“IKEA Tips, Hacks And More”: People In This Facebook Group Share The Best Hacks They’ve Tried
IKEA has been designing and selling ready-to-assemble furniture for decades. The company operates 460 stores in 62 markets and aims to, as it says, "offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home ... products at prices so low, that as many people as possible will be able to afford them."
And it's succeeding. Every year, IKEA welcomes more than 680 million customers in its stores and around 3.8 billion on its website, amounting to sales of 39.5 billion EUR (or 41.8 billion USD) in the fiscal year 2022. However, with around 10,000 products, some clients are having doubts if they can make the most out of the retailer's supply.
This is where the internet comes in. There's a Facebook group, called 'IKEA tips, hacks and more!' and as the name suggests, it invites people to share their proudest shopping discoveries. Whether you are already planning a complete makeover for your place or are simply looking for some DIY project inspiration, this online community might have exactly what you need.
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The Window Seat I Built In My Bedroom, Using The Nordli Drawers
This is amazing! It lets the light in and you still have the storage! Well done
We Aren’t Fully Done With This Laundry Room Upgrade But It’s Already So Much More Functional!
IKEA hacks have even become their own cottage industry — other retailers sell products specifically made to work with the company's furniture.
So how did the brand become so influential? At the heart of its success is value. Similarly to McDonald's, you know what you’re going to get when you shop at IKEA, and it's going to be affordable.
In fact, price is so important to the company's strategy that it first decides on how much a particular product is going to cost and then reverse engineers the construction.
IKEA Kitchen Cabinets In The Bathroom
Thanks To Malm Bed With Drawers, I Neither Need To Accidentally Step On LEGO Nor My Son Get His City Dusty. Ready To Be Played With When He Wishes
Made «the Death Star» From Ps IKEA Lamp
The company has a "democratic design approach," according to Antonella Pucarelli, the chief commercial officer of Ikea retail U.S., which means that it “deliver[s] form, function and quality products at a low price. Even though our products are affordable, we don't compromise on quality."
(IKEA has had high-profile recalls of millions of chests and dressers after several tipped over and harmed children. In response, it admitted the chests and dressers could be dangerous and offered free kits to anchor the chests and dressers to the wall, as well as refunds.)
I Used Fejka Plant Tiles To Decorate My Veranda Roof
Put them together in rows of 4, then fastened each row to a 5x1m plastic garden fence. Put in a light chain. Everything was then fasten to 8 shower rods. For fastening I used green metal thread. The shower rods had to be a 2-3 cm wider than the space so they could hold up.
This Is My Hack To Stay Organized; I Don’t Know Where I Learned This, But It Has Been A Huge Help To IKEA Projects; A Muffin Tin
I Needed Storage Space In My Hallway For All My DIY Stuff. This Is My Idasen. I Went To The DIY Store And Got A Cheap Roll Of Wallpaper For The Doors. Now My Stuff Is Hidden Away
For The Cat
Some of IKEA's products are made from wood, some are made from particleboard (recycled wood chips fused together), keeping production more affordable.
IKEA furniture is shipped and sold in flat-packs, which makes transporting it cheaper, and customers put it together themselves (or pay for someone to do it for them), further reducing labor costs.
IKEA Malm Chest Of Drawers, Bought Used, Removed 4 Drawers So The Dogs Each Got Their Own Sleeping Space In The Living Room
I Made The Kids Moppe A Bit More Fun With Wallpaper
Who Says IKEA Is Only In Favour Of Home? We Have A Different Home. A Home On Wheels. Our Facility Is Made Entirely Of IKEA
I’m What Is Known As An Afol (Adult Fan Of LEGO) And I’ve Come Up With An IKEA LEGO Minifigure Hack
I’m what is known as an AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO) and I’ve come up with an IKEA LEGO minifigure hack.
I used:
* 2 x IKEA Gnedby DVD/CD units (often cheap on Gumtree as people are getting rid of their DVDs/CDs) screwed together
* 1 x IKEA Oxberg glass door
* Moulding (I used 42x11x275 primed wood lengths from Bunnings)
* I finished it off with 3x20 LEGO plates (trimmed from 32x32 baseplates)
Now I have dust free LEGO minifigure display/storage! 😊
Edit:
I had a third Gnedby that was broken and I could salvage the shelves from, so the number of shelves shown in my pictures is more than you’d get with just 2 units (so with 2 units you'd just space the shelves a little further apart)
I had to drill the holes for the door to go on as they were not pre-drilled - I used the holes on our Billy bookcase as a guide to where they should be positioned.
