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.
Akurum floating credenza – wall storage
I wanted a modern, space saving, unique, floating credenza. Scoured…
LIDINGÖ living room built-in console
We used 4 LIDINGÖ upper cabinets and simply built a…
Triple RAST sideboard
Materials: RAST A classic RAST hack. x3 bare pine RAST…
BORGSJO with Barn Doors
Hello – this is my first (intentional) IKEA-hack! My husband…
Coffee table and side table hacks
Half Lack Hack
Materials: Lack side table, hand saw, pliers, wood glue, painters tape…
Lack Turned Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table
Materials: Lack coffee table Description: When John and I were living in…
Laundry Hamper turned Beautiful Modern Side Table
Materials: IKEA ANTONIUS Laundry Hamper, Piece of cut wood Description:…
Reinforced Red Lack Platform/Stool/Table
Materials: Lack coffee table, Capita angled legs, plywood Description: My…
Klubbo + Fjellse Slats = Vintage Industrial Table
Materials: Klubbo side table, Fjellse bed slats, stain, polyacrylic, screws,…
Nordmyra window table
Materials: Two Nordmyra chairs, One big and heavy window (1/2″…
IKEA Bookshelf Hacks
PAX / Billy living room storage with silhouette doors
Materials: 1 Billy bookcase, 2 PAX wardrobes, PAX door hinges,…
A Secret Secretary Desk Hidden in a BILLY Bookcase
Looking for a space-saving workstation that doesn’t scream “office”? This…
From bed slats to coffee table to bookcase
I love the pine wood slat from IKEA … it…
Expedit rolls too vertically
Materials: 2 Slugger wheel packs, 6 2×2 Expedit I needed…
A Helmer-Lekman-Cupboard
Solid wooden storage cabinet made of beech panels with aluminium…
DIY plywood doors for Ikea EXPEDIT shelf
Expedit shelf outer edges are hollow. You have to attach…
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Concrete Coffee Table
This is best done with 2 people. It’s damn heavy (45kg or so). Part 1: Create concrete table top This was the website I used for my inspiration. Materials needed: Ready to mix concrete (I used Quikcrete 5000 — used for fence posts, etc) Mixing bucket, rubber gloves, mixing shovel,…
Two Fjellse beds make a living room
Fjellse-sofa 1. I assembled one bedframe with two Headboards. 2. I took off the upper bars and removed all six decorative strips from both headboards. 3. I cut three of them in half drilling new holes in the cutted ends. 4. I reassembled the headboards and drilled new holes for…
LACK Tea Table 2.0
Materials: LACK Table (90x55x45cm) There are 2 individual steps for the LACK hack: 1) New wooden top surface I bought 12 wooden boards in our hardware store, 55×7,5×1,8cm each. I planned to fix the boards to the LACK table with wood glue and so I first grind the top surface of…
DIY plywood doors for Ikea EXPEDIT shelf
Expedit shelf outer edges are hollow. You have to attach hinges in the thin partitition walls. You will nead two sizes of doors: 39cm X 79.5cm on the edges of the cabinet and 34,5cm X 79,5cm size in the middle. Materials: Expedit shelf Before attaching the doors drill opening holes…
Double Decker VITTSJÖ
Materials: VITTSJÖ Shelving Units We recently moved into a 250 square foot loft apartment… so we had to get creative with our storage. Luckily, the place had 12 foot ceilings, so we decided to do a floor to ceiling shelving unit. We purchased 4 VITTSJÖ 39 3/8×68 7/8″ shelving units, and…
EXPEDIT Shelf into a Apothecary Console
Materials: EXPEDIT media cabinet This is an EXPEDIT Media Cabinet that was transformed into a apothecary console! Basically applying wood strips over the laminate. Ikea’s price tag with the appearance of rustic and vintage. See the tutorial here.
Bolly and Billy
Materials: BILLY bookcase x 8 I bought 8 times the small BILLY book case, kept it 4 times original and cut up the other 4. I reassembled them into a very large cabinet (approx 4 metres). It’s a real eyecatcher now!
