The GREJIG wire shoe rack was always just … there. Doing its job quietly. Now IKEA has built a whole system around it. The IKEA GREJIG shoe rack has never been a headline product. It’s a single-tier wire rack that holds your shoes and costs $4.99. It works. It doesn’t ask for much. Most people who own one barely remember buying it. Which makes what IKEA has just done with the...

You never know when or where inspiration will strike. And if you’ve got a creative spirit, the odds are good that you can find a project pretty much anywhere.  Self-taught sewing artist Bolly took one look at IKEA’s popular FRAKTA and just had to turn it into a funky handbag. I mean, why not? This wouldn’t be the first time we’ve seen the FRAKTA reimagined into a quirky ...

Sometimes the best projects come about by accident. That was the case for Aeschinoer, who stumbled upon this clever backlit mirror idea while working on a completely different IKEA hack — a project called “back-lit lunar landscape.” One idea led to another, and the result is a wall-mounted mirror with soft, flattering backlighting that the whole family has come to love. The b...

Nowadays, the closest my hubby and I get to dinner and a show is kicking back on the sofa with takeout. Turns out, we’re not alone. A recent IKEA study just affirmed our tendency for couch dining, finding that 1 in 5 people enjoy dinner on the sofa. We still eat dinner as a family, around an actual dining table, at least once a week. And I’ll sometimes opt to stay in the kitc...

Andreas Larsen wanted a way to bring his bike repair setup to festivals, markets, and events around town without spending a small fortune to do it. Traditional event cargo bikes and culture carts? They were clocking in at several times more than he wanted to spend. So he designed his own, built it from off-the-shelf components, and made the whole thing open source so anyone c...