You can get around 25 minifigs on each stand (more if you space them closer), however I did 20 on most shelves as the door obstructs a bit on either side. Where there were themes that had more than 20 minifigs I just put the ones I didn't like as much in the column that would be harder to see.
And the simple style of the furniture is not just because it’s a Scandinavian aesthetic. It's actually easier and cheaper to make affordable versions of such furniture look good.
"IKEA's aesthetic is pared down and minimal, which is not an accident. Uncomplicated forms with very little applied decoration are easier to manufacture. More can be produced in a shorter amount of time, increasing efficiency and decreasing production costs," Ashlie Broderic, interior designer for Broderic Design, told CNBC Make It. "The Malm bed is an excellent example of simple rectangular shapes combined to create a very chic bed."
I Created A Unique Piece Of Design By Putting Together A Mirror And A Coffee Table From The Stockholm Series By IKEA, I Attached Them Together With Bi-Adhesives To Avoid Ruining Them And Being Able To Reuse Them Later
Brilliant! (Hahaha BP just told me: you're posting comments too quickly, slow down)
Pull Out Bed Camouflaged Between 2 IKEA Pax Cupboards
Simple And Easy Tricks Dronjons Magazine File Converted Into Storage For Scarves And Gloves, Umbrellas Or For Something Else
Love Love Love My Powder Room Vanity Made From The Möllekulla Oak Worktop!
And "most of IKEA's furniture is available in black, white, or unfinished wood. By producing more items in fewer finishes, IKEA takes advantage of economy of scale,” Broderic said.
All this makes the “aesthetic per dollar” ratio very high, added neuromarketer and author of The Buying Brain Dr. A. K. Pradeep.
He explained that IKEA's affordable style is its "category-busting-metric," or what makes it stand out from all the other brands in that space.
Just Glue A Vinyl Record Onto A Marius Stool For A Neat Table
We Built Our Own Laundry-Dry Drawer From The Maximera Drawer Pulls
My Weekend Job
Previously a dumping ground…
SMÅSTAD / PLATSA wardrobe, KALLAX cubes and BERGSHULT shelf with GRANHULT brackets, all white but painted with dark blue After Midnight Frenchic paint.
KARTOTEK hooks screwed onto pallet wood.
All baskets and fake foliage from IKEA.
TV bench from different brand, covered with pallet wood, stained and waxed for maximum protection.
Made a massive difference to the entrance and we love it
IKEA Sektion Hack
IKEA's stores also appeal to the subconscious mind, which is the primary decision-maker. “Furniture is set up in its natural environment,” Pradeep said, which your subconscious brain appreciates. “Every single thing there is contextually in position. The brain perceives it, understands its inherent value, and therefore desires it.”
Bestå Hack, As Wood Storage
We Bulit A Play Kitchen With Cooking Island And Seating From Two Duktig Kitchens Ready For Bulky Waste. A Few Little Things Are Still Missing, But My Daughter Already Loves Her Kitchen
We Used IKEA Countertops As Our Mud Room Bench Top. Love How This Came Out
No More Rambling To Get A Hanger
But at the same time, there are always new and unexpected items to discover along the way. Both of these things are positive triggers in the brain.
"A great store will give you the sense of comfort and familiarity and will also give you the pleasure of discovery. That is when retail becomes retail therapy," Pradeep highlighted.
Made From The IKEA Method Upper Kitchen Cabinets. A Floating Dresser 3 M Wide TV Cabinet 4.10 M Wide And 2.60 M High
I Had A Small Space Between The Wall And The Closet, I Assembled Three Cabinets Each 15 Cm Deep. Just Have To Mount The Wheels And Make The Hutch That Will Take The Furniture Back, And Add One On Top To Wire
For Parents With Lots Of LEGO Mini Figures: Sannahed Frame Used (Took The Front Cover Off- Used Velcro Command Strips To Hang Them)
Or… just for people… like meee… I’m mean I’m not a PaReNt but…
Finally Got Some Storage For Spices And Stuff In My Tiny, Tiny Kitchen
Very smart, and because it's not directly beside the stove it won't get greasy quickly. Love it!
It often feels that even though IKEA products are minimalist and beautifully designed, there are 10 billion parts that you, the buyer, have to put together. But that might also be a win for the company. We feel more connected to our purchase if we have to put work into it ourselves.
