20 IKEA Lack Table Hacks

IKEA sells furniture and home accessories through its stores located worldwide. If you have been to IKEA, you must be very familiar with the products in IKEA LACK series, especially the LACK tables. The amazing price and wide color selection of IKEA Lack tables make this piece of furniture a staple in households around the globe.

While Lack tables from IKEA feature a relatively simple design. Most homeowners don’t want it to look like a cheap and simple table in their house. That’s where some well planned and creative IKEA hacks come into play and provide tons of ways to hack or modify the Lack tables and turn them into the unique and personal home decor pieces you really want. Take a look at these incredible LACK table hack ideas I rounded up recently for your inspiration.

Paint Chip Dog Bed

We can see potential projects from the different angle. Look at this adorable and interesting one. Just turning an IKEA LACK table upside down, adding a half sonotube as the canopy of the dog bed and decorating with some plastic chains and beautiful paper, a clever and colorful four-poster paint chip dog bed is born. Your beloved pet will love it very much. Check the step-by-step tutorial here.

Ikea Table Hack with More Storage

You can easily turn two simple IKEA LACK tables together into a bigger one with more storage. When you want to clear the top out, you can put the stuffs under the bottom shelf. Get more details here.

Modern Welded Table

This creative welded table is made with the wood tabletop from an IKEA LACK table and the X-shaped metal frame as the table legs. It’s simply chic and perfect for any room of your house. See more details here.

Vertical Succulent Garden Planter

Using the tabletop of an IKEA Lack table to create this lovely succulent planter. It will be a perfect decor of your garden whether hang it or lay it flat on a patio table. See how to do it here.

DIY Ottoman Side Table

A LACK table from IKEA is a popular purchase for its friendly price. But it is super simple in design. It’s time for you to give it a bit of style. This genius and custom ottoman side table matches the space much better than before. You can get the detailed tutorials here.

Budget-friendly Parson Side Table

Such a clever idea to use IKEA LACK side table. Put two LACK tables from IKEA to create one super awesome parsons side table like this. It’s very practical in the guest room or any other room.Here’s the tutorial for your reference.source

DIY Lego Table

If you have kids who are the Lego toy addicts. You will be so happy to see this genius tutorial on creating a Lego Table from an ordinary LACK table and get free from Lego chaos. See the step-by-step directions here.

Vintage Modern End Table

Get the step-by-step tutorials to create this beautiful and budget-friendly end table from a plain IKEA table for any room of your house here.

DIY Dog Dinner Table

Dogs often push their bowls around the kitchen floor when they eat. You can buy a LACK side table from IKEA and cut the properly sized holes in which to place our dog’s food and water bowls. It would be much nicer to have them stay in one place. See morehere.

DIY Chalkboard Table for Kids

The chalkboard table on sale is very expensive. Here is an creative idea about how to DIY a cheap and easy chalkboard table with IKEA LACK table. I love the design of the chalk storage in the middle of the table. For this project, I didn’t find the detailed tutorial, but I think it is very easy and you can make according to the picture. source

Cat Tree with IKEA LACK Tables

Combine 3 LACK tables together to create a comfortable house for your cats. Check how to do it .here.

DIY Cheap and Chic Bottlecap Table

A creative and genius idea to style your LACK table from IKEA using the bottlecaps in different patterns. This DIY is more labor intensive, but it is worth the time and is really a blast to make. Get the full tutorials here.

IKEA Hack Music Visualizer Table

With little imagination, we can have the coolest music visualizer table with a simple IKEA LACK table and some LED lights. When music is played near it, it will light up. Do you want to own one? Check here for the full tutorials. But you should know know ahead that this project is really labor intensive. But it turns out to be very fabulous.source

DIY Campaign Style Side Tables

These simple gold brass corners give this simple table a campaign style and make it look expensive and gorgeous in the living room. Yes? But you should choose the right color of the table that matches the whole style of the rest furniture in your room. You know this will be the easiest way to customize your LACK table. You can get the full directions here.

DIY Gilded Bedside Table

Here is another idea to make the simple IKEA LACK side table look and feel so much more luxurious and fantastic than you would imagine. Head over to see the detailed directions here.

Vintage Suitcase Topped Table

Such a genius way to remove the top of her LACK table and replace with the a vintage suitcase to create more storage space. Learn more details here.

Nailhead Side Table

Another creative and easy way to add a touch of style to the Lack coffee table. See more details here.

Rope-wrapped Coffee Table

Refashion your Lack coffee table from IKEA by wrapping both the tabletop and legs with nautical rope. See more here.

Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table

Remove the boring wood legs of the IKEA LACK coffee table and replace with a pair of signature tapered ones. You can get this unique and custom modern coffee table. Learn the details here.