Ikea built in alcove hack

We recently bought a new house. Ever since I laid eyes on the living room, I knew I wanted built in bookcases along the back wall with the fireplace to make a functional focal point of room. Bookcases are my favorite way of storing toys/materials for the girls. Everything has its own place to live that's easy to access, and it forces you to not over clutter. Here's the before photo of the living room when we bought the place. So, along with the other projects we asked around for quotes on…

Hannah Briggs on Instagram: "HOW WE BUILT IN ALCOVE UNITS ✨💞 What do you think?! 👇🏻 Obsessed with how these turned out one year on! 🤭 We still want to add LED lighting on the shelves to make it more into a media wall but in pretty pleased with it! We basically bought two IKEA sideboards from the IDANAS range, along with some MDF board and furniture board that we had cut down at B&Q for an easier fit! We then sanded, primed and painted 🎨 before nail gunning in. Little hack 💡 take a…

We looked up a number of tutorials and blog posts on Pinterest before we tackled this project and took bits and pieces from several to come up with one that worked best for our space. Unfortunately, we had a TON of pictures of this process but Bobby's phone got destroyed and we lost them all, so I'

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IKEA Billy Bookcase hack tutorial. Find step by step directions on how to turn Billy Bookcases into a wall of built-ins.

Built-In Ikea Havsta Hack: Kitchen Cabinets : create a custom built-in looking cabinet out of the Ikea havsta cabinets. Ikea hack

IKEA built ins ⚒️ Remember that time I decided to renovate our dining room and take on a huge IKEA hack just before Christmas 😅 Here are some photos of the process, which involved us using IKEA Havsta units for the base and IKEA Billy bookcases on top. We cut one of the Havsta’s in half to fit either side of the alcoves! Answering your most common questions about this hack below: ⚒️ Getting the units to fit your space / look as bespoke as possible. I firstly measured the alcoves (make su...

Beth Wilson on Instagram: "FITTED UNIT IKEA HACK 🚪 our fitted unit hack is finally finished! we wanted built in units in our lounge but didn’t fancy paying the expensive price tag that is associated with it, so decided to give it a go ourselves using @ikeauk units and doors, some wood and MDF. we used the PLATSA units and got some extendable legs from @bandq_uk to raise the unit high enough off the ground. we also cut some of the unit out to make sure we can still reach the plugs at the…

SOPHIE ~ 1920’s Renovation ~ IKEA Hacks ~ Pastel Interiors on Instagram: "The alcove storage in our living room is without doubt my most controversial IKEA hack of all time, and still one of my favourites! 😅 When I first shared our off-the-shelf solution to bespoke built-ins, it was met with A LOT of confusion over why we hadn’t just had a joiner make the cupboards from scratch 🤔 Aside from the fact that using IKEA units saved us thousands of pounds, they also meant we could have the…