You can buy a lot of good furniture, but with a few hacks you can make it great. Take a little time this weekend to create an awesome arcade console coffee table, minimal floating desk, or one of many awesome DIY furniture upgrades you can perform on the cheap.



Some of the best furniture hacks happen in your (home) office, whether they're just practical or a lot of fun. If you have a small space, one of the coolest ways to use the little area you have is to create a floating desk. You can easily accomplish by installing an IKEA laptop desk onto your wall. Wall-mounted workspaces allow you flexibility of placement (at least initially) so you can create a sitting or standing desk—whichever you prefer.

If you just want to build a standard standing desk however, there are several ways to do it. One of our favorites is a hacked IKEA desk that uses height-adjustable legs. Not only can you adjust the standing height to suit you, but if you ever feel like going back to a sitting desk temporarily or indefinitely you can. If you're just in the mood for a standard but creative desk on the cheap, just make one out of a door.

Living Room


Let's not waste any time and get straight to the most important hack for any living room: the classic arcade coffee table. Who doesn't want easy access to PAC-MAN with old school joysticks and buttons? If a coffee table arcade is too much of a spacial commitment for you, a nightstand can be hacked for the same purpose as well.

In the event that old school arcade games aren't your cup of tea, you still have plenty of great furniture hacks to choose from for the living room. Here are some of our favorites:

People see what you put in your living room more than any other place in the house. It's possibly the best place to hack your furniture into something amazing because then you'll have no trouble showing it off.



You might not find a ton of furniture in the kitchen but you can perform a few hacks that provide some handy features while you're cooking. Perhaps the most practical is to embed a scrap bowl in a butcher block table for easier cleanup. A DIY vertical dish drainer also makes cleanup less work. For more fun, mount an iPad into a cabinet door. If you've always wanted a nice kitchen island but didn't want to pay a ton for it, you can make one out of an IKEA sideboard on the cheap. Finally, if you've always wanted a pantry but don't have any room, you can make one that slides out of your wall with two shelves.



The bedroom offers a limited number of options as well, seeing as you only truly need a bed, but that doesn't mean you can't hack what you've got. Of all the bedroom hacks, adding storage to your bed by repurposing a bunch of shelves is likely the most useful. You might want to consider adding an articulating arm for your ereader or tablet for easy access. If you want to offer seating for the occasional visitor, this nice bookcase-turned-bench provides a nice option on the cheap. If you want some extra shelving in the corner of your wall, use a magazine rack (or two). Lastly, if you need a bedside charging station try this one. It looks pretty decent, costs little to make, and keeps your cables nice and organized.


Happy Friday and enjoy hacking your furniture!