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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Coffee table and side table hacks
Rope Ain’t just for Jumpin’: Nautical Rope Table
Materials: NORESUND Table black-brown, rope, drill, tacky glue and hot…
Ulsberg Updated
Materials: Ulsberg Nightstand, decorative paper, foam core board, x-acto knife…
Design Frosta
Materials: Frosta, paint, felt, yarn Description: Before assembling, paint legs…
Lack Table Upgrade
Materials: Ikea Lack Table, two straight hinges with screws, fabric,…
Bastis Krona Hack – it’s an ottoman!
Materials: Bastis Krona Pet Bed, 1 yd of material, heavy…
Revived Lack TV table
Materials: 1/4″ poplar planks and pine lattice, miter box, saw,…
All our IKEA Living Room Hacks
Over Sofa Table
To friends and readers in the US, happy happy July 4th! ~ Jules Materials: Fabian / Lack / Ekby / Assorted Screws / Stain Description: Underwhelmed by the selection of over sofa tables on the market, especially for the price. (Including Ikea’s Stockholm table.) Opted to hack my own! Two…
Man Cave Table Hack
Materials: Dalfred stool, used dart board, 1″ hole saw (I think it ws 1″), screwdriver Description: My friends and I play darts at least once a week…and after about 6-9 months of playing, the board needs replacing because of all the abuse they take. Instead of throwing them away, I’ve…
FROSTA X – how to hack this amazing little stool
This is one of three hacks I made with the FROSTA stool. In this project, I took 3 stools and turned them into a series of wall shelves. IKEA item used: 3 FROSTA Stools Tools: Handsaw or jigsaw Screwdriver Cordless drill Pencil FROSTA-X instructions, IKEA style See the whole plan…
EXPEDIT sofa table/bar/computer desk
Materials: EXPEDIT 2×2 bookshelves, extra EXPEDIT panel, HUTTEN wine bottle rack, INREDA stemware rack, LEDBERG 3-piece light strip set Description: It’s a pretty straight-forward hack that was made to hide the back of my sectional, provide more storage, a bar and a seating area where I can use my laptops.…
Henriksdal’s New Skirt
Materials: Henriksdal Chair and Slip Cover Description: While I love love love Ikea prices, sometimes the super clean lines and modern style doesn’t mesh with my traditional home. So, in about an hour and with less than $10, I outfitted the Henriksdal with a new, frou frou skirt! Here’s how:…
Ektorp chaise made slim and modern
Photo: IKEA.com Materials: Ektorp chaise (no side arms), canvas painter’s dropcloth (or 3 yards of another fabric), heavy duty staple gun & staples, 3 packets idye natural in “gunmetal grey”, 1 cup non-iodized salt, 4 6” taper round wooden table legs (mine were from the Waddell company), 4 sets leg…
Lack coffeee table & lace
Materials: Lack coffee table & Alvine curtains Description: 1- Clean the surface 2- Use transparent wood glue which is white until it dries 3- Stick the curtains 4- Wait until dry 5- Use varnishing spray for finishing touches 🙂 ~ Bahar Gursoy, Turkey
Lillangen end unit as coffee table with storage
Materials: Lillangen end unit Description: 4 Lillangen unit combined together ~ Pasquier Nicholas, Nantes – France
How I made a Baseball Side Table with glue and resin
I wanted to make a baseball side table to use up some of my not-so-valuable baseball cards. Materials: LACK End Table Glue Gun and Glue Sticks Epoxy Resin Baseball cards How I made my baseball side table I went out and bought the 22″ x 22″ LACK side table. Then,…
Lack goes Vintage
Materials: Lack Coffee table (birch effect), stain, paint in different colors, clear paint, sand paper Description: Our Lack table didn’t match the rest of our furniture anymore, so I looked for an idea to fit in. First I sanded the thin layer of clear paint from the table, hoping to…
S-Lack coffee table
Materials: Lack TV bench x 2, Lillangen leg frames, drillDescription: 1.) Assemble the Lillangen leg frames 2.) Screw them to the bottom of the top and middle table tops 3.) Install the first side piece to the bottom table as per instructions 4.) Fasten the middle table to the first…
Gross cushions to clean wooden seats
Materials: Aron chair, wood, paint stain, wood glue. router, hand saw, 2 “L” brackets, laquer Description: We bought these chairs used, and with 3 young children, they quickly got nastier than they were originally. My husband decided he could fix the issue. We unscrewed the bottom of the chairs, and…
Lack Table Face Lift
Materials: 2 Lack side tables, tools to assemble table, PL Premium Adhesive Description: You fully make 1 of the tables as directed and then take the top from the other table and glue them to the bottom of the fully assembled table using PL Premium construction adhesive and voila new…
Customise your Lack with Gesso
Materials: Lack tableDescription: I gessoed the table completely then applied torn bits of paper from magazines, ads, show tickets, bus tickets, letters, stamps, a few scraps of handmade papers I had lying around, junk mail, you name it, using a matt acrylic medium. After it was dry I applied a…
Make your LACK table a monochrome unicum
Materials: LACK table, 4 rolls of black tape Description: I had an old square LACK table for roundabout 5€. After a few removals the clean white soul of my table was very scuffed and shabby. So I decided to hack it. Due to deficiency of cash and time, I chose…
Curtain panel bluff and room divider
After with Panel Curtain Room Divider! Before Materials: IRJA Curtain rod set, Riktig curtain loops/hooks, Betydlig ceiling brackets, KAJSA curtain panels,Drill, screwdriver, hammer, hacksaw, mounting screws Description: I wanted the look of the curtain panels but didn’t want to double the cost by using the recommended rails and sliders. Before…
Coffee Table Coaster Frame
Materials: Vittsjo, Poster Board, Beer Coasters, Mod Podge, Hot Glue Description: This simple hack can turn your coffee table into a frame for an awesome collage. By using the fairly inexpensive Vittsjo coffee table ($50), some poster board, hot glue, and a little elbow grease, you can have yourself a…
Armchair 30 minute makeover
Materials: very old IKEA chairs, nonage on them, spray paint and 8 covered buttons Description: Found these chairs at my local thrift shop. Removed the pine colored legs and spray painted them Oil-rubbed bronze. Covered 8 buttons with a sunburst material. Drilled holes through the back. Sewed on the covered…
Box sofa … the IKEA Karlstad version
DIY your version of the gorgeous Autoban box sofa Two of the things I love most in this world are modern design and cats. My cats have destroyed furniture in the past so when it was time for a new sofa I was determined to outwit them by finding a…
