Whether you’re furnishing your first apartment or your dream home,IKEA furnitureoffers many attractive benefits.

IKEA furniture is also great forsmall spacesand fairly simple to assemble.

Looking for inspiration or ready to upgrade theIKEA piecesalready in your collection?

Billy bookcase with tiled fireplace

Design byLife After Coffee/ Photo by Jessica Bowen

Check out these 15 IKEA living room ideas.

The geometric details and off-white color is chic and modern.

Swap out the legs for a one-of-a-kind design.

white library with Billy bookcase

Kaari Sommer

Hang unique art, plants, or a mirror above for a vignette.

Paint It Black

Craftifair

Another Ivar hack?

Pair two, paint them black, and top with plywood for a winning and easy combo.

living room IKEA besta

Design byVelinda Hellen/ Photo bySara Tramp

Now DIYed, these cabinets match with the modern,neutral look of this living room.

Add Leather Pulls

Nouw

Modify your IKEA Ivar cabinets with something more stylish.

This four-door storage system looks refreshed thanks to purple paint an leather pulls.

Tarva dresser

House Homemade

Ready to test out a weekend project?

Try adding fluted doors for texture and a customized look.

Easily stitch and add buttons to get the vintage-inspired couch of your dreams on a budget.

Besta living room storage

ATX Interior Design/Madeline Harper Photography

Elevate Your Storage

Alyssa Depew

DIY blogger Alyssa Depew went for anIKEA Kallax unitfor living storage.

Paint for Cohesion

@magical_manor/ Instagram

These Billy bookcases come alive with a coat ofblue-green paint.

ensure to paint behind the bookcases for a cohesive living space.

black Shaker IKEA media cabinet

Design byAlbie K. Buabeng/ Photo byEllie Lilistrom

Another tip to verify it looks put together?

Pick one key in of item to display.

Implement Colorblocking

Eleven Magnolia Lane

This IKEA hack is too good to pass up.

painted IKEA Ivar

The Wall Whisper

Purchase some Billy bookcases and DIY a top and bottom for them.

This quick project can easily be done in one day.

Ikea Ivar

Craftifair

purple painted Ivar storage

Nouw

fluted Billy bookcase

Alice & Lois

DIY tufted IKEA couch

Design byMy So-Called Handmade Life

DIY greenhouse with IKEA cabinet

@room_kew/ Instagram

Kallax bookshelf

Alyssa Depew

blue-green Billy bookcase

@magical_manor/ Instagram

sage living room with Billy bookcase

A Beautiful Mess

white Billy bookcase

Eleven Magnolia Lane