Hemnes bookcase

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…

So after thinking it over, I realized Ikea HEMNES cabinets were the perfect solution to our problem! We hacked a HEMNES Custom Built-in Storage Unit

Welcome to the 677th Metamorphosis Monday! Hope you had an awesome weekend! We had a mini-snow storm on Sunday. It was short-lived but pretty while it was coming down. Did you see any snow in your area over the weekend? In a previous post a few months back, I mentioned the bowing issue I was having with the Ikea Billy bookshelves in my home office. Two lovely BNOTP readers suggested I look into the Ikea Hemnes bookcase which is made of solid wood. That was right around the time I was turning…

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.

I had two dark brownish black Ikea bookcases but they didn't look right in my recently purchased mobile home. Florida needs a brighter look even though I'm not…

I’m in the middle of giving my home office a makeover, and one of my biggest priorities for the room has been to add some built-in storage. It’s important to note that our home office sits at the front of our house and is basically the first room you see after entering the foyer. Thus everything in it is very visible… including the messy bookshelves that we had going on in there... BEFORE Our office also needs to be a very functional room for us. We store a lot of things in there and use the…

HEMNES living room series - IKEA

HEMNES living room series

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...