Amazing IKEA hacks for every room

The truth about IKEA products

IKEA is a multinational company based in the Netherlands. The company provides ready-to-assemble furniture, kitchen appliances and home accessories. The company was established in Sweden in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad who was only 17 years old then. Ingvar Kamprad was listed by Forbes Magazine in 2015 as one of the ten wealthiest people in the world. IKEA is known for its modern designs of furniture and appliances. Its interior design concepts are inspired by the principles of minimalism.

IKEA furniture are sold pre-assembled and are designed to be self-assembled. This concept helps the company reduce the cost and use of packaging. This is also helpful especially for Europeans who commonly take public transportation. The company is also the pioneer in sustaining approaches to mass consumer culture. The manufacturing and distribution of processes of the company are responses to the developing problems in the environment and human population.

IKEA hacks and ideas for your home

There are many IKEA products that can be used in dozens of creative and beautiful ways. These IKEA products can be used in such ways to add storage into your home. It has been said that a home is not complete unless good IKEA hacks is evidently seen in the home.

Here are some amazing IKEA hacks that you will truly love for every room:

1. Old Storage Makeover – Old cabinets with drawers can undergo makeover to become trendy furniture for modern houses. Wooden pullout drawers can be played with and drilling circular holes can be done to have that trendy look for an old cabinet.

2. Gold accent wall shelves – One of the easiest IKEA hacks. Wall shelves can be attractive in the room by spraying the brackets with gold paint. Add gold decorative items to transform the appearance of your room. You can also do this on the frames of your canvas prints for that instant pop.

3. Farmhouse coffee table – This is an easy yet elegant hack which can also provide you with increase storage in your homes. You will be needing 2x4s, stain and cut them to appropriate size and glue them onto the coffee table.

4. Kitchen island cum dining table – A kitchen cabinet can be transformed into a kitchen island or a dining table by adding appropriate size of wood and placed at a particular area in the kitchen. Not only that this will provide additional storage, but will also come in handy in preparing food and other kitchen activities.

5. Kitchen island/dining table/wine racks – A multipurpose furniture that can be placed in the kitchen or in the dining room. A table that can likewise be a wine rack and a kitchen island is one of the innovative ways to save space and add storage area.

6. Wine rack – Stack up bunch of tower rails. The number of which depends on you and the number of your wine collection.

7. Dresser/Kitchen sideboard – dresser in the kitchen may sound weird in many homeowners but other people may not notice it. Coat the dresser with a coat of white paint and add some knobs to create one of the greatest storage in your home.

8. Floating industrial bathroom shelf – you will be needing a number of pipe, pipe elbows and LACK wall shelves. The outcome will be a minimal, rustic modern shelf for the bathroom.

9. Retractable Drying Rack – hanging the clothes outdoors may be impossible especially during rainy days. To create this type of drying rack. Use a Sniglar crib to create a Murphy-style drying rack that can be stowed away when not in use.