Daniel Mochon, a researcher and associate professor of marketing at Tulane University’s business school, calls this the IKEA effect. "We come to overvalue the things that we have created ourselves,” Mochon told Shankar Vedantam, the host of NPR's podcast Hidden Brain.
A Little Spring Nice In The Little Hall
Try To Make A Side Table With This Chair
IKEA Trofast & Ivar
“Imagine that you built a table. Maybe it came out a little bit crooked. Probably your wife or your neighbor would see it for what it is, you know, probably a shoddy piece of workmanship. But to you, that table might seem really great because you’re the one who created it," Mochon said. "It is the fruit of your labor, and that is really the idea behind the IKEA effect."
And it's a big part of the reason why communities like 'IKEA tips, hacks and more!' exist in the first place. You get hooked.
A Slightly Different Greenhouse Made Of Picture Frames
This Has Become Our Pantry! All Billy's With Two Separate Billy's Converted As Wine Rack
Upcycled An IKEA Toy Box, Aka Småstad, Into A Deluxe Litterbox
The Old Classic; The IKEA Rast Drawers! I ‘Upcycled’ The Plain Pine Drawers Into A Taller Drawer Unit, After Not Being Able To Fond Quite What I Was Looking For Online. Hope You Like This Little Project
Showroom Display Unit. Billy Bookcase With Mosslanda Picture Shelves To Hold Plates. Angled Shelves And Trim Work
I Used The IKEA Mackapar On My Closed In Veranda For My Climbing Pots Plants. I Think It's Come Up Really Nice
This Is My IKEA "Hack". It's A Restaurant And Toilet For My Cat
This might look nice to humans but it is absolutely not nice for the cat. The space is much too small and the smell build-up must be disgusting. Also they prefer to eat and drink in different places, and they definitely prefer not being cornered into a small box while doing it. Same thing for the litter box. I mean they might comply with that at first, but I would absolutely not be surprised if the cat starts to do things outside the litter box.
Hubby And I Built This Together Almost 6 Years Ago. It Was Definitely The Reason We Made Such A Profit When We Sold Our House
My Husband And I Finished Our Playroom Built-Ins For Our Two Daughters! We Put Our Own Spin On An IKEA Hack Using Havsta Cabinets
Behind These Doors Are IKEA Pax Wardrobes. Had To Cut One Down To Fit The Gap Exactly. And Then Made Doors For The Wardrobes And Panelling For The Sides And Fireplace To Make It Look More Seamless
Built A Hallway Storage To Fit Our House From 1914. Built With IKEA's Place Buds Bought From Other Store
Is it possible to have these people help me with my flat? It's gorgeous!
I Made This Easy Budget Wall Decoration With Vinterfest Ring, Some Yarn And Roses From My Loved One. I Think It Turned Out Quite Cute!
Our Garage. Just Off Our Kitchen. Using It For Pantry Space, Hubby’s DIY Stuff And Also I’m A Hobby Baker. Used Billy Bookcases, Trofast Units And Pax Wardrobes
Part Of My New IKEA Kitchen
I Seen This One On A Fb Video And Had To Steal It … Love It!!
This Is My IKEA Duktig Play Kitchen And Flisat Children's Table Makeover. And My Favourite Part Of Playroom
Pax And Besta Hack- In Love With Our New Bootroom Thanks To My Hubbys Hard Work
Love the color! Although I'd kill him for getting paint on the nice floor.
An IKEA TV Bench That We Remade By Removing The Handles, Putting On A Sharpened Board (Which We Got Over From The Wall), And Putting The Remaining Floor On Top
We Just Put Together 4 Brimnes Cabinets! Such A Great Option vs. Builtins. I Was Thinking About Swapping Out The Pulls But I Think They Are Ok As Is
My First IKEA Makeover …the Kallax ! Now I Can’t Wait To Make Over Every Piece Of IKEA Furniture I Have !
Before And After- Daughter Room Makeover
Now Our Walk-In Closet Is Finished With Chests From IKEA, A Little Fix And Just The Finishing Touches
Refused To Pay $800 To $2000 For A Credenza. This Is 2 Ivar Cabinets With A Piece Of Pine Added To The Top, Some Trim Wood, Paintable Wallpaper, Handles And Osark Legs
This Is My Self Made Doggy Grooming Salon Counter. The Corpus Is A 3x2 Kallax
This Is Our New IKEA Method Kitchen. My Husband Assembled The Whole Kitchen By Himself, It Took A Month But He Did It
I Love Swimming And After 2 Teenagers Blocking The Family Pool In The Meantime I Got This Bathtub / New Under Roof Bath From My Family. A Previously Unused Space Under The Slant
Our Little Boy Loves His Bed
Really wanted that lamp until I found out it's 300+ dollars. My bunny lights up the room enough on his own.
