had and some post cards (from postal free), glued them on the table…
Room divider for a loft with IKEA BESTÅ
A room divider helps in using the empty space in a loft, turning the open plan into functional areas. Kevin divides up the loft space with this clever IKEA BESTÅ hack, separating the sleeping area from the home office space. The versatile room divider does double duty as storage for…
Mondrian coffee table
Lee had the idea for a long time but finally got round to designing and ordering supplies for the hack. Basically it is a Lack coffee table with a tile top. Quite a Mondrian, isn’t it? Related hacks: – Mosaic Lack coffee table – A touch of glass for the…
The many faces of Rickard
Emily has been hard at work modding the Rickard chair for her thesis. I like Citizen Cane, a nice mix of old and new. Pretty solid ideas, I must say. She says, “I’ve been hacking away at the $19.99 Rickard task chair. I’m working on my MFA Design thesis exploring…
IKEA Zebra bench and coffee table in one
It’s a bench but Melanie makes it do double (and triple) duty as a coffee table and sometimes computer table. I like that the “tables” are removable and can be repositioned where you want them to be. She writes: “This is an IKEA hack I made some time ago. I’m…
Do a Panna?
Over at Apartment Therapy, the good folks came out with an idea on turning the humble (and cheap) Tullsta into a designer Tokujin Yoshioka Panna chair. Batting, moving blankets and a staple gun may be all you need to replicate your own. What do you think?
Side chairs into mid-century-ish club chairs
Tim gives a new mid-century twist to these side chairs. “I’m not sure what the Ikea name for these side chairs is, but they were old and wobbly and the back legs were breaking off. I made a simple base out of 2×10’s and used the original arms from the…
Skruvsta office chair makeover
Maya turns the Skruvska swivel chair into quite a stunner. “I bought a badly-scuffed white Skruvsta office chair in the “scratch-and-dent” section of Ikea in Israel, as well as some fabric remnants. I used these remnants to recover this chair entirely, adding some extra padding to the chair cushion. I initially covered it without…
Get into the hot seat
This has got to be the first Mercedes Benz inspired hack. Nico Mertens adds seatheating to the Poang. Now, a hack you can really warm up to. “I have pimped my Ikea Poang with heated seating and extended the headrest to suit my purposes. The idea was born when I…
Besta small entertainment unit
Dez hacks a floating entertainment unit from the Besta. “I haven’t really done anything revolutionary here, but I thought I’d share how I used a Besta extension and hung it as a floating entertainment unit. It makes for a nice a clean installation for a master bedroom and gives it…
Retractable Lack coffee table
How about a side table to flips up when you need it and hides quietly when you don’t. Here’s what Colin did with his Lack side table. The side table is to place all the goodies when friends come over for some poker. It’s quite simple to do. Just fit…
A chair to rock your Summer
Alex’s Emmabo Rocking Chair finally gave up its ghost. But he resurrects them into this outdoorsy deck chairs. How perfect for summer. He says, “I’ve retrofitted wooden slats to an Emmabo Rocking Chair frame. It’s now suitable for outdoor use as a deck chair. The metal frame is salvaged and…
Coffee Table
A really slim coffee table. Great if you have a small space and need something to just fit right in. KayJay says, “It’s fairly small and not a functional for someone with a large space. My living room area is tiny. I mean… HELLA TINY… like, five steps wide tiny.…
