Living room furniture made from kitchen cabinets
You've searched high and low but to no avail: everything is too big, too small, too much wood, not sturdy enough, not stylish enough... No piece of furniture makes the cut. A vintage sideboard? The idea has crossed your mind, but you were looking for a piece to blend in with the rest of your interior. Custom-made? It ticks all the boxes, but the budget doesn't check out. Two words: Ikea hack. We take the Metod cabinets out of the kitchen and give them a new life in the living room. Arranged as a bookcase, bench or sideboard, simply dress them up with lacquer or wood fronts to create clever storage in your living room. The icing on the cake is that you'll never find a piece the same elsewhere!
Oak veneer for a warm living room
Lonely alcove seeks custom-made sideboard
Sideboard + shelf = ultra-stylish bookcase
4 metres wide, 3 metres high. Anyone that has ever received a quote to install a custom-made bookcase in their living room knows: the total can be a little shocking! But don't give up on your books, knick-knacks and works of art yet, all it takes is a few cabinets and a little creativity... Start by installing several low 80 cm modules, mounted on legs to compensate for variations in the floor. Add coloured fronts, such as our luminous Red 01 - Terra, a matching plinth, and cover panel in the same shade to hide the top of the cabinets. Top it all off with a simple, graphic shelf, placed one metre above your sideboard, and you're left with a stylish bookcase that doesn't break the bank.
Weightlessness
Who said living room furniture has to have legs? Metod modules, originally designed as overhead kitchens cabinets, can be adapted in a variety of ways. Suspended by a rail fixed to the wall, they become a compact and unique piece of furniture that blends into any living room. The black fronts & walnut cover panels give a masculine touch, which we can already imagine creating in different colour palettes. Over to you to create your own personalised piece!
Like a sideboard
The sideboard: too often associated with chunky wooden antique pieces found in our grandparents' homes. However, it's not only confined to Louis XVI or Napoleon versions, or the Norman-style. Dust it off and dress it up in matte lacquer to add a contemporary touch to your living room. Made from kitchen cabinets, you can opt for either doors and drawers, making it ultra-practical. Add cover panels to hide the top of the cabinets, and wall mouldings to add character to this all-purpose layout which is perfect for hiding those documents or bits and bobs lying around.
