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
Granas gone rustic
Materials: Ikea granas table, applaro patio, glue gun, skill saw…
Four Lack table base coffee table
Materials: Lack side tables, piece of Pragel, flower pot, glass…
Over Sofa Table
To friends and readers in the US, happy happy July…
Man Cave Table Hack
Materials: Dalfred stool, used dart board, 1″ hole saw (I…
Lillangen end unit as coffee table with storage
Materials: Lillangen end unit Description: 4 Lillangen unit combined together…
How I made a Baseball Side Table with glue and resin
I wanted to make a baseball side table to use…
IKEA Bookshelf Hacks
IKEA Built-In Bookcase wall (Billy, Effektiv, Lack)
This wall of 6 Billy bookcases (slightly cut down) and…
LERBERG² industrial sideboard
Few months ago I bought 2 Lerberg CD/DVD shelves. They…
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 –…
Fabian wall shelf becomes a custom shelving unit
After searching high and low for a shelving unit that…
All our IKEA Living Room Hacks
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…
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
Half Lack Hack
Materials: Lack side table, hand saw, pliers, wood glue, painters tape Description: I bought a Lack side table for my living room, but it was too big for the space next to my couch. I wanted something half the size, so I decided to cut it in half. I measured the table…
Billy Bookcase Face Lift
Materials: Billy bookcase Description: I beefed up two Billy bookcases using some wood trim and tied it all together with a beautifully printed backing. See more of the Billy facelift. ~ Wife in Progress
Lack Turned Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table
Materials: Lack coffee table Description: When John and I were living in Boston, we had an adorable – yet miniscule- shoebox of an apartment to furnish. Since we weren’t planning on staying there long term, we went the el cheapo route for furnishings…basically hand-me-downs and lots of Ikea. The white Lack coffee…
Billy cupboard doors
Materials: Two Billy bookcase Description: We wanted a clean front for our Billy bookcase because we could not bear to see the contents anymore. before However, we did not like the original doors, we looked for some other ones and found them at a hardware store. But there were no holes for…
Poang²
Materials: 2 Poangs and a shockabsorber Description: Bolted two Poangs to each other and turned an armrest into the very needed third support-leg and another piece into a holder for the shock absorber. After all, the Poang is known for its comfort.. This shock absober is somewhat too hard, so…
Hemnes Lift-top Coffee Table
Materials: Hemnes Table, lift-top hinge Description: Lift-top functionality allows your coffee table to raise up and move closer to you, which is useful for eating on your coffee table. I wanted to add this to my new Hemnes. I ordered a set of lift-top hinges from AliExpress for about $30…
Kivik Mid-Century Makeover
before after Materials: Kivik loveseat, Kivik chaise, Blekinge white slipcover Description: We were sick and tired of our grey-brown slipcover (and…our cats had kinda shredded the arms) that we decided to buy the Blekinge white slipcover, dye it in the bathtub and tuft the pillows. The result is pretty fabulous.…
Butcher block coffee table and end table
Materials: Numerar oak kitchen countertop Description: We remodeled out kitchen with IKEA. There was left over butcher block counter top so we turned the leftovers into a matching coffee table and end table. The end table is the piece that was cut out from the sink. The coffee table is…
Laundry Hamper turned Beautiful Modern Side Table
Materials: IKEA ANTONIUS Laundry Hamper, Piece of cut wood Description: 1. Removed hamper bag from hamper frame. 2. Spray painted frame of the hamper black 3. Went to Lowes and had the nice gentleman in the lumber department cut me a thick square of wood (any indoor wood) about 15.5…
Reinforced Red Lack Platform/Stool/Table
Materials: Lack coffee table, Capita angled legs, plywood Description: My girlfriend is just shy of five feet tall; I am six and a bit. I’ll leave the rest to the imagination of the reader, but I felt we needed a stool at around 8″, which is hard to find. I…
Making a Living Room Partition with IKEA BILLY
I built a 3 meter wide by 2.30 tall entry way and living room partition. Materials: Billy Bookshelves Moreno glass doors Benno DVD Shelves My entry way / living room partition: The entry way has 2 Billy bookcases fixed together (back to back) as one unit, with no back attached…
Strandmon Rocker
Materials: STRANDMON, drill, rocking chair runners Description: Hello! I decided to turn an IKEA Strandmon chair into a rocking chair. I found a site online where you could buy unfinished rocking chair runners. I ordered a set, and measured where the feet of the Strandmon would go. Very carefully, we…
