When it comes to affordable, fuss-free furniture, IKEA rarely misses. But behind the scenes, an entire subculture has sprung up around making IKEA's products look wildly more expensive than the price tags suggest. Across the globe, a legion of clever DIY-ers regularly share their IKEA hacks online, wielding spare timber, sandpaper, and paint, and using lateral thinking to transform blank canvases into bespoke masterpieces.
One such person is Danish designer Denise (@sirlig), who found a hack that actually requires little to no effort — my kind of DIY. In fact, it skips half of the flat-pack fuss altogether, reimagining IKEA's dimmable BACKSTORN pendant light in a way that looks so cool but involves fewer steps than the brand’s famously simple assembly instructions.
