What’s so great about these ideas? Everything. They make adding stylish function to your home fun and easy. In fact, you can DIY any one of these 13 IKEA hacks in a day or less.
At $35, you can’t beat the price. Its compact size (it’s only 12-inches deep!) makes it a handy storage solution for tiny narrow rooms and hallways.It is perfect for hacking. The RAST’s untreated solid wood surface begs to be painted, stained, you name it.
Several coats of paint and stain transformed this hardworking piece of furniture seen on IKEA Hackers into a rare beauty. The frosting on the cake is the gold drawer pulls. To make you’ll need six IKEA TRONES cabinets. A pack of three costs around $40. Next, you’ll use a power drill and the enclosed mounting hardware to install the TRONES onto a wall. To brighten things up, wrap with LED strip lights like these from IKEA’s DIODER series. To make, you’ll need:
Two VALJE cabinets. One with a door and one without a door.Four IKEA HILVER furniture legs.
To attach the two cubbies use wood glue. For the best results, use clamps to secure the cubbies together while the glue sets overnight. After you drill holes for the screws that came with legs, attach them. Her project uses paint to create the eye-catching design, which virtually anyone with a little patience can do too in a couple of hours. Here’s the supply list:
Foam paintbrush for creating the “swooshes.” The one she used is 1-inch wide.Foam pouncer with a flat head for creating dots. The one she used is 1-inch round, which is roughly the size of a quarter.Fabric paint.
That’s why we heart this IKEA HJÄLMAREN hack by IKEA Hackers. It transforms the two-hook towel rack into a sleek, bike hanging system. To make you’ll need:
One VARIERA Box with a handle.One set of furniture legs.
Skels, a self-confessed crafter, was inspired to build this feline hideaway after seeing something similar on Etsy for a whopping $100. She says this DIY is insanely simple to do. Here’s how:
If you have a KALLAX shelving system, congrats, you’re nearly done! If not, you can buy one for around $64. You’ll also need a box designed to fit snugly inside a Kallax cubby like the IKEA TJENA or IKEA DRÖNA. Skels went with the latter. It costs around $5. Next, use a bowl to outline a cat-sized opening on one side of the box. Afterward, cut out the opening using the ingenious method shared by Skels on Click Click Snap Snap.
This tutorial found on Thingiverse shares how you could quickly create a plastic assembly clip specifically for this IKEA crate using a three a 3-D printer. To do this, she attached two pieces of finished, maple wood roughly 3-inches wide and 54-inches long.
First, she secured one piece of wood to the wall using 2-1/2″ screws.Next, she secured the rug in between both pieces of wood by fastening all three items together using 1-1/2″ screws.Afterward, wood caps were added to hide the screw heads.
You’ll need two things:
One KRUSNING pendant lamp. It only costs around $10.A lampstand (without a shade).
First, flip the KRUSNING upside down. Next, fit it on top of the lampstand. Congratulations, you’re done—unless you want to secure the pendant’s cord to the stand using a couple of small cable ties. Using paint, washi tape and decoupage glue her DIY gives the hardwood stool a fresh look:
First, she painted it white using spray paint. FYI, chalk paint applied with a brush will also get the job done but without the mess or smell.Afterward, she covered the steps with colorful strips of washi tape.Next, she applied several coats of Mod Podge, a decoupage glue, to seal and protect the surface.