DIY Ikea TV Stand — Sharing the super-easy tutorial for how to make this trendy Ikea hack for your very own, custom Ikea TV stand or IKEA TV cabinet.
If you’ve been reading the blog for any length of time, then you know I LOVE a good Ikea hack!
Combine that with my 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. Sure, some people opt for having no TV in their bedroom and others opt for a full entertainment situation.
Clearly, we’re the latter…
Materials 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 for a DIY IKEA TV Cabinet —
- Woven grasscloth wallpaper
- 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
First, assemble the IKEA best cabinet frame but be sure to leave the doors off.
Rather than using the BESTA legs, twist the natural wood legs onto the bottom of the frames instead.
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 finished.
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 piece all around the grasscloth edges for a more finished look.
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 it to size for you.
Now, measure and mark for installing your handles using the drill and drill bits.
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, 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.
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 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 —
- Ikea hack bar cart
- DIY Ikea hack ice cream cart
- How to make a DIY Ikea hack floating credenza
- Prepping for guests with an Ikea hack dresser
- Ikea bed hack: DIY wooden headboard
- Our Ikea Kitchen and Kitchen Cabinets
DIY Ikea TV Stand Or TV Cabinet
DIY Ikea TV Stand: How to Hack A Rattan Ikea TV Unit
Equipment
- Box cutter or rotary cutter
- Straight edge ruler
- Hot glue and hot glue gun
- Drill and bits
Ingredients
- Woven grasscloth wallpaper
- Binder cane trim
- Multipurpose glue
- Handles of your choice we used these
- Finished pine board
- Natural wood stain
- IKEA Besta cabinet frames
- IKEA doors Sindvik light grey
- Ikea Besta hinges one pack needed per door
- Natural wood legs
Instructions
- Assemble the IKEA best cabinet frame but be sure to leave the doors off.
- Rather than using the BESTA legs, twist the natural wood legs onto the bottom of the frames instead.
- Using a box cutter or rotary tool and a straight edge, but 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 finished.
- 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 piece all around the grasscloth edges for a more finished look.
- While the grasscloth glue is drying, you can stain the wood tops for your BESTA cabinets in the wood color of your choice.
- Measure and mark for installing your handles using the drill and drill bits.
Notes
- Please be aware that the cost of this DIY is dependent on how long you would like your stand/cabinet to be.
- If you're placing a large TV on the stand, we recommend a Besta support leg.
