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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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.
IKEA EXPEDIT turns into beautiful blue sideboard cabinet
Open shelving to sideboard cabinet with doors. I used to…
IKEA IVAR grows up into gorgeous red cabinet
This IKEA IVAR cabinet spent some time as a plain…
Ekby Valter brackets as legs for a chest
I am so pleased with this hack! I was looking…
Easy DIY TROFAST Doors: Use the TROFAST shelves!
I had an old IKEA TROFAST frame sitting around that…
Coffee table and side table hacks
Two Fjellse beds make a living room
Fjellse-sofa 1. I assembled one bedframe with two Headboards. 2.…
LACK Tea Table 2.0
Materials: LACK Table (90x55x45cm) There are 2 individual steps for the…
Rustic industrial end table
You will need: (2) Aptitlig Ikea Cutting Boards (4) 1/2…
Colourful Knuff table
Materials: FROSTA, Knuff The colourful version of the KNUFF Coffee…
Light Play: A programmable LED LACK side table
Materials: LACK side table With € 7.99 you take home…
The KVISSLE adjustable coffee table: Don’t you wish IKEA really made this?
FEATURES: – Adjustable height – Adjustable length – 2 separate…
IKEA Bookshelf Hacks
Exact size IVAR shelf system
My Mom knows that I am good with the IVAR…
LACK TV unit into bookshelf bench
Materials: Used lack TV stand (90x26cm, £9), and 2 x…
KRITTER kid chairs turns into a shelf
Funkynality found a set of KRITTER children furniture. When a friend…
HEMNES Custom Built-in Storage Unit
IKEA items used: Two HEMNES glass door cabinets with drawers,…
EXPEDIT entertainment center – this is how to DIY
We recently purchased a home and were looking to add…
(Not) Built-in Ikea Cabinets
Materials: Kallax Shelves, Malm Drawer Units and Linnmon counter tops…
All our IKEA Living Room Hacks
Exact size IVAR shelf system
My Mom knows that I am good with the IVAR system. Every time she is at our house, she is asking me how did I do this, how did I do that… And when she wanted an exact size shelf system for her teeny living room I simply could not say…
IKEA GORM lounge hack
Correction: The IKEA item used is referred to as the IVAR. It should be the GORM (now HEJNE). So I’ve been an IKEA fan for a while however I haven’t really dug to deep into IKEA hacks until I created my own, now I’m hooked. My hack was not immediate,…
LACK TV unit into bookshelf bench
Materials: Used lack TV stand (90x26cm, £9), and 2 x Gurli vision covers in green (50x50cm, £2 each) and an Inner cushion pad (50×50, £1.50). Plus some ‘sew and stick’ Velcro and scrap fabric. Total £14.50 Instructions: Assemble the TV bench, but when it comes to banging the placement for…
KRITTER kid chairs turns into a shelf
Funkynality found a set of KRITTER children furniture. When a friend who has a little boy wasn’t keen to take them on, she promptly went to work. She threw out save the table but transformed the chairs into compact shelving. Here’s what she did: 1. Wash and clean the chairs. 2.…
HEMNES Custom Built-in Storage Unit
IKEA items used: Two HEMNES glass door cabinets with drawers, Four HEMNES narrow (19 1/4”) bookcases, One HEMNES wide (35 3/8”) bookcase While giving my home office a makeover, I realized we badly needed some built-in storage. We had a long alcove in the wall that was the perfect size…
TRANSFORMERS! Bulk-Storage-Bed into a Lounge!
