Hemnes bookcase

Complete with a rattan façade and a monochromatic scheme, this IKEA HEMNES is the modern focal point every home needs

HEMNES living room series

So after thinking it over, I realized Ikea HEMNES cabinets were the perfect solution to our problem! We hacked a HEMNES Custom Built-in Storage Unit

Would you love built-in cabinetry in your living room but balk at the cost? Well, you know we love an…

We’ve hacked IKEA, and we are loving the results…so far. This is part 1 of how we did it! For this project, we used the Hemnes furniture line from IKEA, again. This time we used two Hemnes glass door cabinets with four drawers. Simple and plain…just my style. We love working with this line of furniture because it is solid wood. It’s not particle board foiled over with plastic and paints beautifully! (We don’t prime this stuff, just usually give it one coat of our trim paint; Sherwin Williams…

Welcome to the 677th Metamorphosis Monday! Hope you had an awesome weekend! We had a mini-snow storm on Sunday. It was short-lived but pretty while it was coming down. Did you see any snow in your area over the weekend? In a previous post a few months back, I mentioned the bowing issue I was having with the Ikea Billy bookshelves in my home office. Two lovely BNOTP readers suggested I look into the Ikea Hemnes bookcase which is made of solid wood. That was right around the time I was turning…

We wanted an entire wall of bookshelves for our office in our new house and wanted them to look like “built-ins”. As it turned out, four Hemnes units (two open shelves, two cabinets with glass doors) were exactly the length of the wall minus about 4 inches. We figured we could make up the rest with filler and trim.

Ikea Hemnes glass door cabinet and bookcase for sale. In good condition - a couple of little dinks here and there. Here are the links to them as new: https://w…

15 posts published by Laurie during March 2012