IKEA Bed and Bedroom Storage Hacks

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We like IKEA beds for their affordability and versatility, but what we love is how easily they can be customized to fit our needs and home decor style. 

There are a lots of clever IKEA bed hacks to cater to your living situation, style, and storage requirements. From clever storage beds to one-of-a-kind design modifications, these IKEA bed hacks can make a significant difference in your sleep space without breaking the bank.

So, if you're looking to enhance your bedroom while staying within a budget, it's worth considering some of these innovative ideas.

What are IKEA bed hacks?

IKEA bed hacks are creative ways to modify, customize, or repurpose IKEA furniture - not limited to their beds - to better suit one's needs and personal style.

These hacks can help enhance the functionality, aesthetics, and versatility of a bedroom space, providing unique and personalized solutions for various bedroom challenges.

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This is how I made a waterbed frame from IKEA KALLAX

This is how I made a waterbed frame from IKEA KALLAX

This waterbed frame hack is very similar to the “A full-sized bed built from KALLAX shelves + a DIY headboard”, but was build to support a full-sized waterbed. This construction…

A full-sized bed built from KALLAX shelves + a DIY headboard

A full-sized bed built from KALLAX shelves + a DIY headboard

I had been thinking about buying a harder mattress and bought one spontaneously one day. But I made a mistake in thinking that I had a full-sized bed, when in…

Upholster your headboard with woven canvas

Upholster your headboard with woven canvas

After a year of waking up in the middle of the night because my 3-year-old had hit his head on his Fjellse headboard AGAIN, I decided to take matters into…

Hack a Storage Bed that’s massive enough for your entire wardrobe

Hack a Storage Bed that’s massive enough for your entire wardrobe

This is one heck of an IKEA bed hack. Stefan made a storage bed. Correction: It’s a bed with massive storage, probably enough to fit my entire wardrobe.It’s a fantastic…

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IKEA Headboard Hacks

IKEA headboards are often barebones. With some creativity, you can transform a basic IKEA headboard into a luxe focal point for your room.

Some popular ways to upgrade an IKEA headboard is to use paint, cane webbing, or to totally reupholster it. This technique is especially good for headboards like the TARVA or BRIMNES bed.

A quick and easy method is to use wallpaper on the bed frame, allowing you to incorporate a wide range of patterns, colors and texture to your bedroom design.
BILLY boards into headboard

BILLY boards into headboard

Materials: Old BILLY bookcases, dacron and a SANELA curtain. The sides of a couple of old Billy bookcases that I did not need anymore was cut with a jigsaw to…

Mandal Headboard, in 3D

Mandal Headboard, in 3D

This is a simple project, take a birch HAMMARP countertop to create a frame. Cut down a MANDAL headboard to the width of your bed, and bam, you have a…

BILLY as a headboard with storage

BILLY as a headboard with storage

So we wanted something at the back of our bed, in order to store lamp, radio, books etc… and we considered buying a BRIMNES but was not suiting us 100…

The Original IKEA Malm Billy Head Board and Under Bed Storage Hack

The Original IKEA Malm Billy Head Board and Under Bed Storage Hack

I desperately needed more storage space in the bedroom and was frustrated that I was unable to efficiently use the space under my original style Malm low bed or behind…

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All our IKEA Bed Hacks

Making a loft bed from the DALSELV

Making a loft bed from the DALSELV

Materials: DALSELV When we realised that we will become parents for the first time, we had to create a bedroom for our little daughter. Therefore we used our homeoffice-room and brought our decks in our own bedroom after bringing our Dalselv-Bed up on 160-170 cm above ground. With wooden posts and…

Manly Leirvik

Manly Leirvik

Materials: LEIRVIK Bed The LEIRVIK Bed comes with a beautiful but quite feminine top part. As gorgeous as it is, some times you might get tired of it, especially since the bed itself is nearly indestructible and tend to stick around for quite some time. To make the design a fair…

Halfbunked

Halfbunked

IKEA item used: MYDAL Bunk Bed Frame Cut my unused bunk bed in half and took the top bunk and flipped it over. Now it’s a cosy day bed and doubles as a cat house for my pets. ~ Stephanie

A captain bed with extra storage place

A captain bed with extra storage place

Desperately needed space. In order to increase the storage in my flat, I decided to build a captain bed from scratch. So first I create the base with 6 STUVA structures (60 x 50 x 64 cm) 3 on each side. I added one structure at the head. At the…

BILLY Bookcases transform into Queen Murphy Bed

BILLY Bookcases transform into Queen Murphy Bed

We live in Manhattan where space is a premium. We are fortunate to have a playroom that also needs to double as a guest room. Our idea was to hide a queen murphy bed behind our IKEA BILLY bookcases. What’s a murphy bed? A Murphy bed is also called a…

