IKEA Fan's Clever Solution Turns Blank Kitchen Wall Into Stunning Statement Feature

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Whether you live in a big house or a smaller apartment, there's a good chance you have at least one blank wall you just don't know what to do with. Luckily, there are plenty of creative ways to decorate a large and empty wall, including dressing it up with plants. Instagram creator @diegodesignsss recently shared how effective this is, showing off an inspiring hack for turning a bare wall into a beautiful living surface. And the best part? You can do it using just two affordable IKEA products.  

In this clever DIY, the first step is centering and drilling one of IKEA's HULTARP rails into the wall. When drilling into your wall, be sure to drill into studs to bear the weight of the rail and pots. If you can't drill into a stud, use wall anchors to keep the screws from stripping out of the wall. The second rail then goes directly underneath the first, leaving about 12 inches of space between them. After both rails are secured on the wall, follow this designer's lead and put pothos plants into six of IKEA's HULTARP containers, with three of the plant containers going on each rail. For the final step, CraZy TACKz (push pins with hooks) go around the wall, providing supports for the plant vines so they'll fill the area in any desired direction. The result is a luscious cascading plant wall. "Look how beautiful this wall came out," the creator stated after completing the installation. "It's looking cozy and like a cottage."

Although this DIY creator opted for a combination of gold rails and white containers, the IKEA pieces come in several finishes, which makes it easy to match them to your own decor. The HULTARP rails come in black, nickel plated, and polished/brass colors and two sizes, a 23 ½-inch-long version costing $10 and a 31 ½-inch rail that costs $3 more. You can even use double-ended screws to combine multiple rails into a longer run, giving you more ways to fill a blank wall.

Meanwhile, the containers, which cost $7 a piece, come in black with black hooks, blue with nickel plated hooks, and white with polished/brass-colored hooks. Following the two-rail setup, the DIY runs a little over $40 (not including the cost of the plants), but it's easy to take the idea further by adding more rails and plants. Just remember: More plants mean more upkeep when it comes to watering. You also don't have to stick to pothos. There are plenty of low-maintenance indoor plants to use for creating a stunning living wall indoors — including philodendrons, ferns, anthuriums, English ivy, and coleus. 

Another bonus of this DIY is that you can repurpose the rails for stylish storage if you ever want to change up the plant wall. All you'd have to do is swap the containers for IKEA's HULTARP hooks ($3 for a pack of five) and hang woven baskets for extra storage space. Or, if the rails are on a wall in your kitchen, you could hang things like mugs, pots, and tea towels from them, a clever way to use IKEA products to turn dead kitchen space into storage.