Hello,

I’m browsing ikea basic furniture to use for a DIY project. I don’t seem to find what I need! Do you know if there would be anything good to use for my project ? Can you recommend me any? Or should I go look somewhere else?

I want to build a narrow table / consol to put behind my sofa. So it would be 98” long for 6” to 8” wide. I want it to be higher than my sofa (48-50” high) so my cat can sit on top of it to look out at the window (it’s in a basement). I’ll integrate shelves, and plugs for different items… Anyway, can you think of anything I can use to start from?

Thanks for your help!

I’ve had a 55” LACK IKEA console table for almost a decade now, the last 3 years of which it’s been serving as a side table to my living room couch of the same height after being updated with a coat of fresh white paint.

I realized eventually that I also wanted storage behind the couch, so I started looking into my options online with little luck. The length was exactly 110” which wasn’t impossible to find, but I couldn’t find anything that I didn’t think would be too deep for the limited area behind the barstools.

It eventually dawned on me that with that length, I could just buy two more of the same LACKs and put them side-by-side. I bought one to see if the depth would be too much, and found myself wishing I could just saw it down the middle to get one twice as long and half as deep…

So I borrowed a table saw and did just that.

I bought some brackets from Lowe’s & some mounting brackets from Amazon to slot the table tight against the couch. Total cost including the table itself was about $120. Super pleased with how it turned out.

I didn’t bother to close up the “guts” on the side against the couch with laminate veneer since they aren’t really visible from most angles, but that would certainly help the level of polish.

I eventually went back and swapped out the old white table with a matching one and the same natural finish.

Thanks for reading!!