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.
See these ideas before you customize the IVAR cabinet
We bought some IVAR cabinets to make a customized wall…
IVAR expands into a Nintendo arcade cabinet
Discreet arcade games cabinet built into the IVAR system. I…
DIY Faux Fireplace from IKEA kitchen cabinets
Love having a fireplace but the house doesn’t come with…
A beautiful design idea for the IVAR cabinet with doors
A wall of IVAR cabinets with doors engraved is astonishingly…
Coffee table and side table hacks
No Beer Lack Hack
Materials: LACK table, wood pattern I wanted to give some…
Laptop stand to 50’s retro coffee table
Greetings from Switzerland, where we also love IKEA hacking! This…
Metod kitchen cabinet meets modern mid century console
IKEA items used: 1 Metod wall cabinet 1 Maximera low…
Infinity IKEA mirror in LACK coffee table
IKEA item used: LACK Coffee Table We like the LACK…
IKEA Groland Kitchen Island Bathroom Vanity and Coffee Table
This is really two projects from Ikea Groland kitchen island.…
MARIUS stool gets new direction
Materials: MARIUS stool from IKEA street sign screws and washers…
IKEA Bookshelf Hacks
Box shelves: Make them really quick and easily
I hacked the IVAR shelving system, because I wanted to…
42 EKETs make a unique IKEA Cube Bookcase
We built a new house three years ago and now…
The BILLY bookcases are made for built-ins and here’s proof
The goal behind the IKEA hack was to create a…
See it. Or not? How to make a BILLY bookcase secret door
We wanted to achieve two goals with one project: Find…
The IKEA Billy Project: A BILLY library like no other
Benjamin sent in his massive IKEA BILLY project — a…
Rattan doors for the EXPEDIT / KALLAX cubbies
This is an old hack of mine. I had an EXPEDIT…
IKEA Hacks for sofas, poufs and stools
From Marius to Ektorp Headrest
Materials: krakris pillow, Marius white stool Ektorp is a comfortable…
4-in-1 Ottoman
Materials: Kallax shelving unit, Rekarne coffee tabl Using the Kallax…
Make Ingolf bigger
Materials: INGOLF Lately we visited the Ikea here in the…
VITTSJÖ Nesting Table turned Chic Cocktail Ottoman
I wanted a cocktail ottoman to use as a table…
Diamond Tufted Kulla Pendant Lamp Ottoman
Materials: KULLA Pendant Lamp I was at IKEA going through…
BESTA storage footstool
Since our couch was always covered with not-so-fancy fleece blankets…
All our IKEA Living Room Hacks
How to disguise your Bike Trailer as a end table
I created this hack for two reasons. It saves space by not having to store my bike trailer and I really thought it would look interesting to use the trailer as an end table. To use the bike trailer all I do is lift off the top and connect to…
Extendable Board Game Table made from IKEA TV stands
We have a small apartment but wanted to host board game nights without a huge table taking up space. This board game table IKEA hack took around 2 hours total, and cost around $180. The expanding board game table gives us flexibility in using our limited amount of space in…
Stripped down these IKEA items and the results are fab
I started with two HEMNES pieces — a bedroom end table and the wooden TV stand in black. I picked the TV Console for the size and storage. It also fit my wall proportions perfectly and the drawers give me ample room to keep DVDs, games, controllers as well as…
RAST gets an Anthropologie twist with furniture stencils
Furniture stencils can turn any old, boring, hand-me-down and create a modern bedroom dresser. Furniture stencils are one of the easiest DIY tricks that can transform an IKEA piece and give it a second chance. Materials: IKEA Rast Dresser Neera Bone Inlay Stencil Kit Dense foam roller Stencil brush Benjamin…
Chic bedroom storage from two $35 RAST dressers
We got the RAST chest of drawers for our tiny bedroom because nothing else could fit. Before I even knew how I was going to hack the bedroom storage, I fell in love with these beautiful brass handles from Aliexpress. The delivery took a while but when the beauties finally…
Full height built-in bookcase from IVAR units
I would like to share my hack of IKEA IVAR shelving system into a built-in bookcase. It all started with the wish to have a bookcase that could store all the books we still had in the moving boxes. I could not find a bookcase that would fit the space…
Fabric sliding doors gets dust away from BILLY
