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an empty room with white cabinets and blue walls

I transformed my office with a custom built-in storage solution using four IKEA Billy bookcases! To make it even more functional, I added a center section doubling as my husband’s standing de…

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The Ikea Billy bookcase is an iconic piece of furniture and perfect for hacking. It's such a simple base that you can do so much with an Ikea Billy hack. We've brought together all the very best Ikea Billy hacks for you here to give you inspiration. #ikeabillyhack #ikea #billybookcase #diy #ideas #inspiration #hacksaholic

a white china cabinet with the words before turning ikea into custom built ins

We’ve hacked IKEA, and we are loving the results…so far. This is part 1 of how we did it! For this project, we used the Hemnes furniture line from IKEA, again. This time we used two Hemnes glass door cabinets with four drawers. Simple and plain…just my style. We love working with this line of furniture because it is solid wood. It’s not particle board foiled over with plastic and paints beautifully! (We don’t prime this stuff, just usually give it one coat of our trim paint; Sherwin Williams…

an empty room with white bookcases and hard wood flooring in the middle

The first time we walked into this house, I knew instantly I wanted some sort of built-in in this room. Originally, I was wanting to do a wall of built in bookcases on the wall to the right since t…

a woman sitting on the floor in front of a bookshelf with a potted plant

I've been planning to write up a post with more detail about the Home Office built-ins' trim work even before the One Room Challenge ended. I think many of us are visual learners, so hopefully having the trims listed out will help if you want to do a similar project. I started with Target bookcases, but I think the premise can be applied to any basic bookcase. And feel free to use these trims as a jumping off point. There are so many different options, so mix and match to cover seams and…

a living room filled with furniture and bookshelves

With a lot of space available in the lounge, we wanted to create some storage and have somewhere to put all our books. A quote from a contractor to build a custom bookcase came in above £1,000 and so we decided to do it ourselves using the ubiquitous Billy bookcase from Ikea. Task number one was to build a frame to raise up the lower cupboards and allow for a skirting board to create the built-in look. Since this has to carry the weight of a set of cupboards, plus bookshelves and all of the…

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