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.
MALM & BILLY Storage Wall
Storage-wall based on MALM and BILLY shelves. Me and my…
HEMNES lightens up
Materials: HEMNES dresser It was originally black to suit our…
A touch of shabby chic for HEMNES console table
Materials: HEMNES console table I love everything with the vintage…
Better than Besta
Materials used: 2 Ikea Besta bookshelves / 1 piece of…
Coffee table and side table hacks
Besta Vara coffee table
Materials: 1 Lack Table, 1 Besta Vara Door 60 x…
Lack gets a LEGO Hack
Materials: 1 x LACK side table 3 large tubs of…
Mirrored Mosaic Coffee Table
Materials: Don’t know Ikea model name, mirror, glass, putty knife,…
EXPEDIT LACK Rolling Storage Coffee Table
Materials: LACK coffee table top, 2X2 EXPEDIT, square VIKA AMON(?)…
Vika Amon, Hacked
Materials: Vika Amon and Capita Legs Description: Step 1: Search…
KNUFF Transformable Coffee Table
Materials: KNUFF Magazine file X 4 sets, rotating artist stool,…
IKEA Bookshelf Hacks
Reclaimed wood Billy
Materials: BILLY bookcase I took the shorter Billy book shelf…
Secret bookcase door
I used the Billy Bookcase. 3 x 30″ bookcase. 1…
One Big Billy
We started with 6 Billy bookshelves surrounding our TV –…
Trifecta Perfecta – My Simple Expedit Hack
I wanted to somehow create a ‘balancing cubes’ effect with…
Fabian wall shelf becomes a custom shelving unit
After searching high and low for a shelving unit that…
Kitchen cabinets into pimped out storage catch all
I needed something to hold my clutter so I took…
All our IKEA Living Room Hacks
Hacking the Lack into an upholstered ottoman
Materials: Lack Coffee Table Description: I had an old Lack coffee table but I really wanted an upholstered ottoman. Since it was the right size, I just decided to see if I could turn what I had into what I wanted. I knew I wanted mine to be thick, so…
Klassy Butcherblock Tops for Klubbo Tables
Materials: Klubbo Nesting Table set; John Boos maple butcher block tops Description: IKEA’s Klubbo nesting tables have a very classy look – except for the tops, which are very light weight, and frankly look pretty cheap. At IKEA I bought the white Klubbo table set ($10 less than the black).…
Table from the fifties
Materials: Ulsberg Description: You take 3 Ulsberg table and you cut the table leg. 3 colors with aerosol paint under the top and that’s it. ~ fred, rennes – france
EXPEDIT LEDs with style
Materials: EXPEDIT 4×2, LEDBERG, 19mm Anti-Vandal switch button. Description: Here’s my second Ikea Hack. I’ve decided to add a button on top of the Expedit to turn on/off the LEDBERG led bars. As you can see in the pictures there’s just a button switching on and off my LEDBERG lights…
BESTA Coffee table
My girlfriend and I decided, that we needed a nice coffee table, but none of the usual suited our needs. It should be a table not everybody has in his living room, and we wanted to store some annoying stuff inside, for example different remotes, a serving tray and some…
Expedit built in room divider
This is my attempt at an Expedit room diver, it all began with a large attic flat I have which was two rooms but someone knocked into one. I looked at ‘canned’ solutions to dividing the rooms and didn’t really like any of them. A friend gifted me a black…
Ex Ikea Upright Bookcases now Mid Century Modern Sideboards
Materials: Expedit, 12mm ply board Description: Ex Ikea upright Expedit hack! Turn the bookcase on its side, we had 12mm ply board that we cut to size, sanded the edges and then stained in “maple” coloured stain with a satin finish. Then a few tubes of liquid nails spread onto the…
Spotted in Switzerland: Expedit with wine styled drawers
During a trip in Switzerland I visited the Castle of Oberhofen. In its restaurant I came across an amazing (but simple) Expedit Hack with custom drawers, made of old wine boxes. I peeked inside to see how it works – there is a thin metal on the side to support the…
Tundra on the Ceiling!
