They Customized IKEA HAVSTAs to Create the Ideal Cozy Dining Room for Hosting

“We really wanted a dining room that we could host family and make memories in,” Trina Irwin says about her 1959 home. But Trina and her husband felt they couldn’t do that in the current setup they had.

The room wasn’t cohesive, and while it did have a built-in corner bookcase, it made the space feel more dated than it was. Plus, the current paint color didn’t match Trina and her husband’s design style. “I wanted to really center it on art and nature,” she notes, “while still leaning more mid-century modern.”

She Was Stuck for a Year Before She Saw This IKEA Hack

Over the course of a year, Trina stood in the dining room every so often and “floated ideas until something started to feel right.” But when she saw an IKEA bookcase built-in tutorial on Pinterest, everything clicked into place for the dining room’s new design.

They Replaced the Chair Railing with a Bold, Green Board and Batten

The transformation started with Trina…