DELSEV bed: Raising the Stakes

DELSEV bed: Raising the Stakes

Materials: IKEA DELSEV So I had an IKEA DELSEV single bed frame which i bought off someone who didn’t need it anymore. Great sturdy bed for $25, but I wanted more space in my rented room, so I decided to go loft. I did some research for ideas to convert…

DALSELV bed gets cushy new life

DALSELV bed gets cushy new life

Material: Old DALSELV double bed frame $31 on ebay. Recycled the retired single mattress foam topper Recycled two retired single cotton padded mattress protectors 2.5 meters 150cm wide triple weaved upholstery fabric in grey from spotlight at 30 percent off, $34.50. 1x 8mm mdf board $6.60, Bunnings will cut for you…

Ikea Expedit Platform Bed

Ikea Expedit Platform Bed

Materials: Expedit bookshelves x 2 You will need a piece of plywood, 2 4x4s, 2 2x4s, T brackets, screws and nails.  You will also need two Expedit bookcases.  My husband began by building the base out of 4×4 posts and 2×4’s to brace between them.  The height of the 4×4 posts…

Teenage Dreams to Antique Reality

Teenage Dreams to Antique Reality

Materials: Noresund Queensized bed frame The Noresund Bed frame was my first queen sized bed as a teenager. I loved the swirls and how it was almost antique looking. When I finally moved into my first house I was lusting after a real grownup bed and fell in love with…

Lofted / Raised MALM Storage Bed converts to 18″ of Storage!

Lofted / Raised MALM Storage Bed converts to 18″ of Storage!

Making a home comfortable is a challenge anywhere, but even more so in a 250sq ft NYC apartment. The bedroom measures 8ftx8ft, so please excuse the tightly cropped pics! Before this all started we were sleeping on a boxframe and mattress on risers with a bedskirt, and things just stuffed…

Put together a Stolmen 165×215 cm bed with storage

Put together a Stolmen 165×215 cm bed with storage

Materials: Stolmen, Lack, Fyndig Description: We wanted a bed with a lot of storage. We achieve it with : – 3x STOLMEN 110×50 cm – 3x STOLMEN 55×50 cm – 3x LACK 55×55 cm – 1 LACK 55×55 (cut in 3 parts) – 2 FYNDIG 220×60 – 2 LACK 30×26…

How to raise the Malm bed (FINALLY)

How to raise the Malm bed (FINALLY)

After reading through multiple ideas on how to successfully (and safely) raise the Malm bed; I came up with a viable and easy solution – and I wanted to share with everyone. I had read a post about using 4 beams as leg supports for the bed, but that will…

Malm Bed Diagonal Filler Piece

Malm Bed Diagonal Filler Piece

Materials: Malm Bed, 78cm Lack coffee table, 2 Adils Legs. Table saw, drill, screws, screwdriver Description: Placing a large bed along a wall you tend to create an aisle around it. If instead you place it diagonally on a corner, and four triangular spaces are created, including one behind the…

Hemnes Headboard Update

Hemnes Headboard Update

Materials: Hemnes Description: I originally bought the Hemnes bed frame because it was on sale and I can’t pass up a deal.  Honestly, it’s sort of dull and made my bedroom feel sad. I wanted to get a fancy new one and was debating whether it was worth the $1,000+…

Bed Frame with Lots of Storage

Bed Frame with Lots of Storage

Materials: 2 Malm 6-Drawer Dressers, 2 Malm 2-drawer chests, two boxes built out of MDF measuring 16x9x19 inches, 1 Sultan Luroy Bed Slats (Full size), 1 Full size mattress Description: My girlfriend recently moved into a New York City apartment, and our bedroom is very small. There is no closet,…

RAST Storage Bed Hack

RAST Storage Bed Hack

Materials: RAST 3 drawer dresser x3 Description: I moved to a new 1 bedroom apartment recently without a lot of storage space, so I was inspired by this site to try my own hack. My initial plan was to buy a MALM 6 drawer like with this hack but when I went to Ikea…

Bed hack: Expedit, Vika and Ribba’s perfect union

Bed hack: Expedit, Vika and Ribba’s perfect union

Materials: 3 Expedit shelving units; 1 Expedit cube; 1 Vika Amon table top; 1 Ribba picture ledge; 1 bed base; 1 mattress. Description: Here’s an ikea hack of a tall double bed with nightstands and headboard: all black, all clean, lots of storage. Just stuff put together, no extra building necessary. I…

Space saver bed

Space saver bed

Materials: Stolmen chests and Lack tables Description: Living in a small one bedroom apartment, We needed a solution to put all our clothes in a single space so we could eliminate a chest of drawers that took up a third of that bedroom. The solution was a captain bed but looking around…

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