I Made This Room Divider As A Display Cabinet Against The Dining Table And Entrance Furniture Against The Front Door
Just Transformed Our Old Expedit (Yes, Not Even Kallax Yet) By Adding LED Stripes To The Back. Now I Have Some Great Place To Display Our Souvenirs
Bought Two Worn Hemnes For Sek 50, Wooden Pack, Hard Lacquer Color In The Same Color Number As The Supermatt Wall And New Handles
My Husband Made Us This Display Cabinet In Our Kitchen Diner From Billy Bookcases
Created A Room Divide Using Vidga Panel Curtain System. Added Wooden Plinth To Hide The Rail And Upgraded The Plastic Base Rails With 61cm Visback Poster Hangers
IKEA Hack With Kallax Cupboards And Rubberwood. The Stockholm Mirror And Lustigkurre Baskets Were Also Not Missing
Besta Cupboard Finished With Björköviken And Polish Pine
Kallax Transformation
IKEA's Series Nordli Is So Good
Sometimes IKEA Is A Hack On Its Own. When You Have A Small Hallway And Want To Store Your Shoes. Happy
Our IKEA Kitchen. We Didn’t Have Much Room To Work With, But We Were Able To Maximize The Space We Had With These Beautiful Cabinets!
Smastad With Trofast As A LEGO-Table, A Small Pöang, Platsa Cuboard (Backside Covered With Wallpaper), Skadis And Ledberg
Very Happy With Our New Corner Desk Made Up From A Combination Of Kallax, Alex And Bekant
Smastad Has Now Become My Household Cabinet
I Really Wanted A Plant Wall In The Bathroom, But There's No Natural Light
.... after a lot of investigation, ikea seemed to have the best price-quality in these wall-squares (that you can easily hang).... if I saw them lying in the store, I thought "mnaaah, that doesn't look good". Luckely, they hung an example nearby, and there it already looked much better...
I bought some extra fake plants, wich I cut up and glued in between to make it more dense and camouflage the sides.
6 Brimnes Cabinets, 2 Black Lack Shelves, 5 Oak Lack Shelves, Lots Of Measuring And Sawing Later And This Is The Finished Result
We Did A Built In Desk In The Basement Using The Enhet Kitchen Base Cabinets & Saljan Countertop. I Needed Something To Transition The White And Black Wall And Thought The Enhet Metal Shelf Does The Job!
Got This Adorable New Little Vase From IKEA Today For Propagating Plant Cuttings! It’s Perfect. I Kinda Want The Larger Version Now
Our LEGO Area Is Done
That's optimistic of them to think the kids are going to put the colors in the correct bins. :)
A Different Way To Use IKEA Pax Wardrobes In Our Kitchen - We Wanted A Bar Set Up That Could Be Hidden Away Until Party Time
the bottle shelf (and most of the shelves on the pantry half of this) are bowing severely. I'd upgrade with reinforced hardwood because these are MDF
My First IKEA Hack Using Trones And Blodlonn Mirrors, Transformed My Space And Given So Much More Storage
Using Flatpack Furniture Such As IKEA Instead Of Going Fully Bespoke With Joinery Affords Us This Wall-To-Wall Acoustic Panels Which Definitely Gives A Warm And Hushed Ambience To Our Living Room
Small Entrance Way Storage Complete! Thanks For All Of Your Ideas!
We Couldn’t Find A Desk We Wanted So We Made One Out Of Ikeas Kitchen “Bodbyn”
We Recently Downsized And Was In Need Of Closet Space For Clothes. We Decided On The Pax System For One Of Our Spare Bedroom Walls
Sharing Brimnes Bookshelf Hack Turned Into Wall Cabinet Feature
When I Couldn’t Find The Right Mirror For The Room, I Made It
IKEA Ivar + A Handy Husband = Magic
LED Lighting And Back Panel Added To The Kallax
Рах + Еnhet => Laundry Room
Kallax Is Great For Dessert Tables!
