It's a rare home that doesn't have a little IKEA in it. Hacking IKEA furniture has become a sport for design-loving nuts such as ourselves. There's no shortage of creativity and ingenuity but we also like to see the simple hacks that give a lot of bang for the buck. If you haven't yet heard of O'verlays, jump below and take a look at what they can do.
Carol of The Design Pages transformed this very plain Trondheim dresser using the magic of lightweight, fretwork panels and paint. It's an easy way to add some luxe to IKEA pieces. O'verlays has created an entire line of designs to choose from. Check out their website for photos. For details and photos of how Carol pulled off this dramatic Before and After, run over to her blog The Design Pages.
More Info:
• O'verlays
• Dresser Transformation on The Design Pages
(Images: The Design Pages)
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now here's an 'after' I really dig!
(and no vintage mid century modern furniture was harmed or destroyed.)
Too true NYCGREENMOMMA! I love this!
Just great. This is why i love AT - super ideas with helpful links to dream by! But how will i ever get to them all?
I really like both the before and the after, though I think I'm leaning more towards the before but the after is wonderful. I have to echo the first commenter because I'm just thrilled something of historical value was not destroyed...for a change. This is how furniture makeovers should be done!
This is stylish, but the overlays are $20 a piece. That's an extra $80 on a small, cheap Ikea piece. That's not a critique of the creators, rather a dilemma for me. Would I want to do it?
"It's a rare home that doesn't have a little IKEA in it." This made me laugh out loud. A couple of years ago, an IKEA opened about 90 minutes from here; before that, the nearest one was a seven-hour drive away. I wouldn't be surprised if I have never set foot in a home with any IKEA in it. My partner and I just bought a new house, so we drove up to look (mainly at lighting). Spent three hours there but didn't buy anything but a meatball lunch. People in the non-flyover states really live in a bubble.
Wait. If the company wants to include an apostrophe in their name, they should call it O'erlays. O'verlays doesn't make any sense!
Bee for Brian: That's funny, just this afternoon I've had a conversation about the fact that there weren't as many IKEAs in the US than in Europe - we have 2 in Hamburg already, and they are building one within walking distance from my place now.
I love @care_bear
I love this. Such a simple way to update IKEA pieces.
I do wish, however, that people would give up on the "omg you ruined a MCM thing". People have been changing, damaging, destroying and throwing away vintage furniture long before AT.
@HINMELB - Agree.. I mean, as long as something has new life and it works in your home, I don't see the problem. Que sera. Clearly if there is enough MCM out there being ruined by paint, causing apartment therapy posters to catch the vapors, maybe it's not as special and vintage as you think.
Not everything old is of "historical value." Sometimes, old and ugly is just old and ugly. And ugly needs to be wiped out where ever it occurs.... This makeover, however, is pretty and pretty sweet.
I love me my bubble.