Mudroom, Laundry Room, or Entryway Organization Cubbies By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: 2 KALLAX Shelving Units

These Mudroom or Laundry Room organization cubbies are made from two white KALLAX Shelving Units. It also has the 4 KALLAX doors on the top unit, and 4 SKUBB Baskets to the bottom. Before attaching the units, we covered the wall with bead board, and wrapped it on each side after units were set into place. Crown molding on the top, and toe molding on each side were added to get the full built-in effect.

The left side consists of 3 wooden boxes stacked on top of each other, drilled into the wall, and painted white. To ensure the hooks are able to hold the weight of my kids schoolbags, we cut a strip of baseboard and hung it upside down drilling into the studs. This guaranteed us the ability to screw into a solid piece of wood for all 4 hooks. The laundry basket is ALGOT frame with the additional casters.

~ Robin

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Cross-stitched FROSTA stool By: Jules IKEAHacker

Materials: FROSTA stool

A little paint and masking tape, a power drill, some wool and a needle – that’s all you really to transform a simple FROSTA stool into something really unique! The flower pattern and full instructions are provided in here on This Little Street.

~ Audrey

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How to add leather pulls to the IKEA BRIMNES By: Maria

Materials: BRIMNES 3 drawer chest frosted glass, white

We have more than couple of pieces of IKEA furniture at home. After some years of looking at them, I have decided that now it’s the time for upgrading their look. As it turned out, IKEA furniture hacks are quite easy to do. You don’t need a lot of time and at really low cost you can nicely customize the pieces which look exactly the same like in the apartments of at least ten of your friends.

My latest project was adding leather handles to the Brimnes 3 drawer chest in our bedroom. The total cost of it was in our case 0€ (we had all the materials at home). It took approximately 1 hour.

Steps:

1. Remove old handles from your Ikea Brimnes chest.

2. Cut 3 leather pieces of stripes (I cut 3 x 22 cm), if you cut on the floor, use something to protect the wood.

3. Install the anchors in the old screw holes

4. Make 2 holes in the ends of each leather piece.

5. Attach the leather pieces on each drawer door using screws.

Click for some pictures and more info on the project.

Maria

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TRENSUM mirror with backlight By: Wojtek Siudzinski

Materials: TRENSUM mirror

Using mirror with low light conditions can be challenging this is why I combined TRENSUM mirror with a LED strip. Thanks to small processor hidden in the base, lights have multiple brightness levels and even can have different colors. Included battery allows it to be used anywhere and when it’s out of power it can be charged with regular USB.

Full description with instructions available here.

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The MOTHER of Appliance Garages By: John Howard

Two GALANT Roll-front cabinets, white, mounted as wall cabinets atop standard base cabs. Removed bottom shelf/feet so that countertop runs continuous through bottom of garage. Added enough outlets to plug in 16 items.

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Happy thanksgiving from IKEAhackers By: Jules IKEAHacker

While Thanksgiving is not a big celebration here in Malaysia, I do have much to be thankful for, even without a big feast awaiting.

Let me take a moment to thank all of you for your friendship, support and kindness, especially through the rough spots this year. I want you to know that it means a lot to me and your cheering me on helped me stay strong through it all.

In these 8 years working on IKEAhackers, I value every hack you have shared, commented on, pinned on this site and IH’s social streams. I know I don’t say it enough, so let me just take this time again to say thank you. I am grateful to play a part in this community.

To all who are celebrating, happy holidays and enjoy your time with family and friends.

~ Jules

Here’s a lantern hack which is just perfect above a Thanksgiving table.

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Materials: REGOLIT paper lantern, wood veneer strips.

1. Glue the wood veneer strips onto the paper lantern with a hot glue gun.

2. When the veneer has adhered, remove the paper off the frame. It takes some work though getting the bits off.

3. The remaining horizontal lines were cut in small pieces gluing both ends to the verticals, one by one.

4. Attach the light fixture.

See the REGOLIT lantern hack here.

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Travel play kitchen from TROFAST storage box By: Astrid

Materials: Bygel container, Kullar lunch box, Trofast lid, Trofast storage box

* Draw the outlines of the Kullar lunch box on the lid.

* Cut a hole in the lid which fits the lunch box.

* Draw circles (with a glass for example) on 2 cork coasters.

* Paste the coasters on the lid.

* Fit the lunch box in the hole.

* Put the lid on a Trofast storage box.

* Hang the Bygel container on the edge of the storage box.

* If you travel, you can put all the toys inside the box.

* In the lunch box you can keep little toys or the play food.

* You can choose to take a bigger or smaller storage box depending on the occasion.

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Spa style bathroom for renters By: Milou Moelard Nord

My parents (Wout and Mieke Moelard) live in a rental apartment in the Netherlands and wanted a rustic, spa-style bathroom without installing fit cabinets. So they bought two GROLAND kitchen islands and painted the bottom part black. My dad installed a stone bowl sink on top of it and voila!

Now my mom is out shopping for baskets to put on the bottom shelves.

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