This is a simple ''IKEA Hack'' for a chic and super glam vanity ....

What You'll Need:

• IKEA EKBY Alex Shelf with drawers
• Wood Table Lege (27.5'') Tapered
• 6''x8'' Shelf Brackets
• Cherry oil wood stain
• Table Leg straight top plate

Instructions

1. Spray paint the shelf brackets white with a paint and primer
2. Stain the tapered legs with a cherry wood stain
3. Assemble the Alex Shelf
4. Using wall anchors (50lb anchors were used for this project) secure the shelf brackets to the wall
5. Secure the Alex shelf to the brackets
6. Attach the straight top plates to the Alex shelf
7. Screw the tapered legs to the plates

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Ann Le had this plain old desk from IKEA for the past four years and it really needed a makeover. Using some simple and easy techniques and DIYs, she transformed it from a basic boring desk into something that's really eye-catching. She also shows us a few different and easy DIYs that we can quickly do to both organize a desk and give it some personality ....

If you're interested in an occasional table for your bed so your won't have to get up once you're all tucked in, look no further. We bring you an easy, quick but most of all, cheap tutorial so you can do it yourself ....

Supplies Used

• 1 - 2x12x12 Top Choice board (if possible, ask the employees to cut this to the exact measurements you need so you won't have to do any cutting)
• 4 - 2'' Ridgid Locking Casters (wheels that only move backwards and forwards and don't swivel, so your table won't move in different directions)
• 1 box of wood screws 8 x 1 1/2
• Sandpaper

Directions for Double/Full Sized Bed

Get your local hardware store to cut 2 pieces at 29 1/2 inches and one piece at 60 inches. (If you are attempting to make this for a different size bed, you would add an extra 3 to 3.5 inches on each side of the bed to allow for the comforter space).

After it's cut, just screw the ''L'' brackets into place and sand it.

Screw the wheels into the bottom and voila, it's done. Now, you can paint it in color of your choice.

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Here are seven smart and cool ways to hack the IKEA Frosta Stool ....

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This IKEA hack DIY side tables will only cost you $35 each to make, and they're pretty much one of a kind ....

Materials

• IKEA expedit shelving unit
• Waddell 4in. wooden table legs
• Drill and drill bit

Simply build the IKEA shelf.

Once your shelf is assembled, choose which side you want to be the bottom, and mark where the legs should go in all four corners. Use the drill to create holes on the markings just big enough for the legs to screw into while being sung. Twist each leg in, and your're finished.

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Paint the bulk of the dresser in white in order to keep it from taking up too much visual space. Cut about 2' off of each leg and then paint the base pieces with a metallic gold spray paint. After just swap the wooden knobs for brass ones (in the ''antique brass'' finish) ....

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Without making things anymore confusing, you can also consider this an IKEA hack, so I hope you're stretched and ready for some Swedish furniture building. To make this even weirder, I actually re-purposed front door knockers to be the giant hexagon handles, so there's always that ....

Materials

• IKEA Besta shelf and coordinating white doors
• Four - 4'' Wood table legs
• Wood stain in Early American
• Foam brush
• Two - Hexagon door knockers
• 3/4 inch screw (instead of the standard screws that the knobs come with)
• Drill
• Pencil, measuring tape and ruler

First you get to honors of building your Besta shelf with doors.

Next, you can go ahead and stain the table legs with the foam brush and wood stain. Instead of leaving the stain on to soak in darker, I simply brushed on the color and then immediately wiped the excess back off with a paper towel. Leave the finished legs to dry while you build the rest.

Lay the shelf on it's backside, with the doors facing up and measure out where you want the hexagon handle to be placed. We placed ours just above center by marking 11 1/2 inches from the edge of the shelf, and 14 inches up from the bottom of the shelf.

Drill the plates that come with each knob in place, and then tighten the knob down onto the plate with the allen wrench that it comes with. We didn't install the stop that comes with knockers because we weren't using them for that purpose, but feel free to if you think it's safer for your furniture.

Screw the finished legs into the bottom of the shelf where the standard IKEA adjustable legs would go in the pre-drilled holes.

