Adding a Drawer to an IKEA Kitchen Island: This small IKEA counter represents pretty much the entirety of the counter space in my small apartment kitchen. It has served me well for over a year but I do lots of cooking and I really needed more storage space for kitchen utensils, etc. I have o…

Sleek, tall desks look chic, non? But that slim aesthetic comes with a price: Storage. If you took our advice and opted for an IKEA Melltorp as your main workspace, you might be interested to see how one DIY’er created a portable drawer for the svelte white table.Wein Krisztina, an IKEA Hacker from Budapest, yanked a wooden drawer from an old IKEA Moppe chest of drawers and turned it into a portable storage drawer to hold gadgets at her dining table.

Did you know you can use IKEA drawers in any kitchen? Adding sliding drawers to cabinets is so easy with these tips!

DIY Upcycled Dresser Kitchen Island Recently I’ve been sharing with you parts of my son and daughter-in-law’s house that they bought as an investment. Most of the house was coming along great but the kitchen needed something, and that something … Continue Reading →

Brandi - DIY Home & Tools on Instagram: "It’s done! I’m comparing the DIY to premade pull out depot options in my stories this week! I did both and I have some thoughts! The slides I used are meant to be installed on the bottom and center of a drawer. They are only rated to about 40lbs so it may not be the best of you have a lot of heavy things going on this drawer. If you want a heavy duty option there are under mount slides available that attach to the cabinet sides. I will link both on my…

Learn how to measure and size drawer fronts and drawer boxes--no matter what you're building! Easily determine each drawer dimension.

All about how we took a store bought sofa table and repurposed it into a DIY kitchen Island, by adding new feet and a butcher block top. Custom piece without th…

I love apothecary cabinets...well actually I love little drawers...LOVE! So when the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store wanted to gift me a piece of furniture to upd…