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To make your shopping experience a little easier, I've rounded up my favorite IKEA products that look expensive (but aren't).

Stunning Ikea hacks before and after their transformations. See the difference you can make to Ikea products with some incredible Ikea hacks.

Confession time: When I wrote the ultimate IKEA shopping list, the POÄNG chair was mysteriously missing from the bunch. Truthfully, I turned my nose up at this chair for way too long. It was just so quintessentially and so obviously IKEA. But you know what? Every time I see the $100-ish POÄNG in person or in photos, the damn thing always looks amazing.

There is some pretty great stuff at IKEA. But it’s hard not to be jealous of IKEA shoppers from the 70s and 80s when you see some of the amazing stuff that used to line the retailer’s shelves. Here are eleven favorite vintage pieces that we’d love to see make a comeback. Above: IKEA’s TAJT, seen here on the cover of their 1973 catalog (via Scraphacker), is a pretty clever design — and maybe the most attractive chair-that-turns-into-a-bed I’ve ever seen.

Forty years after its launch, the POÄNG is as fashionable as ever. Here's how to keep it chic for decades to come

The Ikea Nolmyra has so much potential. Great lines, perfect scale, cool bent plywood legs. But with that stock gray mesh cover, it’s a like a sexy foot stuck in a dirty running shoe. You can easily upgrade it, though. Just toss a $12 Gurli throw into your Ikea cart, and we’ll show you how to give this cool little lounge chair a whole new look. Gurli throw (or 1.

Confession time: When I wrote the ultimate IKEA shopping list, the POÄNG chair was mysteriously missing from the bunch. Truthfully, I turned my nose up at this chair for way too long. It was just so quintessentially and so obviously IKEA. But you know what? Every time I see the $100-ish POÄNG in person or in photos, the damn thing always looks amazing.

The Ultimate Energizer Guide PDF Download. So we went back to the drawing board and spent months writing a detailed manual, not to mention testing everything to make sure anyone could build it in simple steps and after a truckload of work, The Ultimate Energizer Guide PDF was born. The Ultimate Energizer Guide PDF is incredibly easy. Even if you don’t have a screwdriver in your home…and with our step by step instructions, building your own generator is as easy as assembling an IKEA chair!

Ikea Gregor office chair with a seat pad and lumbar cushion in patchworked Cath Kidston fabrics. Blogged at: henhousehomemade.blogspot.com/2010/03/meet-gregor.html

We could talk about IKEA hacks all day, all month, all year… literally all the time. There’s always something new and creative that DIYers, designers, people on a budget, and Scandinavian design lovers are dreaming up, and more often than not, an affordable piece of unassuming furniture is transformed into a truly elegant piece.