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Materials: IKEA, SKURAR, Plant pot, off-white

Description: This hack is quick, easy and cheap.

I took an IKEA Skurar plant pot, 2 of them actually... and added a (moon) push light to each one. I secured a battery operated push light to the bottom of each pot with a patch of industrial strength verlcro. ....

It was easy to hang them (upside down) as a sconce using EZ hooks, or Monkey Hooks.

Easy, inexpensive sconce lighting with no need for an electrician. Safe and easy to operate.

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IKEA's ''SVALBO'' sideboard made of pine is a DIY dream. However, unlike most IKEA furniture, this sideboard comes partially assembled with the legs and shelf brackets/supports/annoyances already put together. So while it's easy to just not put the shelf on, there are still two ugly chunks of wood to deal with.

I follow Centsational Girl's guide to painting furniture over an existing finish without sanding. The key is Zinsser Oil-base Cover Stain which bonds to pretty much anything and dries to the touch in about 30 minutes. To get the dipped look, I masked off a line about 13 inches up each leg and primed everything above that mark.

Then I asked my dad for help. I knew he'd know how to solve my bracket problems, because he knows everything. He set up a pair of saw horses and sawed the middle out of the bracket. Next, he wedged the remaining piece of wood away from the legs, exposing two shoddily glued, signature IKEA dowels.

The dowels are a little tricky to remove. You can try pulling them out and you might get lucky, or more likely, they'll split and crumble. Then, like my dad, you'll want to take a drill to them.

He drilled to remove as much of the glue and dowel remnants as possible and then switched to a countersink drill bit to get clean edge. After finishing both sets of legs, he filled the holes with Elmer's Carpenters Filler in Natural which matched the pine perfectly. It makes more sense to remove the brackets before priming, so if you tackle this project yourself, I recommend doing that first.

Next, I painted over the primer with Behr's Juicy Passionfruit latex paint. I added Floetrol to the paint, as Centsational Girl recommends, which makes paint go on more smoothly and helps minimize the appearance of brushstrokes. I left everything unassembled for the first and second coats and used a foam roller for the table top and shelf and a brush for everything else. I recommend standing between coats and using a tack cloth to clean up.

When the second coat was dry, Andy assembled the table and I added some touch up paint. Then, I applied a clear gloss water-based Minwax Polycrylic over the paint. Water-based Polycrylic dries really quickly and won't yellow over time.

And here it is, all finished and styled up fancy in the entryway. The table and supplies together cost me less than $120.00 and absolutely no heartbreak.

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A step by step tutorial on how to turn the IKEA ''TARVA'' 3 drawer chest into a faux-vintage apothecary cabinet ....

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Today I'm bringing you an easy side table makeover as an updated to an old IKEA table that belonged to my sister at one point. Nobody wanted it anymore so I gladly took it, knowing that I could find a way to make it beautiful! I don't think they make this type of table anymore at IKEA - we've had it for years and I couldn't find a replica on their website, but this kind of makeover could be done with any sort of table with a smooth, clean top ....

I started off by wiping everything down with a clorox wipe as it was pretty dirty and buffing it dry with a paper towel. I unscrewed the legs from the table top and set them aside - as you can tell, the dis-assembly process is pretty easy and straightforward.

I wanted to have a fun pattern on my boring white table top so I relied on some trusty decorative masking tape to lay out a design.

I eyeballed the distance between the tape lines and made the angles as close to 90 degrees that I could. It's not exactly perfect, but it's pretty darn close unless you examine it extremely closely. When I finished I had a nice beautiful pattern all ready to go.

After making sure all the edges were pressed down securely, I gave the table top a coat of shiny Krylon gold metallic spray paint.

While the table top was drying, I took the legs, and sanded them down using a fine grit sandpaper, and wiped clean with microfiber rag. I then took some Rustoleum Early American Woodstain and gave the legs a light coat using a rag.

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The lovely and talented Caitlin emailed to say she was inspired by this old post and took a sharpie to her IKEA slipcovers.

Talk about bang for your buck! And I'm really liking the more open pattern she went with here. It's a little more subtle (also much easier to pull off!).

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