IKEA Hack: IKEA's IVAR and IKEA's INGO Get a Facelift

by Engineer Your Space

When I moved into my new apartment, I was starting from scratch in my dining room. Being on a budget, I decided to go with an inexpensive pine table (INGO - $69) and pine chairs(IVAR - $25 each) from IKEA and give them an upgrade. All it took was a little bit of paint, some fabric and 1" foam with batting, and voila, they hardly look like the same table and chairs. I love how they add lots of personality to my dining room, and they were the starting point for the rest of my dining room transformation. Next on the list is a bench for a banquette, but that's whole other story!

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I painted the chairs the same blue as in my kitchen (Behr, sailboat), and upholstered the seats with 1" foam, batting and a fun striped fabric.

For the table, I stained the legs with a semi-transparent stain from Behr in a color called pinto white

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Anna Riera on Apr 06, 2016
Beautiful! I have the same table and wonder what I could do to improve it! Did you stain the tabletop as well? Or just varnished it? Thanks!

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Joanna Elaine on Jul 03, 2016
Did you sand th table before staining?

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Kelsey Hibbits on Jan 02, 2017
What type of Behr paint did you use??

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Mark Pearson on Sep 13, 2015
We've just got one of these tables - how did you do the top?

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LibraryKAT on Jun 11, 2017

Nice job! It looks great. You do good work. :-)

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