Take a look at these creative IKEA BILLY Hacks which can add style to your home. Learn how the masters make a boring boxy house look like a 19th-century charmer. With a little effort you can also make that pre-fabricated IKEA bookcase look like it was custom-built especially for your ho...
We used this pantry for 4 years until we moved into a new house that had a built-in pantry already. The IKEA Billy Bookcase worked perfectly as a pantry for us for those 4 years. Over the years I rearranged it and changed the heights of the shelves several times to adapt it to our ...
The part that makes the IKEA BILLY bookcase look custom is the trim work so we added crown molding to the top. In order to add the crown, you’ll need an extra piece of wood to the top of the DIY built in shelves to have something to attach the crown moulding to. In order to do...
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Laura wanted the bookcase to look like it had always been there and have that “built-in” appearance so we had the challenge of matching the existing base board and crown molding. The crown molding wasn’t too hard to find a replica. As for the baseboard, in order to replicate it we...
IKEA Billy Bookcase Lighting Idea IKEA used to sell lights for Billy bookcases. I have one on each of mine. They add the perfect mood light at night. This is a view of the lights from the side – from the front you hardly notice the fixture. I checked the IKEA website, but they ...
A couple of weeks ago I posted the reveal of our Billy IKEA HackOffice Makeover revealand prior to that I posted Part 1 –getting a built-in library home office look using the billy bookcase. This is part 2 and today I’m sharing with you everything you need to get that built-in ...
FYI–You can also get some IKEA items on Amazon to make life easier, Amazon also carries a generic bookcase here (just be sure to check and adjust the measurements). This is the shelf we used (four of them) in case you aren’t familiar with them. If you don’t live near an IKEA...
Feeling overwhelmed with a crammed and cluttered pantry? You aren’t alone. Thankfully, there’s an easy, affordable solution with my Ikea pantry hack…using a Billy bookcase in the kitchen! While I certainly have used the Billy bookcase for holding books, I had a lightbulb moment one day ...
How to make IKEA BILLY BOOKCASE built-ins…that’s what I am going to share with you all today. Phew! This project required a little more time and planning than what I thought it would take. Plus I needed some extra glasses of mimosas as well along the way from start to finish. But...