Founded in 1943, the Swedish giant Ikea has changed the way we shop design and furniture forever. In a rapidly evolving industry where new trends are born every day, while new products emerge to improve our lives, Ikea has remained relevant for almost 80 years with its solid fanbase.

And fans, they know what they are getting into – from Scandinavian minimalist design and ready-to-assemble furniture anyone can nail, to friendly prices, weird (or rather, charming!) product names, that iconic blue and yellow plastic shopping bag and simply unbeatable Swedish meatballs with cranberry sauce. How can you not love this?!

No wonder Ikea aficionados gather together in communities online to share their interest and love for all things Ikea. One such group is the Reddit community “Ikea Hacks” which presents itself as “a smart community focused on helping people build the perfect furniture for their living space using items sold by IKEA.”

With 109k members, the subreddit has become a destination for smart interior and furniture ideas to make out of Ikea products, and this is basically a treasure box for anyone in the mood for a home makeover or a full-on renovation.

Scroll down below through the smartest hacks! And when you’re done with this post, be sure to check out more Ikea hacks right here.

#1 I Finally Finished My “Library” With Floor To Ceiling Shelves (Still Need To Put In New Flooring)

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#2 I Hacked An Kvistbro Table To Be A Cute Pet Crate For My Dog (And Cats)

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#3 A Simple Hack Cutting A Keyhole Shape Into An End Table For A Handy Tree Table!

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#4 An Unusual Ikeahack – This Regency Gown Is Made From An IKEA Duvet Cover! It’s A Perfect Print For Around 1800 And Is 100% Cotton! Even A Single Duvet Cover Contains Quite A Lot Of Fabric

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#5 Ivar Hidden Desk

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#6 My Solution To Keeping The Cat Off The Desk

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#7 Adjustable Window Desk

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#8 I Painted A Kullen Into A Nintendo NES For My Son’s Room

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#9 Converted The Guest Room Closet Into A Craft Space

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#10 Turned The IKEA Ps Lamp Into A Disco Ball And I’m In Love With It!

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#11 Using Toilet Paper Holder As Headphone Stand

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#12 Saw This Billy Hack All Over Pinterest. Finally Made My Own

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#13 I Decoupaged Prints Of Starry Night To The Drawers, And Layered Metallic Paint And Medium Over Them For A Painterly Texture. Base Is Stained With Watered Down Paint And Sealed

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#14 Upgraded My Cat’s Toilet With This Bestå Litterbox Hack

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#15 I Built This Mirror Wall, Using Lots Of Mirror Tiles And Some Wood

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#16 Simple Hack, I Mounted My Ekby Hall Wall Brackets Inverted So I Could Use The Brackets As Natural Bookends For The Shelf

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#17 Whole New Level Of Hack

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#18 Duktig Doll Bed And Handmade Covers For My Little Buddy

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#19 100% Recycled Material, Some Hot Glue And Duct Tape, And A Fathers Imagination And A Happy Kid

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#20 My Fjallbo Hacked Bar

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#21 I Needed A Crafting Nook, So I Removed My Track Closet Drawers And Created This Space In My Guest Bedroom Closet!

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#22 Who Says You Can’t Have A Shed In An Apartment? 42 Units Of Trofast Units Into A Single Pax Wardrobe

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#23 Rudsta Greenhouse Cabinet

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#24 IKEA Waste Buckets, Attached To Door With Pulley System For The Lids

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#25 Tired Dad Hacks Feat. Gamleby

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#26 First Time Staining… I Love How This Turned Out! (Ivar With Foldable Table!)

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#27 Kind Of Silly, But I’m Proud Of My Ingenuity. The IKEA Lamp (Fado) Was Brighter In Home Than In Store And Hurt To Look At So I Cut A Hole In The Back Of The $5 IKEA Basket I Also Bought (No Product Name Online). Super Cool Mood Light!

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#28 Finally Finished My Custom Home Office Using Eket And Alex Cabinets!

