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I was standing in a rental kitchen in Hackney when the penny dropped. Two scuffed IKEA Billy bookcases were slouched under a ...

When it comes to designing your home office, optimizing storage is the most important step to creating a space that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing. Despite their necessity, bulkier ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Ikea will make changes to its low-cost, high-volume Billy bookshelf this ...

When it comes to bookshelves, few are more iconic than the IKEA BILLY bookcase. IKEA BILLYs have been seen in many, many apartments and homes since 1978 — in fact, IKEA sells one BILLY every five ...

This article may contain affiliate links that Yahoo and/or the publisher may receive a commission from if you buy a product or service through those links. IKEA’s BILLY bookcase is one of the brand’s ...

BILLY bookcases. But instead of leaving them as is, she decorated the doors with molding to give them a fluted wood look, ...

We gave a pair of designers with very different styles one day to transform the same IKEA Billy bookcase, turning one of the most popular furniture items in the world into something more personalized ...

Tim Harford tells the extraordinary story of Ikea’s Billy bookcase in this extract from his new book Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy. Denver Thornton hates the Billy bookcase. He runs a ...

My 1940 rowhouse has great bones, like a beautiful brick fireplace and original hardwood floors, but it’s been up to me to add architectural details — all those charming, characterful touches that I ...

IKEA is, functionally, in the business of selling ground-up trees, sometimes covered in very, very thin slices of not-ground-up trees. And it’s not even clear that they get those trees in an ...

Creating a customized, built-in bookshelf can easily cost upwards of $1,000. For blogger Noz Nozawa, this was not a practical option. As an interior designer, Nozawa knew she could be resourceful and ...