Rustic industrial end table
You will need: (2) Aptitlig Ikea Cutting Boards (4) 1/2 in. plumbers piping flange (4) 1/2 in. X 4 in. threaded plumbers pipes (4) 1/2 in. plumbers pipe end caps (3) 3/4 in. plumbers piping flange (1) 3/4 in. tee joint (1) 3/4″ 90° piping joint (2) 3/4 in. X…
Colourful Knuff table
Materials: FROSTA, Knuff The colourful version of the KNUFF Coffee Table! See this and this for instructions on how to build it.
Light Play: A programmable LED LACK side table
Materials: LACK side table With € 7.99 you take home a beautiful coffee table simple and functional, just like I like them … And if we add the led becomes unique! I was at the doctor and looking at the overhead to read the x-rays. I had the lighting (it…
DIY-ish Floating Credenza
Materials: BESTA I’m certainly not the first person to turn Ikea cabinets into a floating credenza, or “fauxdenza,” but I recently put my own spin on the idea. First my Hubby and I installed three Ikea Besta units – with glass front doors – in our dining room. Then we…
The KVISSLE adjustable coffee table: Don’t you wish IKEA really made this?
FEATURES: – Adjustable height – Adjustable length – 2 separate or 1 longer table – Storage space WHAT YOU NEED: – KVISSLE magazine files, 4 pairs – SVENERIK stools, 2 pieces – Bolts, nuts and washers, 22 sets – Extra washers, 10 pieces – MDF boards, 2 pieces – Carpet…
Two love seats make one super long sofa
Materials: 2 x KARLSFORS Love seat, 3x BESTÅ leg (2 pack) Assemble love seat, leaving off right arm on left love seat, left arm on right love seat. Do not attach legs. Tilt love seat on floor to have access to underside. Remove nuts & bolts from one arm. Butt…
George ‘IKEA’ Nelson CSS shelving (single series)
IKEA item used: Stolmen 2x sliding door cabinet, Grundtal 3x lights, Ekby Jarpen 2x shelf, Ledberg LED lights, Ekby Lerberg bracket, Ekby Riset bracket for sloping wall, Kvissle wall newspaper rack, Vaggis noticeboard, and Bjarnum folding hook. This is my newly second post for my DIY Bookcase & Shelving (under…
Combining 2 HEMNES console tables into 1
It all has started when me and my wife realized that 1 Hemnes table is not enough and 2 is too much. ‘What’s the problem, then?’, – we said to each other, – ‘Let’s cut 1 quarter of a table and combine them together!’ To repeat our hack you’ll need:…
BILLY Bookcases transform into Queen Murphy Bed
We live in Manhattan where space is a premium. We are fortunate to have a playroom that also needs to double as a guest room. Our idea was to hide a queen murphy bed behind our IKEA BILLY bookcases. What’s a murphy bed? A Murphy bed is also called a…
BESTA wall cabinets mod to sideboard
Materials: BESTA wall hanging units Purchased 2 of the Besta wall hanging units to make a side board. Added hand turned legs all 2 PAK sprayed gloss white to match high gloss doors.
Mantlepiece with DVD storage
Materials: Benno DVD tower (£18). Lack Wall shelf – (£19) for 190cm. Lack Wall shelf – (£10) for 110cm Living in a small apartment means that storage is difficult, especially when my girlfriend has so many shoes. And then there’s the whole argument about having DVDs on show or in…
How To Make a Billy Bookcase Look Expensive
Materials: BILLY Bookcases I started by looking up “billy Ikea hack” on Google images, I went through tons of photos and blog posts showing the different changes one could make. (Kate’s hack on her blog Centsational Girl was my fave) I measured my space and consulted the good old website…
MALM & BILLY Storage Wall
Storage-wall based on MALM and BILLY shelves. Me and my son built this storage-wall in my old apartment, based on BILLY shelves and MALM drawers, with some additions. Work in progress: The furniture is built as usual, with the exception that the small “base-plank” at the bottom of each piece…
