Rattan is all the rage right now and we’re applying it to this easy DIY Ikea tv stand hack for a simple storage unit hack for your bedroom or living room!

If you’ve been reading the blog for any length of time, then you know we LOVE a good Ikea hack!

Combine that with our current love of all things rattan and our need for storage beneath the TV in our bedroom, and you’ve got our DIY rattan Ikea TV unit!

Plus, you can make this in whatever colors or size combinations for your home decor preferences… It’s basically a glorified Ikea entertainment unit… except it’s in our bedroom.

It’s very similar to our easy rattan drawers tutorial, and this is one of our favorite Ikea Besta hacks.

Sure, some people opt for having no TV in their bedroom and others opt for a full entertainment situation. Clearly, we’re the latter…

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Materials and Tools Needed to Make A DIY Ikea TV Stand Or TV Cabinet

This DIY IKEA hack storage unit is super simple to recreate, but it does require a few different supplies.

Don’t be intimidated by this materials list though. It’s seriously as simple as combining all of the pieces together!

Materials and Tools for a DIY IKEA TV Cabinet

Woven grasscloth wallpaper — This is also a great alternative.

Binder cane trim

Box cutter or rotary cutter

Straight edge ruler

Hot glue and hot glue gun

Glue

Drill and bits

Handles of your choice — We used these C-half circle pulls.

Finished pine board

Natural wood stain

IKEA Besta cabinet frames

Sindvik IKEA doors in light grey — Each door requires one pack of Ikea Besta hinges that are sold separately. If placing a large TV on your stand, we recommend an Ikea Besta support leg.

Natural wood legs

How To Make A DIY Ikea TV Stand

Step 1 – First, assemble the IKEA best cabinet frame but be sure to leave the doors off.

Step 2 – Rather than using the BESTA legs twist the natural wood legs onto the bottom of the frames instead.

Step 3 – Using a box cutter or rotary tool and a straight edge, ut the grasscloth to fit inside the edge of the door frame on top of the glass.

You could easily cut the grasscloth to fit behind the glass, but I liked the look of a matte finish.

Step 4 – Once your grasscloth is cut to size, use the Weldbond glue to adhere the sheets to the glass Besta door.

Use the hot glue gun and cane trim to glue and edge pieces all around the grasscloth edges for a more finished look.

Easy DIY Ikea TV Stand - how to paint the wood

Step 5 – While the grasscloth glue is drying, you can stain the wood tops for your BESTA cabinets in the wood color of your choice.

If you’re savvy, you can use a table or rotary saw to cut the wood to fit the top of the cabinets, including the width of the doors, which is 16 3/4 deep by 47 1/4 wide.

If you’re not confident in cutting your own wood, you can ask your local home improvement store to size it for you.

Step 6 – Now, measure and mark for installing your handles using the drill and drill bits.

Step 7 – Once you’ve attached the handles and grasscloth fronts, you can place the wood on top with wood glue and clamps.

Since we combined three sets of the BESTA cabinets to create a custom-length IKEA tv stand, we only used two long pieces of wood as the topper rather than once for each BESTA cabinet.

IKEA TV Stand Alternatives

Though we used the IKEA Besta cabinets for this TV Stand, you could easily use other IKEA furniture options as well.

You could create a statement piece of furniture using the Ikea Kallax unit (which we used for our DIY Playroom Idea), IKEA Lack TV stand, Ikea Lack shelving unit, or Ikea Billy bookcases.

Rather than applying the rattan paper to the cabinets, you could use them as accents on the shelves or apply them to Kallax bins.

DIY Ikea TV Stand or Cabinet For Bedroom

I love the final result! It looks very custom without being overly complicated or expensive to DIY either.

It’s definitely a WAY more affordable option than a lot of the rattan media cabinets and storage units out there these days.

Adding a reclaimed wood top to this piece (as we did with our DIY Ikea Vanity Hack) would make for another really cool take on it, don’t you think?!

We also used the Besta cabinets in our living room makeover to create faux built-ins for another tv storage unit option.

More Ikea Hack Projects

You can see more of our Ikea hack projects for the home right here —

DIY Ikea TV Stand Or TV Cabinet