How to “match” furniture to your interior
The Besto IKEA planner will help with this. To work with it, you need to update Adobe Flash Player on your computer, if this has not already been done. You can then use all of the planner's features to design a Besto storage system from the company's ready-made combinations. You can learn more about working with the constructor from the video.
Besto furniture sets from IKEA allow you to choose the right piece for any interior in any modern home. With their help, all things are placed compactly and conveniently, and using such furniture is a pleasure.
Remodeling Besto Ikea cabinets
If you decide to update the furniture in your living room, pay attention to the Besto series from Ikea. Storage combinations, TV stands, cabinets and shelves can fit into any interior thanks to the modular system. In addition, with a little imagination, you can remake Besto furniture to your liking. Read on to find out how to do this.
Besto bed
Materials: Besto series cabinets
Description: We have a small bedroom, but we wanted a large bed, we bought 3 double-width Besto cabinets and one single from Ikea. The single tallest cabinet is used as a shelf near the bed. We removed the shelves and replaced them with large baskets, which is much cheaper than buying drawers and fronts from the Besto series.
We placed the bedside shelves on the floor without nailing them to the wall, and installed a matching headboard between them.
Debra, Livingston, Scotland
Simple Besto Living Room with Little Improvements
Materials: Besto Ikea
My wife and I wanted furniture with a simple and neat design in the interior, on which we can install a flat-screen TV, Wii and PS2 game console with all games and accessories (Wii stand and controller), DVD player (without our DVD collection) and Hi-Fi: the goal of the project was to create furniture that meets all these characteristics.
We bought 6 shelves 40x38 cm and 2 closed shelves 40x64 cm and hung them on the wall using fasteners, getting the interior you see in the photo.
We don't like all those hanging wires, so we drilled holes on the back of the shelves to allow the wires to pass through, allowing us to create a clean interior without any visible wires.
Moreover, we made several drawers in a combination where you can place DVDs, games and accessories for the console. Since the fronts of the drawers on sale have dimensions of 16x69 cm, we bought two standard doors 60x38 cm, we placed them inside using milling.
Gabriele, Rome, IT
Built-in shelves Besto Ikea and TV stand in the interior of a living room
Materials: Besto shelves
Description: This is our latest IKEA remodel (in the last remodel we used the Besto series and the Pax series, in the picture below).
We built a single wall with built-in shelves and drawers using only Besto shelves (2 m 44 cm wide and 2 m 75 cm high). From the outside it looks like sturdy cabinets at the base and open shelves at the top of the structure with small bookshelves on the sides.
The lower “cabinet” is a set of low shelves with doors that are located 18 cm from the wall. They are installed on a base so that the skirting boards go under the doors. The lower cabinet has two tabletops attached to each other.
We installed two side high shelves (the lower shelves were often connected directly to the tabletop using screws). We then installed the top shelf between the two side shelves and secured all the parts of this structure together with screws. There is a TV in the free space below the middle shelves (behind a curtain).
We installed a side panel to close the gap created behind the cabinets at the base of the structure. The lower baseboard and upper molding were installed to fit our built-in wardrobe into the interior space.
We are very pleased with the result that we were able to achieve as a result of this remodel. All this cost us 35,000 rubles ($700), and it took us about 15 hours to build this furniture.
Chris and Shirley, California
The best built-in wardrobe
Materials: Besto storage combination, Billy series shelves (or similar), finishing nails, pre-painted white parts, screws, chalk, handsaw, spray paint (may need to paint several pieces of different lengths).
Description: First you need to measure the interior space that needs to be filled - I wanted to use 2 Besta IKEA storage sections and 2 Billy shelves, but the shelves were too big, and I decided to use 2 storage sections and 2 white shelves to fill the space between the sections . As soon as you have all the components, begin installing them according to the plan. If you want to install shelves in free space, remember that it is very difficult to match the wood pattern, so it is better to take parts painted in one solid color from a Besto or Billy Ikea combination.
Installation instructions:
- Use a 5x10 cm block to create a frame that will need to be installed on the floor under the Besto sections and above the bookshelves. I used a handsaw and screws to make simple squares that I laid on the floor underneath the bottom of the structure, they were small enough to hide but strong enough to hold whatever was placed on them.
- Install the bookshelves and sections of the Besto combination on top of the 60x120 cm section, using fasteners, attach them firmly to the back wall, since we are building a built-in wardrobe, this will last a long time. You can fill the space between these two sections with 30x120cm or 30x90cm shelves depending on the amount of space you want to fill.
- For attaching shelves 30x120cm and for eliminating gaps between parts of the structure, if they are deepened into the wood, they are easier to hide, they can be painted, then they will become completely invisible.
- I cut the trim for the top and bottom of my wall-to-wall structure and once again made sure the furniture would fit perfectly with the existing baseboard on the floor. Use framing nails to attach the strip to the shelves.
- I cut one strip to the correct size to fit on top of the bookshelves and in the middle of the pseudo tabletop that sits between the two side sections, which I painted with gloss black spray paint.
- Fill any existing cracks, gaps and seams with putty and paint all shelves and elements that you intend to install to match the main structure.
- Take one step back and make sure your built-in closet looks like it was always there!
naomi c
