What can be more important than storage to make your space functional and keep it stylish avoiding clutter? I think, nothing. As IKEA is famous with its storage furniture and more than that – with cool hacks of this furniture, I’ve decided to round up the best storage furniture renovations that impress. Here you’ll see all the most popular storage items by IKEA that are on. Choose your perfect hack and go for it!
Ivar
Ivar cabinets are perfect for giving them a totally new look, from a laconic to bright and colorful one, as these are plain and simple pieces. Ivar cabinets can be attached to the wall and painted or stenciled in a bold way for kids’ toy storage or put on legs and stenciled in an elegant way to create a chic storage piece or even a home bar – who said you can’t change the function?
A library cabinet of Ivar painted navy and spruced up with gold touches.
A very bold Ivar hack with paints and real flower stickers will make a statement anywhere.
An IKEA Ivar cabinet spruced up with hairpin legs and cane doors.
An Ivar dresser spruced up with stencils looks very creative and bold.
Floating IKEA Ivar cabinets to comprise a kitchen, each door painted a different color.
IKEA Ivar cabinets painted and attached to the wall become creative kids' toy storage.
IKEA Ivar cabinets painted navy and with brass legs look super stylish and bold.
Plain Ivar cabinets turned into a stylish home bar in purple, with copper legs and leather pulls.
An IKEA Ivar cabinet spruced up with large round and colorful handles for a fresh modern look.
Pax
Pax wardrobe is an iconic piece by IKEA, and I can name and show such immense renovations that you won’t recognize it even! Contact paper, paints, new knobs, molding, adding open shelving – these are just some ideas to renovate the piece and there are many more!
An IKEA Pax wardrobe in black with gilded knobs looks very chic and art deco.
An IKEA Pax wardrobe in olive green, mounted on the wall and with open shelving.
An Pax wardrobe done in classic blue, the color of the year, and oak handles.
An IKEA Pax wardrobe renovated with fabric panels for a stylish nature-inspired look.
Malm
IKEA Malm dresser is a blank canvas and you can create whatever you prefer. Try bright tropical contact paper, molding and knobs and pulls and even a secret headboard storage piece – turn on your imagination and create your own hack!
A simple Malm piece is updated using moody tropical contact paper for a trendy feel.
An IKEA Malm dresser turned into a chic vintage piece with overlays and brass knobs.
IKEA Malm dresser spruced up with simple gold contact paper looks glam and chic.
Kallax/Expedit
Kallax or Expedit items are the most popular IKEA pieces for hacking, and there’s a ton of ways to do that depending on the piece you have at hand. Covering it with weather wood, adding countertops and compartments, putting the piece on casters and changing a shelf into a kitchen island or bar – that’s not even all!
An IKEA Expedit shelf covered with weathered wood and put on casters looks wow.
An IKEA Kallax turned into a mobile kitchen island with a wooden countertop and some closed compartments.
An IKEA Kallax shelf turned into a chic and mobile bar cart that can be used indoors and outdoors.
Other Items
Among other items I’d like to pay your attention to are IKEA Rast dresser, Tarva and Hemnes dressers, Metod cabinets and Stockholm sideboard. All of them can be easily and stylishly hacked to make them fit your space, don’t forget that you can not only change the look but the function and meaning of the piece, too. Check out the ideas below and go creative, guys!
A minimalist nightstand made from two MOSSLANDA picture ledges stacked on each other with an LED strip inside.
An IKEA Hemnes hack with geometric brass knobs looks very glam.
An IKEA Tarva dresser is made amazing with wooden dowels and some white paint.
Metod cabinets with Fenix panels look very stylish and accommodate a lot.
A Stockholm sideboard with gold hairpin legs and a geometric design with gold foil tape.
A daybed made up of three IKEA Alex drawer units is a great piece with much storage.