IKEA Living Room Hacks

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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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Take ordinary IKEA furniture and transform them into something extraordinary. From custom built-ins to clever hidden work spaces, these living rooms showcase the creativity and ingenuity of IKEA hackers.

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

The wonder of IKEA hacking! Take IKEA furniture and modify them to fit your specific needs and space requirements.

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.

Coffee table and side table hacks

IKEA coffee table hacks are very popular on IKEA hackers. They are smaller DIY projects and a great starting point if you're beginning your DIY journey. But they are no less amazing. Here are some popular IKEA coffee table hacks.
Stainless Steel coffee table

Stainless Steel coffee table

Materials: VIKA HYTTAN table top and LACK side tableDescription: 1. Assemble Lack side table with casters. 2. Lay Vika Hyttan table face down. 3. Using a pencil and measuring tape,…

Desktop with rugged wheels as coffee table

Desktop with rugged wheels as coffee table

Materials: VIKA VEINE table top, wheels from hardware storeDescription: Inspired by a table seen in a commercial with big wheels as “feet” for a coffee table I searched through IKEA’s…

Clayton Grey Inspired Nailhead Side Table

Clayton Grey Inspired Nailhead Side Table

Materials: Lack Side TableDescription: I bought two Lack tables. I assembled one fully and used the top of the second glued it and used it as a base which created…

Rope Ain’t just for Jumpin’: Nautical Rope Table

Rope Ain’t just for Jumpin’: Nautical Rope Table

Materials: NORESUND Table black-brown, rope, drill, tacky glue and hot glue Description: Take the rickety design and turn it into a gorgeous new table. Who could resist? Here is how…

Ulsberg Updated

Ulsberg Updated

Materials: Ulsberg Nightstand, decorative paper, foam core board, x-acto knife Description: This is a really quick and easy hack that makes this simple Ulsberg nightstand into a custom piece that…

Design Frosta

Design Frosta

Materials: Frosta, paint, felt, yarn Description: Before assembling, paint legs and seat. Using the seat as a template, cut three circles out of felt in various thicknesses. Cut inner circles…

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FROSTA X – how to hack this amazing little stool

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

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 setDescription: 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. I…

Henriksdal’s New Skirt

Henriksdal’s New Skirt

Materials: Henriksdal Chair and Slip CoverDescription: 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: 1)…

Ektorp chaise made slim and modern

Ektorp chaise made slim and modern

Photo: IKEA.comMaterials: 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 attachment…

Lack coffeee table & lace

Lack coffeee table & lace

Materials: Lack coffee table & Alvine curtainsDescription: 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

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

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 ResinBaseball cards How I made my baseball side table I went out and bought the 22″ x 22″ LACK side table. Then, picked…

Lack goes Vintage

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

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

Gross cushions to clean wooden seats

Materials: Aron chair, wood, paint stain, wood glue. router, hand saw, 2 “L” brackets, laquerDescription: 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 cut…

Lack Table Face Lift

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

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

Make your LACK table a monochrome unicum

Materials: LACK table, 4 rolls of black tapeDescription: 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 4…

Curtain panel bluff and room divider

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

Coffee Table Coaster Frame

Materials: Vittsjo, Poster Board, Beer Coasters, Mod Podge, Hot GlueDescription: 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 great…

Armchair 30 minute makeover

Armchair 30 minute makeover

Materials: very old IKEA chairs, nonage on them, spray paint and 8 covered buttonsDescription: 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 buttons…

box sofa ikea karlstad hack

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…

TRÆBURET…

TRÆBURET…

Materials: Marius stool, wood, chainsaw, planer, sandpaper and screwsDescription: Went to some friends and got a big log of pine. They are rebuilding a house and also giving the garden a brush-up so the log was quite fresh and still moist. Used a chainsaw to cut up the log in…

Handpainted Update

Handpainted Update

Materials: IKEA Coffee TableDescription: I had this coffee table from IKEA, which has nice clean lines to it – but I wanted to do some thing exciting to it – a herringbone pattern with paint markers. I used silver and gold metallic paint markers for this. And I have drawn…

Overlapping gliding panels

Overlapping gliding panels

Materials: Kvartal, Anno TupplurDescription: We have a rather large window on the living room, approx 2.5m wide, where we wanted to place some panel curtains (like the Anno Tupplur ones). However, these ones are quite narrow (about 60cm), so we would need 5 panels and to rethink the “standard” rail…

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