5 IKEA Hacks We're Taking From 2023 Into the New Year

We love a good IKEA hack, and 2023 brought us some of the most inventive, fun, and beautiful IKEA DIYs we’ve seen yet.

IKEA hacks are such a cost-effective and accessible way for DIY fans and home designers to personalize and elevate their living spaces by taking off-the-shelf IKEA products and transforming them into unique, customized pieces with just a bit of paint and a lot of creativity.

Plus, since you’re already putting the IKEA furniture together, you might as well have some fun with it.

Here are some of our favorite IKEA hacks, refurbishments, and paint jobs from 2023 that took over our social media accounts—and homes.

TikTok creator and DIY aficionado The Flipped Piece turned shoe cabinets into her dream custom storage. With nearly 700,000 likes, this DIY takes a bit of work, but it is worth it.

Kate Hewitt from @our_bears_home on Instagram did the BILLY bookcase DIY we all know and love—taking the classic bookcases and making them look built-in.

This DIY takes a bit of drilling and a bit of sawing, but it comes out pretty perfect if you do it right.

Other creators have done something similar but added a curved edge to the top—you can really make this DIY yours.

You can build a corner table for your kiddos to paint, play, and create pretty easily, as Babsi S. of @kreativbabs shows on her Instagram post. All you need is two KALLAX shelves, two properly-sized pieces of wood, and a drill.

All you need for this DIY is one bamboo OSTBIT plate holder from IKEA. At just $4, this is probably the least expensive and easiest DIY we’ve seen all year.

This hack is so popular that even IKEA Belgium postsabout it on Instagram.

Tay BeepBoop, a creator of all things maximalist DIY, bought one IKEA IVAR cabinet into a