I have 2 BILLY bookcases for some years now. And I wanted to close them up but not with the classical doors (heavy, not nice and expensive) and more in line with my living room style. So I decided to hack fabric sliding doors for my BILLYs. I tried to…
Tree Shelf – FROSTA X goes green
I’m a French YouTuber who makes vlogs, each week a new topic. I hacked the IKEA FROSTA stool into a tree shelf and I made a video about it: The video is in French but you’ll find English subtitles for a better understanding. The idea is based on the famous…
Daybed reading nook with IKEA bookshelves
Jessica shares her IKEA hack — a daybed reading nook — made from 4 BILLY bookcases. It’s amazing how it turned out. They used 1×4’s and 1×6’s to built bases for the shelves and the daybed portion. Then, they cut plywood to size to top the daybed and cover the…
KALLAX side table with storage is the perfect small nightstand
For this simple yet effective hack we used a single 1×1 KALLAX unit and transformed it into a combination bedside table and daytime small side table by adding BJORLI legs and a drawer insert. The KALLAX unit is in my new home office and we needed it to work for…
IKEA bookcases framed for the basement
I wanted a more robust and sturdy look for the IKEA bookcases to be installed in my basement. The final results look good and my family seems to like it. It took about 15-10 hours of work, with plastering being the hardest and most time consuming bit. The set up…
Apothecary cabinet from RAST chest of drawers
If you are wondering how to turn your RAST dresser into a handsome apothecary cabinet, I have just the hack for you. IKEA item used: RAST chest of drawers Other materials: Plywood (3mm thick) Drawer handles File label tags Wax Stain The dresser has 3 drawers. I changed only the…
Custom Built-in Entertainment Center hacked from HEMNES units
We wanted a built-in entertainment center / wall unit in our basement that we were finishing. Custom cabinetry was considered but it was way out of our budget. Then, we came across examples of others using HEMNES cabinets as a starting point and loved the idea. IKEA Item: HEMNES bookcase…
Hack a long Dining Bench with Storage for $200
A really easy to put together, cheap and effective dining bench that spans the entire length of our dining room. It was pure luck our wall space wall is the exact width of two BJURSTA bench seats. IKEA items and other materials: 2 x BJURSTA bench seat (discontinued, so thank…
How I transformed an IKEA table into an Infinity Mirror Coffee Table
I recently made myself an Infinity Mirror Coffee Table using an IKEA LACK coffee table. It turned out pretty cool! I made a video tutorial of how I made it. Take a look. Tutorial for Infinity Mirror Coffee Table hack Materials: LACK coffee table Glass – 73cm x 43cm x…
Paper Mache Scuplture — Furry Friends coffee tables
I made paper mache coffee tables sculpted like a dog and cat. And I named them Hulky and Siam. Below are the instructions I made — on what I call — the MOJO tables. The base of both paper mache coffee tables is the LACK side table. IKEA Item Used: IKEA…
SVALNÄS…reloaded
When I was a child in the 70s, some of my relatives had those shelving systems like the one you can see in the image below, the Royal System® Shelving by Poul Cadovius, a famous danish designer. I’m pretty sure they had a replica, given the prices 😉 Photo: dk3.dk In…
KALLAX Hide-away TV & Cascading Room Divider
I recently got myself an open studio loft, so I finally had a chance to get creative. I wanted to share my massive IKEA KALLAX room divider, but more specifically, my hide-away TV that doubles as an art piece (with the added feature of allowing me to choose to watch TV…
Making space for 3: IKEA PAX as a room partition
We were faced with a problem, we had to move into a one bedroom flat. But there’s three of us – me, she who must be obeyed and our seven year old son. The sole bedroom wasn’t that big but it did have an alcove with a fitted wardrobe and…
TAAC!!! The making of an IKEA room divider
IKEA items used: n°2 Stuva closets + n°1 Nordli bed/ n°1 IKEA complete Kitchen We designed this custom hack for a small loft in the historical district of Florence. The loft is about 26 square meters (280 sq. ft). In order to save space we created a central core. It…
