Hemnes built in

Would you love built-in cabinetry in your living room but balk at the cost? Well, you know we love an…

Materials: HEMNES bookcase, STORNAS buffet

We wanted a built-in entertainment center / wall unit in our basement that we were finishing. We looked into custom cabinetry but it was way out of our budget. We came across examples of others using HEMNES cabinets as a starting point and loved the idea.

We’ve hacked IKEA, and we are loving the results…so far. This is part 1 of how we did it! For this project, we used the Hemnes furniture line from IKEA, again. This time we used two Hemnes glass door cabinets with four drawers. Simple and plain…just my style. We love working with this line of furniture because it is solid wood. It’s not particle board foiled over with plastic and paints beautifully! (We don’t prime this stuff, just usually give it one coat of our trim paint; Sherwin Williams…

This IKEA furniture idea will give you so much more storage—and it’s been pinned 78 THOUSAND times on Pinterest!- This might be the coolest thing you'll see all day! When renovating my basement I knew I wanted a wall of built ins.

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We wanted an entire wall of bookshelves for our office in our new house and wanted them to look like “built-ins”. As it turned out, four Hemnes units (two open shelves, two cabinets with glass doors) were exactly the length of the wall minus about 4 inches. We figured we could make up the rest with filler and trim.

How I used IKEA Billy Bookcases for dining room built-ins.

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Cabinet built iun made with two ikea HEMNES Glass-door cabinets with 4 drawers, white, molding and replaced hardware. There seem to be lots of ways to make built ins affordably. I would love to turn a wall of bookshelves into similar great storage.