It’s amazing what you can do with Ikea furniture when you think outside the box,
and we’ve scoured the internet to find the best Ikea hacks for all over the house!
Transform standard Ikea pieces into custom furniture with these hacks
using standard styles available all year round, with amazing results.
1. Custom Statement Bench Only having a couple of armchairs in
your apartment is fine and dandy until you want to have a bunch of friends over for a Netflix binge.
Don’t let a lack of seating options get between you and a viewing party with your pals; whip up
a bespoke bench to accommodate extra visitors. give an unassuming wooden bench a completely new
look with some foam, a staple gun and a swathe of stylish fabric.
2. Sneaker Shelves Don’t hide your shoes
away in boxes or at the bottom of your closet. Take a moment to admire your kicks collection
each and every day by displaying your most prized possessions on a Lack wall shelf.
While most Ikea shoppers would only think to store books, DVDs or bric-a-brac on their Lack shelves,
this clever sneaker head opted to arrange his favourite sneakers on the shelves.
3. PS Cabinet Makeover Love the retro PS Cabinet? Make your PS
twice as nice by stacking a second unit on top to create a cool sideboard with plenty of storage.
The Little Wild One explains how to remove the legs to combine two units into one
but warns against trying to replicate her stippled paint effect as it can be a costly affair.
4. Wall Mounted Drawing Station
It’s a simple fact of life that kids love to draw. And once they run out of paper,
they’re likely to turn their attention to your lovely clean walls! Keep them occupied for hours
on end with a wall mounted easel that stores more paper than they’ll know what to do with!
5. Salad Bowl Modern Lighting Fixtures
You don’t make friends with salad but you can certainly make some pretty amazing lighting
fixtures with salad bowls. Ranging from $1.99 to $9.99
the Blanda Blank serving bowls are an affordable alternative to expensive designer pendants.
6. Colourful Rattan Chair Yarn Bomb Add a pop of colour and personality to any area
with a yarn-bombed rattan Stockholm chair. Yarn bombing, the practice of
covering objects with crochet, is easy-to-do. Feeling particularly thrifty and or eco-friendly?
Instead of buying yarn you can also use strips of jersey cut from old clothing.
7. Woven Placemat Coastal Cushions Continue the beachy boho vibes into your sitting
area or bedroom with Stylkea‘s placemat hack. Select from woven placemats including Ihållig,
Samtliga and Sluten, then sew two matching placemats together with twine and a yarn needle.
Pad with stuffing and voila, you have coastal chic cushions.
8. Malm Decal Makeover Not all Ikea hacks are created
equal. While some are labour intensive, others are a cinch. Like this one, that
transforms a standard chest of Malm drawers into a statement piece with just a pack of decals.
9. Coloured Kura Kids Bed
The Kura reversible kids bed in white and pine is Scandi chic but few children appreciate a
paired-back Scandinavian approach to design. If your little one prefers pink to pine,
this Kura bed hack is likely to make bed time a lot more fun! Simply add a lick of paint to the
pine edging and decorate the plain white panels with wrapping paper applied with spray adhesive.
10. DIY Donut Wall Cement your status as host or
hostess with the mostest by treating your friends and family to a donut bar at your next party. This
ikea hack transforming a humble Lack coffee table into the donut bar of your dreams with
paper straws, doilies and paint. Perfect for baby showers, birthday parties or any other event.
11. Bedside Table with Bulk Storage Never lose track of your phone charger, slippers,
book or air conditioning remote ever again with a bedside table that’s brimming with storage.
A cost effective alternative to mid-century night stands that often retail for $500.
You’ll need wood filler, leather straps, teak stain, black paint, nails and strong glue to
execute this fabulous project. 12. DIY Desk
Don’t let an uninspiring work station put you off cramming for an exam or completing an important
project. Create a productive environment on a budget with a desk made from two sets of Alex
drawers with a Karlby worktop positioned on top. Ideal for students, artists or anyone who spends
long hours at their desk and needs plenty of room to spread out, this hack can be modified to fit
just about any space – simply add more drawers or a longer worktop to maximise your available area.
13. Luxe Mirror Side table This Offering a truly stunning end result,
this project doesn’t even require any special tools – just scissors,
double sided tape and acrylic plexiglass that has been cut to size by a professional.
Use your luxe Lack as a bedside table to give your bedroom a boutique hotel vibe.
14. Vittsjö Colour Upgrade Vittsjö is one of Ikea’s most-hacked items and
with good reason – it’s such a versatile piece! If the black-brown finish of Vittsjö isn’t to your
liking, change things up with a couple of cans of spray paint in a colour of your choice.
15. Faux Fur Stool Nineteen years into the ‘new’ millennium
and millennial pink is still proving to be one of the most popular colours on the colour wheel!
Add a touch of this on-trend hue to your dressing area with a quick and easy Marius stool hack.