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’s bold new look with plywood trim
Here I show you my new version of the famous…
IKEA Kallax sideboard hack
Materials: KALLAX Shelving unit KALLAX Insert with door KALLAX Insert with 2 drawers…
How to connect two KALLAX shelving units into one
I came across this on Pinterest, but cannot find the…
Ikea Besta Hack with Decals
This is a custom buffet I made for the entryway…
Coffee table and side table hacks
Klassy Butcherblock Tops for Klubbo Tables
Materials: Klubbo Nesting Table set; John Boos maple butcher block…
Table from the fifties
Materials: Ulsberg Description: You take 3 Ulsberg table and you cut the…
BESTA Coffee table
My girlfriend and I decided, that we needed a nice…
RUBRIK to coffee table
Materials: RUBRIK, CAPITA legs, wood planks Description: We’re going with…
KLUBBO Nesting Coffee Tables with Recycled Pallet tops
Materials: Ikea Klubbo Description: We updated our Ikea Klubbo nesting tables with…
Kitchen top to coffee table
Materials: Lagan/ Document coffee table Description: Just a simple wood/metal coffee table.…
IKEA Bookshelf Hacks
Make me a built in bookcase she said……
Materials: 3 Billy bookcases and a Gnedby shelving unit, bits…
BILLY, Metallic and Stencils
Materials: BILLY bookcases, stencils The backs of the large billy…
A tribute to Mondrian library
Materials: LACK shelf, TUTEMO open cabinet This is a library…
“Built-in” bookcase from old IVAR shelf
After my divorce, it was time to turn my attic…
Custom Doors for Expedit & Kallax Shelving
Doors: 1) Took 1/4 Inch thick hardboard and cut it…
Hyllis all the way
I wanted a Restoration Hardware/Pottery Barn-ish industrial looking shelves for…
All our IKEA Living Room Hacks
Custom Doors for Expedit & Kallax Shelving
Doors: 1) Took 1/4 Inch thick hardboard and cut it into a 13 inch by 13 inch square 2) Cut a design into it using a jig saw 3) Painted 4) Varnished Handles: 1) Bought 1/2 diameter wooden dowels from Dollarama. 2) Cut to 3/4 Inch length 3) Drilled a…
Hyllis all the way
I wanted a Restoration Hardware/Pottery Barn-ish industrial looking shelves for the living room. By taking four units of Hyllis, turning them upside down and making some cuts, we had the basis for our shelves. We then treated the wood, made some cuts to make sure it fit and la voila.…
PAX / Billy living room storage with silhouette doors
Materials: 1 Billy bookcase, 2 PAX wardrobes, PAX door hinges, PAX shelf inserts Before we were married, I knew that my now-wife and I would live in an apartment and we would desperately need storage for items related to her direct sales businesses (fashion jewelry, bags and teaching couponing techniques…
BESTA Floating Credenza
Materials: BESTA shelf unit with high gloss, white doors two BESTA shelf suspension rails 3/4″ X 47 3/4″ X 16″, Aspen panel I’m excited to share one of the big projects we worked on (before I share the full reveal!) to help transform the space with a trusty old DIY…
Bunny Copper Piping chair
Materials: FROSTA stool A furniture hack designed for Rabbit Owl Depot in Singapore, the design intent was to have an industrial look relating to the interior design yet cute symbolical reference to the animal. User will grab the copper piping rabbit ear just like a magician pulling a bunny out…
A Secret Secretary Desk Hidden in a BILLY Bookcase
Looking for a space-saving workstation that doesn’t scream “office”? This brilliant IKEA hack transforms the beloved BILLY bookcase into a fully functional fold-out secretary desk—with hidden compartments, clever tech features, and loads of personality. Created by the team at Saustark Design in their studio in Munich’s Schwabing district, this hack…
From bed slats to coffee table to bookcase
I love the pine wood slat from IKEA … it is very naturally beautiful. I got a new bed, so, I decided to transform the old IKEA bed with beautiful slat to something useful. Well, here we are – from slat to coffee table to bookcase. 1. Cut the strings…
Expedit rolls too vertically
Materials: 2 Slugger wheel packs, 6 2×2 Expedit I needed to fit storage in a very narrow space with a column inside. 1.- mount the first Expedit completely 2.- mount the second one without the bottom shelf and glue it on top of the first one 3.- mount the third…
Extra long Karlstad Sectional for the large living room
My wife and I really loved the look of the green Karlstad sectional. The problem we had is that our living room space was too large for the 3+2 unit. Taking inspiration from this “Baby Karlstad Corner Sofa” post I decided to buy a 3+2 Karlstad Sectional and extend one…
Expedit into Card Catalog
This is an was Expedit Shelf that was transformed into a card catalog cabinet / apothecary cabinet! Basically, by applying wood strips over the laminate you can transform a basic Ikea shelf into rustic and vintage console. Enjoy! See my step by step tutorial here.
Moppe Apothecary
Materials: Moppe with 6 drawers and with large drawer Stacked Moppe drawers and used Liquid Nail glue as adhesive. Cut out board and used wooden legs as base, stained all one color. All drawers were turned around and added label holders.
LACK-LINMON Coffee table with added height
Materials: Lack 90×55, Linnmon top 120×60 and 4 Capita legs With my husband we needed a bit higher coffee table than Ikea provides to eat more comfortably and play board games easily :). We decided to turn upside down the Lack table and place on it the Linnmon top adding…
A Helmer-Lekman-Cupboard
Solid wooden storage cabinet made of beech panels with aluminium profiles as column elements. Ikea products are Helmer and Lekman-Box. Instead of the Lekman box, other boxes that match the measurements on Kallax shelf may be used such as Nornäs bookcase and sideboard Nornäs. It is also possible to use…
Lack Coffee table Remix
Coffee table made using 2 high gloss LACK tables and a set of 4 ALGOT casters
Sideboard revival with LACK and KALLAX
Materials: LACK shelf with KALLAX bookcase We bought the shelves for the wall, but it was too complicated to fix them at the wall. So we thought about what to do? And that was the moment when the idea was born: Putting together the LACK shelves with the KALLAX bookcase…
How to tuft/button your cushions
Hi guys! I wanted to share a super easy DIY project that I did on our Ikea Karlstad Sectional this past weekend. And by easy, I mean it took me about 20 minutes to complete the project, but it made a pretty big impact to our sofa. I’ve always dreamed about owning…
Bookshelf or Fireplace? I Couldn’t Decide.
Materials: Two full-size and one narrow Hemnes bookshelves I had a spare wall in my living room, but wanted both a lot of book storage and a fireplace. I checked the dimensions of the Hemnes bookshelf, and discovered an electric fireplace insert that fit with just a little extra space. I…
Changing the shape of the Lack coffee table
I made these tables from IKEA stuff. Each table is made out of two LACK-tables and the LINNMON table top. More photos here and here.
Making a Pax Room in the Living Room
Hello Everybody! I am very excited to share with this community and everybody what I have done in my little apartment in hopes to help others who may have the same problem that I had. Before I get started, a brief introduction about myself… I am a young father (32) of…
Contemporary TV unit – Improvising with LACK!
There are many post & hacks that were done with LACK series of products from Ikea. Well, here is my version of it. Need brings ideas!! That’s how we built this TV unit. List of IKEA items used: LACK TV unit LACK wall shelf (11 3/4 “x 10 1/4…
