Ikea hacks: personalising your own furniture

It’s 30 years since Ikea opened its first shop in the UK in Warrington. There are now 20 Ikeas, with two more planned. The Ikea look is paired down and inexpensive. Not everybody who buys stuff from Ikea likes it like that, so they buy add-ons or hacks to make the furniture look more distinctive, more pricey. You can get designer sofa covers, table legs, mirrors, cushions and counter-tops. Independent companies sell ranges of designs to adapt Ikea products. Ikea wants in on some of this hacking action. It’s commissioned a new sofa from the British Designer Tom Dixon, and the sofa has been made especially to be easy to hack. Daniel Hoffwood is an interior designer and presenter of the BBC’s Great British Interior Design Challenge, he talks to Winifred Robinson about the sofa and Ikea hacks.

First broadcast on You & Yours, 16 October 2017.