Inspiration: Reading Nook with Ikea Spice Rack Shelving & Fabric Clouds

Last week we featured some book shelves made with Ikea spice racks and here is another inspiring use of them where they’ve been decorated with Japanese washi tape (try Papermash and Present&Correct – be careful, they’re dangerous shops of temptation) on the borders. What we’re also loving is the hanging fabric clouds which look like [...]

Inspiration: Repurpose Ikea Spice Racks Into Book Shelving

We’ve been on roll this week with Ikea hacks (see our posts on a bunting shade and a car garage made from their magnetic knife rack) and the latest find is book shelving made from their spice racks. All over this simple hack like a rash and you can always liven them up with a [...]

Inspiration: Repurpose Ikea’s Magnetic Knife Rack into Toy Car Storage

If like quite a few people I know, you’ve been buying old metal Matchbox cars from charity shops and on eBay etc for your vroom vroom loving little one, you’ll love this rather cool repurposing of Ikea’s magnetic knife rack (£7.14) into a parking garage that also doubles up as winning decor. Source The Style [...]

Decor Idea: Customising drawers with Famille Summerbelle ribbon tape

I’m about to embark on a customising project with the two white chests of drawers in the babies room. The plan is to use some spare wallpaper from Mini Moderns on the larger chest of drawers but I’m going to hold off on the smaller chest of drawers to experiment with different ideas for a [...]

Style your Ikea sofa with Marimekko Slipcovers by Bemz

I know a lot of parents that own Ikea sofas and armchairs, with them turning up in baby nurseries as well as playrooms, nevermind in living rooms. They don’t have the most exciting coverings so style fiends will be very excited to know that Finnish design house Marimekko has designed a collection of 11 slipcovers [...]

Great Ikea Hack: Make your own magnetic storage board Uten Silo style

I’m a big fan of the Uten Silo wall organiser (left, and featured on Nest Goodies a while back) which is a design classic from 1969/1970 designed by Dorothee Becker produced by the Vitra Design Museum, but it’s a crying shame that it’s £164! Over at the very cool Minor Details blog, Jennifer has come [...]

Great Ikea Hack: Build your own pretend play kitchen from Vika Furusund

   I was so impressed with this mum’s first try at ‘hacking’ an Ikea product and creating a whole new design that I had to feature it. Can you believe that the pretend play kitchen pictured above started out as Ikea’s Vika Furusund (£21.53), pictured on the left? Now it’s not the simplest of projects [...]