Adding Legs To Ikea Malm Dresser

Next turn your furniture over and screw in the furniture plates into all four corners of the underside of your ikea unit.

Adding legs to ikea malm dresser.

Ikea malm dresser hack with gorgeous wood imitating stickers that add texture and structure to the space ikea malm hack in navy with yellow drawer trim ring pulls and brass legs for a touch of vintage elegance. The ikea malm dresser does not come with handles. On the alex drawers do not put the drawers in yet. Now the fun part the knobs.

Start by cutting your wood blocks to size. Since the bottom of the ikea malm dresser is open first we need to add support pieces to the underside of the dresser that the legs can attach to. The additions were designed specifically for the brand s furniture so they attach seamlessly. In order to attach our legs onto a furniture without pre drilled holes for m8 bolts you need to use our universal fitting plates.

The wedge shaped top of the drawer front acts as the opener. The malm dresser from ikea has a frame underneath but unfortunately not all the way around please see attached picture. With that in mind an easy way to update the malm is to just add some handles. Ikea inspired bedroom more information adding legs to a malm dresser updating my malms to look more expensive with simple 1 00 3 00 a piece wooden legs i found from home depot.

Tapered legs can be bought either new or second hand just make sure they come with fixing brackets so you can just screw the legs to the base of your ikea furniture. How to add legs to ikea kallax and alex first visit your local ikea store to buy ikea storage units or order them online then assemble your ikea units. I loveee brass or lucite knobs so for the bedroom dresser i used brass ring pulls and for sophia s room i used a lucite and brass pulls for a more vintage look. Instructions for adding legs.

Please note that the ikea malm dresser does not com predrilled. This simple offering from josefinegunhamre on instagram does just that with some leather strap pulls.