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Furniture hacks: the essential roundup of products to hack your IKEA pieces

July 13, 2020 1 Comment

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Who doesn’t love IKEA’s budget-friendly, simple, timeless designs? But sometimes you’d like your piece to look a little less mainstream. Well, we have some great news! There are plenty of brands in Australia (and shipping here from overseas), who offer clever accessories to hack your IKEA favourite into something truly unique and much more expensive-looking.

An IKEA Besta unit hacked by @saltyinteriors with Pretty Pegs’ brass knobs and Elsie adjustable legs

From doors, drawer fronts and sofa slip covers, to decorative panels, legs and handles, we’ve done the legwork and rounded them all up for you here. Some are designed purely for IKEA products and others can be used to customise different furniture too.

An IKEA Sรถderhamn sofa with Bemz covers and replacement legs, by Coco Lapine Design

Ren Studio

Based in Brisbane, Ren Studio make affordable doors and drawer fronts for IKEA’s Metod, Pax and Besta collections. They also offer a range of cover panels that can be used to create custom kitchen islands and bulkheads.

There’s a choice of four finishes (plywood, supermatte, renwood and customcoat) with a large range of colour choices as well as four door profiles that accommodate both modern and classic styles.

Cover panels and plinths using the Dot door profile on an IKEA Metod kitchen

Their lead time is around six weeks.

Timbermill

Timbermill is a Sydney timber furniture company founded in 2013. They recently launched a new sub brand doors&drawers, offering hand-crafted solid timber fronts for IKEA Metod cabinets and drawers, at a fraction of the price of a 100% solid timber kitchen. They’re even offering our readers 15% off until the end of July 2020 with the code interiorsaddict.

Timber fronts in the Recycled Harwood finish on IKEA’s Metod

You might want just your upper cabinets to have timber fronts, or for just your cover panels to be timber. Lead time is around four-to-six weeks and they’re currently only delivering to NSW.

A combination of doors&drawers’ Birch Plywood and IKEA White

Superfront

Based in Stockholm, Superfront have some of the coolest IKEA-specific products we’ve seen. Sadly they only ship their handles and legs to Australia (not their fronts, sides and tops), but the website is a great place for inspiration nonetheless.

Captains Grannie Pink/Copper Legs

And they do have one of the best selections of IKEA-specific replacement legs; definitely worth the import!

Golden/Super White sideboards with Mini Balls handles and Big Balls legs on IKEA Besta
Illusion sideboards, Wire handles and Slender High legs on IKEA Besta

Legheads

Legheads is an Australian company with a small but colourful and affordable range of replacement legs for IKEA and other furniture.

Pretty Pegs

A Swedish company that ships worldwide, Pretty Pegs offer a large range of stylish legs, knobs and self-adhesive fronts to add extra va-va-voom to the bestselling IKEA Besta range.

Their front covers are super thin, self-adhesive wooden layers that you stick onto your existing IKEA Besta doors, without the need to actually replace them.

Bemz

Bemz is a Swedish company shipping worldwide, creating custom slipcovers for IKEA couches using high-end fabrics as well as a range of furniture legs, allowing you to transform your sofa beyond recognition!

IKEA Kivik sofa in a teal velvet cover

Whether you want to take a basic new IKEA piece next level, or give an old and tired one a new lease of life, this is an excellent solution.

IKEA Sรถderhamn sofa in a loose-fit linen cover

Machine washable and sewn to order with a three-year guarantee, Bemz produce covers for a huge range of IKEA sofas, armchairs and bed frames, with countless styles, fabrics and colours to choose from. Prices start from under $200 for a two-seater sofa cover. There’s even free shipping on orders over $150.

IKEA Stocksund sofa in a navy velvet cover

Their range of replacement legs starts at $9 each.

A BEMZ Kastell leg

Comfort Works

Comfort Works is an Australian company that custom makes slipcovers by hand for sofas and armchairs from various furniture brands. Expect to pay from around $300 for a two-seater sofa cover.

A Comfort Works Urban slip cover on an IKEA Stocksund sofa

They also make covers for Pottery Barn sofas and can even do made-to-measure.

Personalised and functional, their slipcovers even provide the option of adding a built-in USB port and wireless charger that can transform your sofa into a charging station.

Comfort Works have the option to turn your sofa into a phone charging station!

They ship free worldwide and have made it their personal mission to continuously upcycle and not waste in their design process.

A Comfort Works cover on an ย IKEA Brathult sofa

Lux Hax

Australian designed and made, Lux Hax creates overlay panels that perfectly fit and customise popular flatpack pieces from IKEA, including the Hemnes, Besta, Malm and Kallax ranges.

Our contributor Kathryn Bamford transformed her IKEA Malm bedsides with Lux Hax stick-on panels and some fancy new handles

Lux Hax’s Styl-Panels are as simple as it gets: easy peel-and-stick panels that can give you numerous, unique combinations when paired with new handles and/or legs. They also sell a variety of handles as well as overlays to hack Kmart’s popular $40 Arch Mirror.

House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo’s rattan webbing sheet is a great furniture hacking solution. We love this recent DIY project from Adore Home Magazine editor Loni Parker, who used the sheets with an IKEA Ivar cabinet painted white.

Some places to buy replacement handles, knobs and hooks online

LO&CO

LO&CO is a design-conscious Australian brand that creates beautiful, architectural hardware.

T-Plate Pull handles in Brass

Hepburn Hardware

Hepburn Hardware aim to design and provide Australian-made hardware that is both high in quality and different from what’s on the market.

Halifax Hooded Cup Pull in Burnished Brass and Bronte Knob in Burnished Brass

igrab

Igrab.com.au is a Sydney-based online handles and knobs store established in 2012, designed for those who are looking for handles and knobs for their homes or a renovation option.

Contemporary Kitchen handles in Matt Black
Reader Janika Dias from Mood Collective hacked her IKEA Pax wardrobes (Grimo door) with brass-look pulls from igrab

The Block Shop

The Block Shop has a great range of hooks and handles for furniture and walls!

We hope this roundup has inspired you and we’d love you to tell us about any other suppliers we might have missed!

‘IKEA hacking’ is something of a global movement and you can find so many examples online. In particular, we’ve been inspired by lots of examples of people hacking IKEA’s Billy bookcases to look like expensive built-in cabinetry.

Click to see how A Beautiful Mess created this with IKEA Billy bookcases
Click for a Billy bookcase ‘built-in’ how-to from 11 Magnolia Lane

If you have an IKEA hack you’re proud of, we’d love to see it!

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Christine Tang is a third year student at the University of New South Wales, studying Media and Design. She is interning at Interiors Addict as part of her degree.

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  1. AvatarPenny White says

    July 15, 2020 at 7:24 am

    This is the best article EVVVVVVERRRRRRR guys and loved seeing my mate Kylie up there with her @Luxhax product. Love yer work xxx

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