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
The table clock
Materials: Ikea Bravur wall clock, small old round table, black lacquer, adhesive, saw, brush Description: I became fascinated with the “DIY” madness. For a long time I wasn’t interested in…
Lack on wheels
Materials: Ikea Lack table and Ikea textile, 4 litle wheels, Powertex, paint, varnish Description: Put textile on table with Powertex (4 layers). Let dry for a few days. Then put…
DIY painted "driftwood" table
Materials: Hemnes coffee table, Milkpaint, brushes, electric sanderDescription: I bought a long time ago this HEMNES coffee table from IKEA. I sanded them a little and got the paint to…
Upholstered Hack-a-Lack With Nailhead Trim
Materials: Lack side tableDescription: I needed an upholstered ottoman for my den and hacking a LACK side table was the way to go. It was inexpensive and easy and took…
Turning new tables into vintage farmhouse finds
Materials: MARKOR sofa and side tablesDescription: To make my Ikea Markor sofa and side tables have a little more character I decided to distress paint them to take them from…
Klux4
Materials: Klubbo Nesting Table, 1″ wood screws, 2x4s, wood stain, polyurethane Description: Step 1: Remove top of Klubbo Nesting Table Step 2: Measure area where you want 2×4 surface. Step…
All our IKEA Living Room Hacks
Lack Side Table Beautification
Materials: Ikea Lack Side TableDescription: Supplies Ikea Lack side table – $10 8 Brass Corner Plates – 2 packs of 4 came to be $12 Brass Fabric Nails – 3 packs of 25 came to be $6 Tools Hammer Small Phillips head screw driver Tape measure Small drill for making…
Working class hero
Materials: Solstad olarp, Old jeansDescription: Upolstery with old jeans and jacked. Painted legs red. There are pictures of other hackers in my link to my blog also. From Ikea Leangen, NorwaySee more of the denim reupholstery. ~ ide-puffen, Norway
Billy Sideboard
Materials: Billy, Applad cabinet doors, shelves and Capita legs Description: I used to live in a small apartment and needed a discreet storage in my living room. Many sideboard is pretty deep and a high bookcase can steal some of the space instead. I solved this problem thanks to Billy,…
Sofa Fleece Blanket Bin and Magazine Storage
Materials: VIKA ANNEFORS x2, White Emulsion Paint, Glue (Double-sided Adhesive Tape or Instant Grab Adhesive) Description: We needed somewhere to store our sofa’s fleece blankets and my wife’s collection of magazines and newspapers. We already had a white BESTA JAGRA TV Bench so I wanted a similar looking piece of…
3-Pointer! Recycled timber vs basketball vs Ikea Klubbo
Materials: Klubbo (Nest of 3) TablesDescription: We’d bought an Ikea set of tables a few years ago. They served us well, even surviving our first daughter and her drawing / painting / play-doh / doll mash-ups. Over time the veneer cracked, and edging started to peel away. The tables’ futures…
Pretty Nordmyra Chair Camouflage
Materials: Nordmyra chair, wallpaper, spray adhesive, knife Description: I found a Nordmyra chair in the clearance section that had been scratched on the seat. Nothing a little camouflage can’t fix! I cut pieces of leftover wallpaper to size for the seat and back, and used spray adhesive and then covered…
Upholstered Malm Console Table
Materials: Malm Console Table, staple gun, 4 yards of fabric, fabric glue, tack strip Description: Cut fabric in half length-wise (so it is half of the 54-inch wide fabric). 27-inches perfectly covers the top and sides of the Malm table. Lie fabric down flat on the floor, upside down, and…
RE-LACK-IT
Materials: LACK tableDescription: Cool coffee table design. It’s very easy to do, you only need to glue the tables that appear in the photo. Hope you like it!See more of the Ikea Lack coffee table. ~ Guillermo Sanz, Málaga, Spain
Karlstad Swings
Materials: Karlstad Chairs and Loveseat, U-Channel, CablesDescription: We wanted to create a fun sitting area for employees of our advertising agency to brainstorm creative ideas for clients. We took standard Karlstad furniture, bought some metal U-channel, plastic coated cable and suspended them 8″ from the floor.~ Bronson Smith, Smith Brothers…
TJUSIG Shoe rack turned small bench
Materials: TJUSIG Shoe rack, some pieces of lath, some oak, Description: Just wanted to share a small bench I made from a TJUSIG Shoe rack. I realise that IKEA also sell a bench like that (with the same name) but I didn’t want it for 2 reasons; it’s too big…
New modifed LACK tables
Materials: LACK Tables, LACK wall shelfs & VIKA Curry legsDescription: Main Table: Cut the 8 LACK tables and 2 LACK wall shelves (shelves to white table edge on the pictures) to fit as the picture shows. Use screws and heavy duty silicon to bond the tables together. Make two storage…
Old chair – new chair
Materials: An ancient Ikea office chair (the new version of it is called Snille, I have no idea what this was called back then): fine sanding paper, spray primer, spray paint, 2 Nedda chair pads, universal glue.Description: Sand chair with fine sanding paper before painting, spray paint with primer, spray…
Rover/Poang Chair
Materials: Leather Rover car seat and Ikea Poang chair frameDescription: I was inspired by Ron Arad’s 1981 Rover chair, which utilised a leather Rover car seat with galvanised steel scaffolding poles for the legs and arm rests. My Ikea Hack follows the same theme utilising a black leather Rover car…
Lack coffeetable drawing
Materials: Lack, black marker, GlitsaDescription: We have a Lack coffee table that has been used for six years, and unfortunately there were some small damages on the tabletop. I first found it a too big and too white surface to put in our new living room, but I did want…
Bernhard chair to barstool
Materials: Bernhard dining chair Description: Well, I recently created this for my home- a piece for the space off the Kitchen needed a BarStool- and since IKEA’s “As-Is”/Returns area just happened to have this white Bernhard Dining chair for sale for $59.00 US (normally 139.00 US) I thought- what the…
‘Karlstad sofa’ becomes a ‘Karlstad sofa-bed’
Materials: Karlstad two-seat sofaDescription: I had a problem. I was in desperate need for sofa bed for my quests, but I didn’t find any proper model anywhere. And I liked my Karlstad sofa very much. So I had an idea. I transformed the left side armrest in a way that…
Goliat drawer unit bench
Materials: 2 Goliat drawer units, thick foam, upholstery material, 2 sided sticky tapeDescription: 1. Remove the casters from the 2 Goliat drawer units 2. Put them next to each other in a corner 3. Make a pillow case from upholstery material to cover the thick foam cut out to match…
Another Frosta Side table
Materials: Frosta Stool Description: We needed something to hold our drinks while on the couch. We live in a small apartment so we didn’t want a coffee table that takes up floor space. But didn’t want to pay $199 for the STOCKHOLM side table. I saw a few Frosta hacks…
Minecraft-inspired window seat/stools
Materials: Solsta Pallbo stools, Hampen RugDescription: I wanted a window seat in my spare room that could double as spare stools for when visitors come around. With limited space, the Solsta Pallbo stools were small enough to do the trick. I realised their shape and colours (2 dark grey and…
Fur Desk Chairs
Materials: Torbjorn Swivel Chair and 2 RENS Sheepskin Rugs Description: I “re-upholstered” 2 Torbjorn Swivel Chairs in faux-fur with 4 RENS Sheepskin Rugs total. I laid one small fur rug along the front of the chair and one on the back. I used about 25-30 safety pins to pin the…