Materials: Tundra Laminate Flooring, 2.5 inch Finishing Nail Gun (rent), Ladders, Extra Helpers, Table Saw, Color Match Filler Paste for minor flaws, Tolerance for Minor Flaws Description: The original plan was to use a finishing nail gun to use T&G bamboo flooring as a unique green ceiling. Tundra flooring was…
RUBRIK to coffee table
Materials: RUBRIK, CAPITA legs, wood planks Description: We’re going with a beach theme in our front room, to facilitate this we’ve placed a couple of white chairs and a white bookcase in the room. I wanted to add a complimentary coffee table to the mix but was not having any…
A library on wheels
Materials: Expedit, Linnmon Description: I live in a duplex in which the upper floor has an inclined ceiling. In a corner I have my computer desk, and behind my back the ceiling is pretty low, and I need to make the most of it. So I thought of something like…
George ‘ikea’ Nelson shelving
Materials: STOLMEN SHELF W110XD50, STOLMEN W55XD50,STOLMEN Cabinet w/2 doors W11xD45, HEKTAR wall spotlight, EKBY JARPEN shelf, EKBY BJARNUM bracket, EKBY RISET bracket for sloping wall, Description: This inspiration came from Mid-Century modern design and architecture scene from its early years by George Nelson. This CSS shelving unit is still up…
Expedit homemade tops
Materials: expedit 4×4, plywood, beam, magnets, double face strong tape, screws Description: I was looking for a quick and cheap way to hide the messy shelves of my Expedit that would match my style. To make each top I used: 33x33x0,5 cm plywood 4x2x1 cm beam (for the handle) two…
Fake old library
Materials: Billy, Benno, Lack Description: We wanted to create an old style library, with CD storage … To create this kind of library, we used : 2 Billy 2 Benno 2 Lack shelves furniture feet cornices, mouldings … We started to put classic furniture feet under a Lack shelf (for the base…
10min JEFF Chair Refurb
Materials: 1xJEFF Chair and 1m of 75-80mm PVC Pipe Description: Find some discarded folding chairs, this hack should work for any IKEA folding chair. People will most likely be throwing them out because the plastic chair back has cracked. It’s also easy to find offcuts of pvc around residential building sites!…
L-shaped wall divider with IKEA BILLY and friends
A transformer monster escaped from the IKEAhackers website and transformed my living room. Originally there was a 3 meter wall divider from BILLY bookcases at the entry way. (See the hack on IKEAhackers). Materials: Billy Benno Moreno Stockholm DIY L shaped wall divider: Now there is an L-shaped wall with an…
KLUBBO Nesting Coffee Tables with Recycled Pallet tops
Materials: Ikea Klubbo Description: We updated our Ikea Klubbo nesting tables with wood recycled from a pair of pallets. We removed the old table tops and used them as a template to cut two 1/2″ plywood squares (meant to serve as support for the new table tops. Based on the size of…
Kitchen top to coffee table
Materials: Lagan/ Document coffee table Description: Just a simple wood/metal coffee table. Four Document magazine storage thingies are used as table legs. A Lagan counter top is used as the table top. Wood screws were used to fix the “legs” to the table top and some carriage bolts to decorate and beef…
Flexible Pine book shelf
Materials: 7 black Lack shelves (26×30 cm), 8 pine shelves Ekby Tryggve, white pained steel legs from building market, carpet tape Description: 1. Unpack all pieces. 2. Fasten support like legs or whatever you choose on the Ekby Tryggve shelf to be the lowest. 3. Use Lack shelves put on the…
Ikea Shelving to Built in Bookcases
Materials: 4 Ikea shelves Description: The full detailed instructions can be found on the blog. ~ Megan