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#29 Fintorp Used To Hang Plants On My Ceiling

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#30 Karlby Laundry Room Counter + Custom Shoe Rack/Cat Litter Drawer

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#31 Built In Pax Wardrobe

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#32 I Built A Sliding Bookcase Out Of 3 IKEA Besta Bookshelves With 6 Casters Screwed To A Large Bottom Plate

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#33 Window Benches With Storage, Made With Sektion Over Fridge Cabinets, 2×4 Base With Baseboards, 2×6 Appearance Boards On Top, Painted

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#34 Billy Bookcase With Plywood Front For The Built-In Look

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#35 Wall Panel Made Out Of IKEA Cabinet Doors

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#36 My 17oz DIY Ultralight IKEA Camping Backpack Made Out Of Frakta Bags

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#37 Added Legs To The Alex Drawer Unit On Casters To Make It The Same Height As The Standard Alex Drawer

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#38 Kallax Inserts Dresser Transformation!

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#39 Pretty Happy With How My Modified Drawer Turned Out On IKEA Micke Desk

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#40 Our Hemnes Dresser Was Falling Apart, So I Gave It A Slight Makeover

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#41 Customised Billy Bookcase TV Wall

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#42 My IKEA Kitchen With Custom Fronts

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#43 I Regret Nothing

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#44 I Used The Fabrikor Cabinet To Build An Indoor Greenhouse!

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#45 I Gave My Old Hemnes Dresser A Lick Of Paint

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#46 I Found An Hemnes Shelf In The As-Is Area And Upholstered Some Fabric To The Top To Help My Dogs Get On The Bed. They Could Never Use Pet Steps And This Is Shorter The Normal End Of Bed Furniture So They Are Able To Hop On It

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#47 Like Many, I Used The Kura As A Starting Point For Something More Fun

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#48 Skådis Propagation Station

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#49 Completed The Billy In Wall Bookcase Hack

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#50 I Turned A Boring Kallax Into Something More Pretty For My New Board Game Room

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#51 Decided To Try My Hand At Customizing The Tarva Dressers. Gotta Say I’m Pretty Satisfied With My First “Hack” And First Time Staining Too

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#52 (Home)-Office Makeover | IKEA-(Mixed)-Hack

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#53 Was Told To Post This Here. I Built A 3D Printer Enclosure From 2 IKEA Lack Side Tables. All The Blue Pieces Are 3D Printed

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#54 Hacking An Ivar Into A Cat Litter Enclosure

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#55 Hemnes Dresser Transformation!

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#56 Two 31″ Godmorgon Sink Cabinets With Plywood Top As Bedroom Dresser Drawers

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#57 Hemnes Bookshelf Hack From Cabinets And Shelves

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#58 Classic Hack

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#59 Havsta Units Turned Into A Built In

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#60 I Made My Pax Look A Bit More Early 1900’s

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#61 Upside Down Billsbro = Tiny Shelf For Holding Your Phone While Doing Paperwork

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#62 Mega Built-In With Section Cabinets!

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#63 I Made Zero-Space Bedside Lamps Out Of 2 Malm Glass Tops And 4 Crashed Trådfri Classic Brown Bulbs

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#64 My Use For The 3 Inch Gap Between Cabinets

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#65 45 Degree Built In Shelving From Two 5×5 Kallax’s

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#66 Added A ‘Wooden’ Back To My Kallax TV Stand, Using A Sheet Of Fibre Board And Sticky Backed Wood Effect Film, Makes A Nice Difference I Think

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#67 I Built A Floating Besta Entertainment Wall

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#68 This Was A Pain In The A** But Well Worth The Effort. Sektion + Grimslov, Saljan Top, Billy Bookcase Hack

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#69 IKEA Stall – Floating

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#70 Glued Some Lack Shelves Together For My College Dorm

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#71 Repurposed Kallax For Camping Gear

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#72 Got This Used Malm Nightstand For $10 And Transformed For Another $20. Not Perfect, But Was A Great First DIY Project

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#73 IKEA Elvarli Used As A Media Console – Not The Most Ingenuitive But I Hadn’t Seen It Done Like This Before So Thought I’d Share!

