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.
Hyllis all the way
I wanted a Restoration Hardware/Pottery Barn-ish industrial looking shelves for…
BESTA Floating Credenza
Materials: BESTA shelf unit with high gloss, white doors two…
Expedit into Card Catalog
This is an was Expedit Shelf that was transformed into a card…
Moppe Apothecary
Materials: Moppe with 6 drawers and with large drawer Stacked…
Coffee table and side table hacks
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″…
Coffee table from old Nenne computer desk
Materials: 4 dowels, 2 x 6cm screws, 2 pieces of…
Lack Coffee Table with footrest
Materials: $29.99 Lack coffee table, 1×2 wood, foam, upholstery fabric,…
Mother and son Lack table
Materials: Lack table Description: 2 6mm mdf boards, side 18mm…
Double Lack Hack
Materials: 2x Lack coffee table, Circular Saw, 4x angle iron…
IKEA Bookshelf Hacks
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…
Double Decker VITTSJÖ
Materials: VITTSJÖ Shelving Units We recently moved into a 250 square…
Bolly and Billy
Materials: BILLY bookcase x 8 I bought 8 times the…
George ‘IKEA’ Nelson CSS shelving (single series)
IKEA item used: Stolmen 2x sliding door cabinet, Grundtal 3x…
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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…
Klippan Corner Sofa Conversion and Longer Oak Fence Post Legs
Materials: KLIPPAN sofa x 2 Firstly, I cut the arm off one of the sofa’s. This made a very comfy place for two to stretch there legs out across and still have enough space for one person at each of the ends. I then decided that the sofa was far…
BILLY Built-Ins for home office
Materials: BILLY We added 1×8′s around the bottoms and 1×2′s to the sides of the BILLY bookcases for decorative molding. We painted them white and mint on the backs. We then brought them into the room and attached them to the wall using L-brackets. The tops are finished with more…
New version of the coffee table with KNUFF magazine files
Materials: KNUFF magazine holders, FROSTA stool, NASUM basket My project is a new version of this amazing and original project . I found the idea of it here, in IkeaHacker.com and had a great inspiration for a home deco DIY. I have adapted it to my style, adding some Ikea NASUM basket…
HEMNES lightens up
Materials: HEMNES dresser It was originally black to suit our bedroom as a dresser, I put three coats of primer and 3 coats of polycryllic on the dresser body, stained 1×6 a weathered grey, and poly-ed them. OH! and ripped out the particle board back and put up bead board,…
Frosta X: Take 2
Splinternet revisits the fabulous Frosta X hack by Andreas Bhend. See how it is done in video. Link to video.
Backwards Billy TV Mount in Built-Ins (with Clock)
Materials: Besta shelf unit (47.25″ x 15.75″ x 25.25″) with Besta Vara glass doors and push openers, Billy bookcases 11″ deep 79.5″ tall (3 wide 1 narrow), Billy height extension units (7 wide 8 narrow) Our NYC apartment has a living/dining room with a recessed wall (11.5″ deep, perfect for Billy shelves!). I…
The de-squaring and shelf-itizing of an Expedit unit
Materials: One Lack shelving unit, one-4X4 Expedit and one-1X1 Expedit Confession, I have a love-hate relationship with the IKEA Expedit line. I purchased one in 2012 because it worked like a dream as a room divider, or more accurately as a “messy bed hiding area,” in my old studio apartment. However in…
The Angled-High Wall Unit
Materials: LERBERG Shelves (60×148 cm) dark grey To create this modular full-height wall unit, comprises of the Bottom Half and the Top Half portion. The hack is basically the Top Half part. In the picture, we used eight units in total, with four units on the bottom, and four units on…
A touch of shabby chic for HEMNES console table
Materials: HEMNES console table I love everything with the vintage (shabby chic ) touch. The idea here is to create a small door with window type design, which I used pine wood for the material. The four small drawers box on the top were made with wine crate, as the…
Manstad Hack to fit Avion Travel Trailer
Materials: MANSTAD For 3 years, we’ve wanted to add one of these to our travel trailer but it was about a foot too wide and our trailer is round in the corners and walls. We managed to make it fit by removing the long arm, cutting the storage box to…
A built-in library with HEMNES and STORNAS
Materials: HEMNES bookcase, STORNAS buffet The HEMNES bookcases are shortened at the bottom and placed on top of the STORNÄS buffets. All cabinets are bolted to the wall for extra security. To finish, there is the full width MDF board placed at the top and bottom of the sideboard and…
From PELLO to perch
Materials: PELLO chair The chair frame was dismantled and the metal frame and fabric seat set aside. The wooden frame was adapted by removing approximately 6″ (150mm) from the back edge of the armrest and base on each side. The cross members were shortened so that the overall width of…
I framed Jules
Materials: JULES chair The wheels on the swivel part of this chair began to disengage from their housing but after a few temporary fixes they obviously weren’t going to last much longer. I dismantled the chair and took the metal parts to our local recycling centre but I kept the…
