IKEA hacks. Who doesn't love them? You take an IKEA piece - simple, reliable, maybe a little bland - and you spice it up to give it some new life or transform it to meet your new furniture needs. In our case, we did a little of both. The best part of these projects is that they're a fun, easy, and cheap way to create your dream furniture all on your own! All you need is some spray paint, tape, a sheet to paint over, and a nice spot of grass on a sunny day - plus your IKEA piece. :)
We had a little bookshelf, and we needed a media center for the the new office/den. How do you get from point A to point B? Lay the bookshelf on its side and voila - media center with storage units! Now for the fun part: aesthetics. Our bookshelf was just a little too plain for the new room. It desperately needed some color.
So that's what we gave the little guy.
Teri decided on a black exterior with a creamy white on the interior - all matte. For this project, we needed three cans of the white paint and one of the black. Here's the spray paint we picked up from Home Depot:
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| Rust-Oleum Chiffon Cream Ultra Matte Interior Chalked Spray Paint |
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| Rust-Oleum Painter's Touch 2X Flat Black Spray Paint |
First, we took out the shelves and placeholders and cleaned out the inside. Then we spray painted the three sides and the front trim of the case and shelves black. After the black dried, we taped down the all the front trims so we could paint the interior white.
As you can see in the above picture, our first coat of the white came out super splotchy.
Next was the shelves:
And that was it! Turns out the white just needed multiple coats and drying time for the splotches to disappear. Here's the finished product:
What do you guys think? Are you ready to transform your old IKEA furniture into your new favorite piece?!
Love,
Sydney