IKEA Picture Shelves Are The Perfect Fit For Displaying Boxed Funko Pops
We Didn’t Need The Changing Table Anymore, So We Made Two Play Tables Out Of It
Went To IKEA Yesterday And Bought Some Stuff To Make Small Scale Plant Frames
Did You Know The Jonaxel System Is Amazing To Put Shoes Away
IKEA Hack But With Two Small Variants
I Macgyver’d This To Display My Sons Hard Work. It Turned Out Better Then I Imagined
IKEA Trofast For The Win. I Made These Extra Storage With Trofast System In Kid’s Closets
My Kallax Makeover. I Love How It Turned Out
To Get Rid Of A Strange Protrusion Of The Wall Behind Which Pipes Are Located, I Made This Closet. I Closed The Bottem With A Wooden Frame. Which I Then Decorated With Bamboo Sticks, Baskets, Cupboards And Drawers And Voila, Very Happy And Proud Of The End Result
IKEA Dressing Made To Our Liking With Many Modules And Internal Lighting
IKEA Smastad Hack
Made This Beautiful Dressoir Last Year From Three IKEA Ivar Cabinets
I Recently Made This Bookcase Out Of Pass Modules For Our Little Hallway
Besta
Very Happy With My Kallax Upgrade. Kallax + 3 Door Units + 1 Drawer Unit
Ivar Hack
Just Wanted To Show You My New All IKEA Hallway. So Much More Space Than Before
These $5 IKEA Shelves (With Brackets) Are Exactly What I Needed To Organize My Smaller Plants
So Happy With My Hallway (Finishing Touches/Decor Missing) I Was Sick Of Shoes, Coats, Clutter On Show. Used Task Rabbit For The First Time And They Were Amazing - 1 Hour To Build These Would Have Taken Me Forever!
My Little Baby Space. Two Staircase Trofasts With A Change Pad On Top. Trofasts Storage Bins For Cloth Diapers And Accessories, Clothing, Diaper Storage
Our LEGO Table That Folds Down And I Put The Alex Drawers On Wheels!
ETA: the table is called Norberg. Alex is the name of the drawers that hold all the legos (not pictured).
Dollorama Corner Shelf Added To My Detolf Greenhouse Cabinet
From This…. To This!!!!!
Needed More Shelves In Bathroom. Then Remembered Läckö In The Balcony
Ribba Frame, Some Strings And A Staplegun, And You Get A Hanger For Your Sunglasses
"Kallax" Upgrade With A Wooden Plate And Fitted To The Wall. I Hope You Like It
Used A Kallax 5x5 As A Room Divider. Clad In Mdf, Painted, And Used It As A Picture Wall
After Removing An Integrated Dishwasher
Dressed My Kvistbro On The Inside With A Linen Fabric
Different Ways To Use IKEA Besta Frames
I Have 2 Ancient Kallax (? ) Screwed Over Each Other And Dressed With Lasered Spruce Wood Plates. Also Lasered Spruce Boxes And Now They Can Live Here For A Few More Years
IKEA Malm Chest Of Drawers
Addition To Our Dining Room
My Living Wall And Mirror Going Up My Stairs
These are the old Ship of Theseus in a lot of cases. "I brought this cheap, flimsy furniture and all I had to do was use my carpentry skills, expensive tools, replace the chipboard with some sturdier wood, paint...". Like sure, it all looks great, but you might as well have just built it from scratch.
Building my wardrobe from scratch would've cost me €2000. So I bought IKEA Pax (€700), borrowed an electric saw from my dad (could've rented for €7/day), and cut Pax to size where needed, then assembled everything. I saved more than 50%. I know the material is not as good as custom made closet, but it was either Ikea or no closet at all.
Load More Replies...I liked the post, but only some of them were hacks. Using a shoe cabnet to... store shoes! Is just using the product for it's intended purpose. Better to re-lable the post as ikea furniture rather than hacks
These are the old Ship of Theseus in a lot of cases. "I brought this cheap, flimsy furniture and all I had to do was use my carpentry skills, expensive tools, replace the chipboard with some sturdier wood, paint...". Like sure, it all looks great, but you might as well have just built it from scratch.
Building my wardrobe from scratch would've cost me €2000. So I bought IKEA Pax (€700), borrowed an electric saw from my dad (could've rented for €7/day), and cut Pax to size where needed, then assembled everything. I saved more than 50%. I know the material is not as good as custom made closet, but it was either Ikea or no closet at all.
Load More Replies...I liked the post, but only some of them were hacks. Using a shoe cabnet to... store shoes! Is just using the product for it's intended purpose. Better to re-lable the post as ikea furniture rather than hacks