Take this clean and serene room scheme for example. However, with a lick of paint, clever stencilling or stickering with decals, it can be transformed into quite the work of art. Part of the IKEA product portfolio for more than 50 years, in its virgin state, itвЂ™s a perfectly practical anodyne cupboard starting at a mere ВЈ45. To this end, weвЂ™ve put together a selection of some of our favourite IKEA hacks for kids bedrooms to help provide some inspiration and ideas for your next project.ДЇirst up is the trusty IVAR pine cabinet. IвЂ™m also putting my money on the fact that you have neither the time, nor inclination, to wade through 54.7 million results. Now IвЂ™m guessing that if youвЂ™re reading this thereвЂ™s a high chance you have children or at least a passing interest in interior design for kids bedrooms. ThereвЂ™s even a dedicated website devoted to all things IKEA hacks Just make sure you come back to finish reading this post (typed on top of my Bekant desk). Type IKEA hacks into your search bar and see what happens. As we say in our house, вЂњgive it to the GoogleвЂќ.

ThereвЂ™s no better way to understand this than to run a cursory Google check. But this time around thereвЂ™s something distinctly different about the functional furniture brand. It was cost-effective, easy to collect and dowel-disaster notwithstanding, pretty easy to put together.ДЇast forward to the age of Insta, a swathe of savvy mamaвЂ™s and papaвЂ™s home-schooled in interior design, and a lust for Nordic style and youвЂ™ll find IKEA is very much Г la mode. YouвЂ™ve probably experienced this feeling, if like me, youвЂ™re a 70вЂ™s kid and went to university, or bought your first home and were on first name terms with Billy (the bookcase) and Expedit (replaced by the now slenderer Kallax). MDF misery lessened only by the promise of a dirty hot dog or meatballs and lingonberry sauce once youвЂ™d survived the queues akin to a New YearвЂ™s Day sale atвЂ¦er, IKEA. I mean, they even have a coffee table called LACK. Flatpack frustration and a minimalism that looked identical whoever's house it inhabited. After the excitement of its initial UK launch in 1987, it all became a bit samey, samey birch and beech boredom.

Image credit: upon a time kitting your house out in IKEA equalled vanilla.

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