If you’ve read any of my other Ikea Hack posts, you’ll know that I love Ikea products (or perhaps a bit Ikea obsessed?!). Ikea is the perfect place to get ideas and to buy inexpensive items that will help you get your home more organized and tidy.

Organizing your home with doesn’t have to be expensive. I think this is going to be a very simple build but before I embark on a visit to Ikea to pick up the supplies, I just wanted to leave it here incase anyone had any suggestions or thoughts.Learn these cheap Ikea organization hacks to get your home more organized If I'm more adventurous, I'll buy some supplies and paint to match or repaint the whole table once finished.

Worst case, I'll buy a second table and recycle the top so that it all matches. Best case scenario, I'll find some scraps of the table in the handyman corner at the store that I can cut up to make the outside panels of the draws. I want to keep as significant a gap as possible between the lowest draw and the magazine rack at the bottom of the table. My plan is to build two draws that are approximately two inches deep and position them below the table top so as to maintain as much as possible of the overall design of the table. The rack under the table could accommodate a print of approximately 38x26 so from a sizing perspective, this is a near perfect base with which to work with. That compares favourably with some of the nicer coffee table files I've found available online which are often in excess of $1000 before shipping. As a result, it's a bit pricier than some other like examples from the same store but hell, it's still only 150bucks. It's available in 3 colours including a white stain which works for me. I opted for this because despite the fact that it's from Ikea, it's actually a really nice table that's built from solid wood (not the usual MDF) The design is sort of a blend between contemporary and traditional so I think it'll work in most spaces should the time come that I move. It's been really difficult to find a table/file thats the appropriate size for 24x36 prints, especially at a reasonable price.Īfter a bit of research, I think I've decided to get the Hemnes Coffee table from Ikea and use this as a base for a new build. Currently, I keep all of my unframed posters between 2 pieces of cardboard in a spare bedroom. I need a new coffee table for my basement TV room and figured it would be good to kill 2 birds with one stone and get a coffee table with some flat file draws.

Ikea flat file hack