Beds with a lot of bulk storage is a classic Ikea hack. Our bed design is SO easy that anyone can do it. No alteration of the original Ikea furniture, virtually no work, it’s THAT easy! But when we made our bed, we would never have guessed that our hack…
IKEA TARVA Golden Antique Makeover
Hey Guys, I wanted to share one my most recent DIY projects. This is a video of me converting the IKEA Tarva to a Masterpiece! Or at least I think so. Never the less, I had a blast transforming this dull dresser into a golden antique treasure. Also check below the…
MARIUS stool gets new direction
Materials: MARIUS stool from IKEA street sign screws and washers Over at instructables.com, uersel made a Marius Street Sign side table. I must say it looks cool, but am wondering, where does one get a street sign? The hack though, is really easy. You just need to drill four countersunk…
IKEA LACK Rustic Coffee Table DIY
Ad found the IKEA LACK coffee table a tad boring. “I had seen an example of another rustic coffee table DIY with wood and found it very interesting,” says Ad. “The most challenging part of the hack was getting the right color on the table top.” Even though it is…
EXPEDIT entertainment center – this is how to DIY
We recently purchased a home and were looking to add some built-in features. After being inspired by a few post on IKEAhackers and realizing that I had two perfectly good EXPEDIT bookcases available, I decided to attempt to hack an EXPEDIT entertainment center on my own. I consider myself a…
IKEA EXPEDIT’s bold new look with plywood trim
Here I show you my new version of the famous Expedit. What you need: 1. Expedit or Kallax (in my case the big 8 unit one) 2. 2 packages (4 pieces) EKBY BJÄRNUM (legs) 3. Liquid nails 4. Plywood (10mm) 5. Teak wood paint 6. screw clamps and other normal tools…
Hidden Coffee Table Hack
Used IKEA modules: Besta Frame 60x40x192 (W,D,H) 2xBesta Shelf 56×36 (W,D) Besta Drawer frame 60x40x25 (W,D,H) (optional) Besta drawer runner push-open (Optional) Lappviken door 60xx64 (W,H) Lappviken drawer front 60×38 (W,H) (optional) Lack Side table (only the legs are needed) Utrusta push opener Additional parts: 4x carriage bolt 4x Tessauer…
IKEA Kallax sideboard hack
Materials: KALLAX Shelving unit KALLAX Insert with door KALLAX Insert with 2 drawers I had an upright Kallax that I didn’t know where to put. I decided to transform it into a retro-looking sideboard. I have been inspired by the many Kallax/Expedit hacks on ikeahackers as well as by the 50s furniture. I…
(Not) Built-in Ikea Cabinets
Materials: Kallax Shelves, Malm Drawer Units and Linnmon counter tops Living in a condominium I occasionally indulge my furniture building interest. But where could I hide my miter and table saw? I also wanted to stop paying for storage space that was mainly housing old books and vinyl records. The…
Comic Book Storage Solution
Materials: 2 RAST Dressers While comic long boxes do have a certain level of appeal, I wanted to do something for my husband’s birthday that displayed and organized his comic collection (or at least a relatively small part of it) in a more aesthetically pleasing way. After doing some research,…
Billy’s Alcove Alchemy
Materials: Tall Billy bookcase The living room alcove by the chimney breast had long been the home to an old Billy bookcase. But as the Billy was too small to make best use of the space, a decision to redecorate the entire room seemed a good excuse to install a…
Beautiful Billy Besta Behemoth
Materials: 3 single Besta Cabinets, 3 Double Besta Cabinets, 2 5 unit Besta Cabinets, 2 Billy Bookcases, 14 assorted Besta Vassbo Doors, 2 Billy Oxberg Doors This hack is a new twist on the many wonderful Billy and Besta built in projects already on IKEA Hackers. This project is unique…
Evolution of Quad LACK coffee table
This is the logical evolution of ZAMIR BOIANGIU’s Quad LACK coffee table. The four tables melded together! What you need: 4 LACK tables screws 3 x 35 mm screws 5 x 80 mm wood glue old pieces of wood Step 1 Cut two tabletops to the shape, you what to have.…
How to connect two KALLAX shelving units into one
I came across this on Pinterest, but cannot find the link to the original article. I would love to connect two KALLAX shelving units as they did in the photo below. Does anyone have any thoughts on how it was done? Many thanks for your help! ~ by Vince (twosharks)…
Transforming a living space – Boring BILLY to a cosy cabinet
When we first moved into our rented apartment, we decided we would just decorate with IKEA furniture and wait until we bought our home before investing in more expensive pieces. I’m a big IKEA fan, so any excuse to pop out there and go shopping was good for me. We…
