IKEA has always been famous for its budget-friendly furniture, but over the last decade, the concept of the IKEA hack has blown up on social media. All over Instagram and TikTok you'll find people transforming bestsellers like the Billy bookcase or the Kallax unit into designer lookalikes. But what about the IKEA pieces that are too good to hack?
For every non-descript (albeit well-designed) piece of IKEA furniture, there is a Scandi design classic that you'd be doing a disservice to if you were to touch it with a glue gun or tin of paint. IKEA has always been home to a huge team of talented designers, many of whom have created iconic IKEA pieces that can now fetch £1000s at auction.
