IKEA Bed Hacks: Storage Beds, Small Room Solutions & DIY Upgrades
What are IKEA bed hacks?
These hacks can help enhance the functionality, aesthetics, and versatility of a bedroom space, providing unique and personalized solutions for various bedroom challenges.
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Improved IKEA bed with easy DIY tufted headboard
I am an interior designer and I love to do…
This is how I made a waterbed frame from IKEA KALLAX
This waterbed frame hack is very similar to the “A…
A full-sized bed built from KALLAX shelves + a DIY headboard
I had been thinking about buying a harder mattress and…
Upholster your headboard with woven canvas
After a year of waking up in the middle of…
IKEA Headboard Hacks
Some popular ways to upgrade an IKEA headboard is to use paint, cane webbing, or to totally reupholster it. This technique is especially good for headboards like the TARVA or BRIMNES bed.
A quick and easy method is to use wallpaper on the bed frame, allowing you to incorporate a wide range of patterns, colors and texture to your bedroom design.
Bissa Storage Bed Head
IKEA items used: 3x Bissa 2-compartment shoe cabinets Optional for…
Mandal Headboard, in 3D
This is a simple project, take a birch HAMMARP countertop…
BILLY as a headboard with storage
So we wanted something at the back of our bed,…
The Original IKEA Malm Billy Head Board and Under Bed Storage Hack
I desperately needed more storage space in the bedroom and…
All our IKEA Bed Hacks
Lofted / Raised MALM Storage Bed converts to 18″ of Storage!
Making a home comfortable is a challenge anywhere, but even more so in a 250sq ft NYC apartment. The bedroom measures 8ftx8ft, so please excuse the tightly cropped pics! Before this all started we were sleeping on a boxframe and mattress on risers with a bedskirt, and things just stuffed…
Put together a Stolmen 165×215 cm bed with storage
Materials: Stolmen, Lack, Fyndig Description: We wanted a bed with a lot of storage. We achieve it with : – 3x STOLMEN 110×50 cm – 3x STOLMEN 55×50 cm – 3x LACK 55×55 cm – 1 LACK 55×55 (cut in 3 parts) – 2 FYNDIG 220×60 – 2 LACK 30×26…
How to raise the Malm bed (FINALLY)
After reading through multiple ideas on how to successfully (and safely) raise the Malm bed; I came up with a viable and easy solution – and I wanted to share with everyone. I had read a post about using 4 beams as leg supports for the bed, but that will…
Malm Bed Diagonal Filler Piece
Materials: Malm Bed, 78cm Lack coffee table, 2 Adils Legs. Table saw, drill, screws, screwdriver Description: Placing a large bed along a wall you tend to create an aisle around it. If instead you place it diagonally on a corner, and four triangular spaces are created, including one behind the…
Hemnes Headboard Update
Materials: Hemnes Description: I originally bought the Hemnes bed frame because it was on sale and I can’t pass up a deal. Honestly, it’s sort of dull and made my bedroom feel sad. I wanted to get a fancy new one and was debating whether it was worth the $1,000+…
Bed Frame with Lots of Storage
Materials: 2 Malm 6-Drawer Dressers, 2 Malm 2-drawer chests, two boxes built out of MDF measuring 16x9x19 inches, 1 Sultan Luroy Bed Slats (Full size), 1 Full size mattress Description: My girlfriend recently moved into a New York City apartment, and our bedroom is very small. There is no closet,…
RAST Storage Bed Hack
Materials: RAST 3 drawer dresser x3 Description: I moved to a new 1 bedroom apartment recently without a lot of storage space, so I was inspired by this site to try my own hack. My initial plan was to buy a MALM 6 drawer like with this hack but when I went to Ikea…
Space saver bed
Materials: Stolmen chests and Lack tables Description: Living in a small one bedroom apartment, We needed a solution to put all our clothes in a single space so we could eliminate a chest of drawers that took up a third of that bedroom. The solution was a captain bed but looking around…
