Turn your studio apartment into a 1 bedroom with PAX. Materials: PAX Description: My girlfriend and I bought and moved into our first apartment, with a tight budget we couldn't afford anything bigger then a studio apartment. I can't imagine anyone wanting to have their bed in their living room, so we started to brainstorm. We discussed ever type of foldaway bed and room divider. Then we found IKEA's PAX sliding cupboard doors. We bought the biggest we could find in light aluminum and frosted glass. We measured the size of our Ikea beds and marked off the new room so it would fit our bed and some clothing space tightly in order to save as much space in the living room as possible. I whipped up 2 wooden frames and mounted them to the ceiling, walls and floor.
I installed four IKEA LED (color changing) spots in the frame so it would light up the frosted glass. We finished up our new bedroom with some LACK shelves and a little art work. This was my first ever renovation at the age of 22, by myself. . ~ thedesignguy Update: 25 Oct 2010. Billy bookcases as room dividers. Bedroom Published on March 20th, 2009 | by Jules IKEAHacker This is Lily’s very first Ikea hack and it’s a nice one.
Clever use of Billy bookcases to section out a ‘sleeping area’ and create storage. Definitely a snuggle-worthy corner. She says, “I’m renting this large one space studio but didn’t like the idea of having my bed in the living room as well as in the kitchen so I came up with the idea of a room divider. The next Billy is placed reversed so that I can use it as a night table at the head of my bed.
The 3 bookcases facing the living room serve as all kinds of storage. For the sleeping corner on the other side, the backs of the Billy’s are simply covered with some leftover paint, with colors matching my favorite bed linen. You may also be interested in:- Another Billy pantry - Billy finds new purpose as a pantry- Stark hall unit as a room divider - Room dividers for your bedroom- And this is how you divide a loft - Buffalo Bill wardrobe and room divider The Author.
Loft bed frame and elevated laptop stand. Materials: MALM and Magasin Description: Here are two of my Ikea hacks.
The first is a bed frame I made… I recently moved from a house into a small apartment, and needed somewhere to store all of my things, but still wanted a clean, clutter-free look. Ikea had the answer. I simply found a chest of drawers that I liked from Ikea, and bought four of them – the MALM 3 drawer chest. The frame wasn’t hard to build:I measured a queen sized mattress, and cut large pieces of lumber to fit around that. My second hack is a laptop stand… This hack is extremely easy. , and voila!! I can also remove the laptop stand from the wall completely if I wish, or fold it up completely. See more photos here. ~ Angie Andrade, Stillwater, OK.