35 Cool IKEA Hacks For An Original Home Interior

Easy IKEA Hacks to Transform Your Living Space

1. An IKEA Basket Table

It’s incredible what you can do with these inexpensive items from IKEA. With a little imagination and creativity, you can transform even the plainest furniture items into stylish and modern pieces to decorate your home. All of these cool IKEA hacks are projects that cost very little to recreate and will brighten up your home with a new and exciting piece of furniture or décor. It’s a great way to spruce up your home without spending a fortune in the process.

29. Chic Side Table

30. Funky Hanging Planter

The Brunsta pendant lampshade from Ikea has a beautiful and modern design, almost like an abstract, geometric sculpture. You can obviously use it as intended but you can also take a different approach and turn it into a cool hanging planter like the one featured on horsesandheels. This is a really nice and ingenious way of adding greenery to a small space or decorating a room without relying on the same old techniques that everyone is familiar with.

31. DIY Mudroom

If you have an Ikea dresser but you find its look just a bit too simple, go ahead and give it a makeover. You can paint it a new color and add a few hardware accents to really spice up the design and to give it more character or make it better-suited for your decor and style. We suggest checking out homeyohmy if you’re in need of some inspiration.

32. Cupboard Makeover with Chalk Paints

33. DIY Feather Lampshade

Some transformations can be quite impressive, so much so that you can barely recognize the original elements that went into the project. For instance, before this became an awesome Lego table, it started off as a simple Trofast storage module from Ikea. It got casters on the base for mobility, Lego baseplates on the top, a fresh coat of paint, and the detail that really sells it – wooden circles attached to the sides that make it look like a giant Lego brick. Check out thehandymansdaughter for additional info.
The Marius stool from Ikea may not look like much at first. It’s very simple and it’s also inexpensive but it also has lots of potential if you want to transform or customize it. That brings us to a great Ikea hack that we found on burkatron. It combines this very basic metal stool with a slice of wood and the result is a very chic side table.

34. DIY Painted Chair Makeover

Mirrors are great accessories because they’re useful and they can also serve as cool decorations at the same time. Rather than trying to find a mirror that looks exactly the way you want it to, it can sometimes be easier to customize it yourself. There’s a nice tutorial on thethingsshemakes that shows how you can transform a simple Stave mirror from Ikea into a stylish accent piece using only lead trim tape.

35. DIY Charging Station

Many of the items in Ikea stores are a wonderful source of inspiration for lots of cool DIY projects. They can be combined, transformed, and customized and the list of possibilities when it comes to these projects is basically infinite. It’s always fun and exciting to see what others came up with so we’re going to do that right now. Below you can find a bunch of cool Ikea hacks that stood out during our research. They’re really clever and we hope they can inspire you to try your hand at something similar.
Sugar and Cloth takes a plain chair and brings new life to it with this painted chair makeover. This is the ideal project for any tired piece of furniture that no longer fits your home’s color scheme. Of course, you can customize the paint and design to fit your current home décor.
A lot of the furniture pieces and units you can find in Ikea stores are modular which means you don’t necessarily have to stick to the original plan and you can come up with your own way of rearranging them based on your needs. A great example here is the way in which this Besta TV wall unit was customized to fit this living room. Some of the modules were mounted onto the wall as intended but the others were raised by installing wooden legs on them. Check out tomfo for more details about the project.
A small Ikea desk can be repurposed into a table for the entryway but before you do that consider making some changes to its design. How about painting it black with a glossy finish? You can also have the tips of the legs painted golden for an even more sophisticated look. That’s actually a transformation featured on stylemepretty.