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#74 IKEA Havsta For Cheap DIY Built Ins

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#75 Tarva Cane Hack!

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#76 Storå Inspired Loft Bed

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#77 Kitchen Island With Added Drawers And Wine Storage. Tornviken With Ekby Alex Is A Perfect Fit!

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#78 IKEA Kallax Hack

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#79 Bar And Bench Hack

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#80 Saw Another Redditor Post Something Similar. I Also Joined Two Shoe Cabinets (Bissa) And Attached A Stained Wood Board On Top. I Love The Way It Turned Out!

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#81 Akurum Kitchen Section With Hacked 3-Into-1 Tall Corner Shelf And Adjacent Hacked Tall Shallow Cabinet

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#82 IKEA Kallax Unit With Some Cheap Feet From B&q And Internal Lighting

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#83 I Made An Entryway Shoe Rack Out Of 2 Of Those $10 TV Stands

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#84 Skadis Is Great For Gamers

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#85 Finished Building Our New Pantry. I Used Sektion Wall Cabinets Without Their Bases To See More Countertop

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#86 Eket, Alex, And Ekbaken Home Office Space

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#87 My IKEA Cabinet Wasn’t Going To Have Shelving Because Of My Plumbing So I Just Cut Around It And I Got Two Shelves!

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#88 Simple Record Player Stand By Combining The Bestå 702.458.48 + Mid-Century Mod Legs Off Amazon

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#89 Turned 180cm Knoxhult For 110$ Into 120cm Unit That Holds Built-In Fridge + Hot Plate + Washing Machine, This Is More Like Full DIY Not As Easy As It Looks But Can Be Done, Great For Tiny Apartments That Are On A Budget

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#90 Kallax Wrapped In Black Limba

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#91 Mollekular Benchtops With Built In Reading Bench. Getting Plenty Of Use During The Quarantine / Work From Home

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#92 Billy!! Girlfriend Is Happy With It. My First Thing To Build Ever

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#93 My Twinned Hemnes Shoe Cabinet

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#94 Boyfriend Surprised Me With A New Wfh Setup. Special Shout Out To Gerton, Alex And Adils. Merry Christmas Everyone!

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#95 Gave My Kallax Record Stand An Upgrade

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#96 Reupholstered Older IKEA Chair, Not Sure The Name Of The Chair

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#97 Sektion Kitchen Cabinets As A Dining Room Console!!

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#98 $25 IKEA Kallax Conversion

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#99 Hemnes Dresser Hack!

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#100 Created An Ultra Wide Desk For A His-And-Hers Computer Setup

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#101 Hacked Kallax To Hold A Minifridge

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#102 IKEA Lillangen Sink With Custom Base

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#103 First Time Hacking Anything, What Do You All Think?

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#104 Shoutout To My Husband For Building Us This Work/Play Area When I Pregnant Cried To Him About Losing Our Spare Room To The New Baby. Malm X2, Karlby, Kallax +4 Inserts & Lack X3!

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#105 Boring Hacks For Renters: In A Tiny New 1br And The Only Wall That My Malm Pair Would Fit On Was The Same Wall As The Only Power Outlet. Had To Leave A Gap To Access The Outlet, But Didn’t Want All My Stuff Falling Down The Gap. Enter Mosslanda Photo Shelves And A Large Packet Of 3m/Command Strips!

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#106 Customized Billy/Oxberg Bookcase. Added Some Brass Pulls And Some Molding Pieces

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#107 Hemnes TV Stand To Vinyl Storage

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#108 IKEA Skådis And Some Spraypaint

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#109 Made A Skinny Laundry Sorter In Our Closet Using A Kallax Shelf As The ‘Island’. We Left The Divider Shelves Out Of 3 Sections And Put 11 Gallon Filur Bins (1 Each For Regular Laundry, Hand Wash, And Dry Cleaning). The End Section Stores Detergent And Clothing Care Items, As Well As Reusable Bags)

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#110 Just Moved Into A New Place And Needed A New Desk For My New Home Office. This Setup Was $185 Well Spent!

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