20 IKEA Kitchen Island Hacks To Transform Your Space
A kitchen island is one of the most requested piece in any kitchen, as it provides extra space to cook, dine, entertain, or just to get some extra storage.
However, in some kitchens especially in a rental unit, islands are a luxury as they can be expensive to set up and they tend to require a lot of space.
But with a bit of IKEA hacking, it’s possible to build an affordable kitchen island, suited to the dimensions of your kitchen.
You can even make it a portable kitchen island so you can use it in more ways than one.
The key is to use your IKEA kitchen island to its full potential! We’ve collected 20+ amazing IKEA kitchen island hacks that will show you exactly how to do that.
Country Kitchen Island made from IKEA HEMNES dresser
Kitchen islands are expensive! And they are not very cute. I took an old HEMNES 3-drawer chest (the bigger one) and re-purposed it into a country kitchen island. Materials: HEMNES 3-Drawer Chest How I made my country style kitchen island: I took the backing off the dresser and bought a…
A Norden kitchen island
Materials: One Norden item and some Franklin chairs Description: I was looking for an island in my kitchen which is not separate from the living room. As I’m not a billionaire, was searching a cheap solution… As I already have a Norden item from Ikea, the size of it was…
MALM meets NUMERAR Kitchen Island
Materials: MALM, NUMERAR, AKURUM Description: My wife and I recently bought our first house. Yay! As you can imagine, living in L.A. means housing is very expensive, and we didn’t have very much left in our budget to renovate the new house as much as we would have liked to.…
Easy Expedit Kitchen Island
Materials: Expedit Cabinet, Expedit Castors, Grundtal Rail, Lamplig Chopping Board, Grundtal S-Hook Description: We needed a Kitchen Island for a moderately sized kitchen, but could not find one that we liked. Taking inspiration from IkeaHackers, we decided to set about making our own. Using all Ikea products the whole project…
Stainless Steel Kitchen Island Cart
Materials: Ikea Hyttan Table Top (1 large, 2 small), 4 Vika Moliden Legs Description: Ikea ($390) 1x Ikea Hyttan Table Top, 59″ x 29 1/2″ x 1 5/8″. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40115532/ 2x Ikea Hyttan Table Top, 47 1/2″ x 23 5/8″ x 1 5/8″. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20115533/ 4x Ikea Vika Moliden Legs, 1 5/8″…
White concrete wrapped Ikea kitchen island
Materials: Faktum Cabinets, Rational drawers Besta Push Openers Description: Used standard Faktum Cabinets with a custom re-enforced ground frame to hold the weight of concrete benchtop. Used Besta push openers to act as drawer openers so I can maintain a flush appearance on the front of the kitchen island. ~…
What’s a kitchen without an island
Photo: IKEA.com Materials: Norden Sideboard, Varde Countertop, Drill, Saw (table or circular) Description: I have a decent sized kitchen with a poor countertop layout. I combined the Norden Sideboard with a Varde countertop that overhangs to give me a kitchen island with seating. This is something that is sorely lacking…
Kitchen island – All ikea material
Materials: FAKTUM Wall cabinet, Applad white FAKTUM Base cabinet for recycling, Applad white, CAPITA Leg, stainless steel JULIUS Bar stool, Stainless steel, black PRAGEL Countertop, black stone effect, White paint, Hooks Description: When we bought our house we wanted a kitchen island but we have a smaller kitchen so all…
Kitchen Island for small spaces
Materials: Effectiv cabinets, Vika Amon table top, Rill locking casters Description: I live in a two room old farmhouse with very limited storage and absolutely not a single closet at all. Thus I am always trying to find pieces that will hide my clutter. I have matching Effectiv floor cabinets…
Best(a) Island for kitchen
Materials: Numerär kitchen counter, small Besta shelves, Besta bottle rack, Capita stand, Vinna handlesDescription: Background – Always wanted to have a kitchen island that matches the overall kitchen style – Needed more space for cooking books that were stored on window ledge (can be seen on the first picture background)…
Expedit Rolling Kitchen Island
Materials: EXPEDIT shelving unit, LAGAN countertop, BRANAS baskets Description: Working with a small footprint kitchen I wanted to build an island that would provide seating, storage and extra counterspace. I saw similiar hacks on this site and was inspired to combine them into one super hack! First – I assembled…
L-Shaped Expedit Kitchen Island
Materials: 2 Expedits 2 by 2, Vika Amon Table Top, 4 Vika Curry Table legs (only the top part), 4 Besta Legs, Drawers, SkrewsDescription: For our new kitchen we searched a kitchen island. But none of the premade matched our needs (my wife wanted something with color). So I hacked…
Kitchen island on wheels: Add casters to STENSTORP
A couple of years ago I bought a STENSTORP kitchen island. Because we have little space, I wanted to put the kitchen island on wheels for more flexibility. We did the makeover this winter and it works so well! Materials for kitchen island on wheels: STENSTORP kitchen island NOK 3.250,-…
