A Boring Bedroom Corner Gets a Butter Yellow IKEA Makeover
The IKEA STORKLINTA is the newly redesigned version of IKEA’s three- and six-drawer MALM dressers (which first came to be in 2002), and it’s part of the MALM bedroom series, which includes a bed frame and a two-drawer nightstand.
DIYer Lina Rembold has had MALM drawers in her bedroom for 14 years, and although they’ve provided staple storage all that time she says she was growing “very bored of them.”
“They are very practical,” she says. “So I wanted to keep them and add a mirror to make the space look bigger.” Keep reading to see how Lina took the dressers from plain, functional furniture into stunning butter yellow accent pieces.
The IKEA dresser got a butter yellow upgrade.
“Butter yellow is currently a very trendy color, and I love yellow,” Lina says. She cleaned the IKEA dresser with a degreaser, primed the piece, and painted with two coats of Miss Pompadour’s Yellow with Hay, which the official website describes as “a friendly, bright shade of yellow, slightly muted by a few grey pigments.”
Lina used a small, approximately 4- to 6-inch roller for the primer and paint. She says painting was a meditative process and “brings life into [a] boring white corner.”
There’s a funky new mirror above the dresser.
To top off her yellow DIY, Rembold hung an organic-shaped mirror over the dresser to “bring depth to [the] corner,” and the paper lampshade overhead is from a German retailer, but you can find similar ones from IKEA or Wayfair.
Lina’s favorite part, though, is the revamped dresser. “Don’t just buy new furniture,” she advises. Instead, upgrade what you already have. This was very cost-friendly and fun.”
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