Ikea Modification for Cheap & Trendy Home Decor
Ikea furniture hacking or modification makes achieving custom designer home decor simpler and cheaper.
No matter their budget, every homeowner desires pleasing home decor to suit their taste and lifestyle. With its budget-conscious, modern design, Ikea’s affordable furniture draws DIY homeowner’s and interior designers’ attention.
With some handy basic skills and a little imagination, you can have the designer home decor you’ve dreamed of.
Simple, Component-Based Assembly
Now, you can be your master carpenter! Ikea offers easily assembled furniture with a minimum of specialized tools or building knowledge.
With most furniture being compiled of component pieces, this simplicity inspires customization. You can use the item as intended or break it down and repurpose-purpose the individual pieces to fit a unique aspect of your home. Or you can use items in ways they were never intended for.
Shelves can be compiled into headboards or wardrobes and bookcases broken down to coffee tables and hidden storage. Leftover glass shelves become kitchen backsplashes. You are limited only by your imagination.
A Variety of Options
Ikea offers furniture in everything from raw wood, perfect for painting or staining to your preference, to various wood finishes and colorful lacquers. The simplicity of the majority of the designs is clean and modern and invites adding your flair. Even lacquered and varnished pieces can be sanded to a blank canvas and painted in any shade or design elements added with glue, foil, or nails, so your artistic expression can shine.
Additionally, Ikea offers compact, trim space furniture options. Furniture with hidden storage or converting functions like chair beds or sleeper sofas makes them more versatile for hackers.
Budget Conscious Furniture
Due to its storefront warehouse design, limited to large commercial centers, and the expectation that buyers do the assembly, Ikea can keep costs down. The brand offers a wide range of cheap and cheaply-made items and better quality furniture options like leather or mohair finishing. While more costly than more affordable options in the store, they are often bargain-priced next to comparable competitor pieces.
Ikea and other mass-market furniture retailers make it increasingly easy to customize furniture to suit your needs without a significant investment or handyman skills. From upholstering, painting, or dismantling, furniture hacks can be straightforward and make your space uniquely suited to your budget and taste.