15 IKEA Products You Wouldn't Have Thought Belong In A Bedroom

IKEA has earned its reputation as a go-to location for DIY basics. The manufacturer sells a wide range of products that are the perfect base to customize and transform. If you're looking to completely transform your bedroom using IKEA items, it's worth looking beyond the bedroom section of the IKEA website or your local store. If you're feeling a little uninspired browsing bedroom products, these are some creative ideas to repurpose IKEA kitchen, entryway, and organization finds into something suitable for your sleeping quarters.

Ranging from shoe storage units to spice racks, these are some of our favorite pieces that can double as bedroom furniture, decor, or storage. With a little imagination, these pieces can solve common problems, such as limited storage, restricted space, and awkward layouts. Sometimes, they even do the job better than purpose-made bedroom products. Even if you're working with a spacious room, some of these creative ideas can add useful decoration or hidden organization. Ahead, we delve into some IKEA products you probably never considered for the bedroom, but absolutely should.

The TRONES shoe storage cabinet is designed to offer space-saving shoe storage in an entryway, but it's useful to create extra storage all around the home — from tucking away hair accessories in the bathroom to extra pantry space in the kitchen. This requires mounting on the wall behind the bed, so it's not renter-friendly. However, for bedrooms short on storage, it's an excellent idea since you can utilize inside-the-cabinet space and the recessed surface along the top.

The ÄLGANÄS hat and coat stand is another popular pick for entryways. The hooks are ideal for organizing coats, scarves, and hats while a bottom storage section fits umbrellas and other accessories. While it's designed with home foyers in mind, this coat stand is also excellent for the bedroom. Used more traditionally, you can utilize it as clothes storage in your room, but more creatively, you can use it for items such as hair accessories and tote bags. You can even use it for decoration, including with a faux plant in the bottom section. This is a great product for renters who need a little more compact bedroom storage since it has a small footprint and no installation is needed.

The PERJOHAN bench with storage is a dining bench, intended to add casual seating and extra storage in a kitchen or dining room. It's a sturdy, solid pine piece with an open storage section along the bottom. It can really go anywhere, from in the entryway as a spot to put on your shoes, to in the bedroom as a seat to relax on, with built-in space for extra blankets and pillows. Its simple design makes it a great minimalist alternative to the typical, more ornamented and cushioned end-of-bed benches.

The DIGNITET curtain wire isn't out-of-place in a bedroom: It's perfectly suited for mounting a curtain along a window or sliding door. However, you can use it for so much more. Really, it suits any light-duty hanging tasks. Shown is the wire repurposed as accessory storage, however, you can use it to store and display almost anything you can hang from a peg or hook.

Hanging caddies are affordable IKEA items that help you keep your bedroom clutter-free, but you can look beyond bedroom products for this purpose. The KROKFJORDEN shower caddy's basic, useful design can be repurposed all around the home. Hang it from any hook or door knob in the bedroom to store small items. It's the ideal size for notebooks and other small bits, and has a couple of hooks along the bottom for hanging items, too.

The MOPPE mini storage chest is a desktop organizer intended for a home office. It's perfectly sized for organizing pens, erasers, and rulers in its separate drawers. This product is a DIYer-favorite IKEA product because it's made of birch plywood, which means it comes ready to paint or finish. The wood material also looks nice, so it's great for upcycling. In a bedroom, a creative way to use it is as a wall-mounted nightstand. However, you can use it anywhere as storage for small bedroom items, from makeup to small hobby accessories.

A cutting board in the bedroom? The STOLTHET cutting board is more than stylish enough to use beyond the kitchen. It's a handsome, elevated cutting board, so you can use it as a riser tray for pretty decor on a wardrobe, or perfumes and cosmetics on a vanity. You can also flip it over to use as a book holder with built-in book ends. It helps keeps favorite, or to-be-read, books neatly organized on a nightstand or shelf.

From maximizing kitchen storage to adding bathroom organization, the BEKVÄM spice rack is a small shelf you can repurpose for all sorts of storage and display uses. It's made of aspen wood, so it's another product that's easy to paint or stain. You can mount it on a wall anywhere in your room as a small shelf, but we think it looks particularly adorable next to a bed to offer some extra nightstand space.

The VILTO towel stand is technically a bathroom storage product. It's made of solid birch that's sealed to handle bathroom conditions, so it's more than sturdy enough to repurpose in the bedroom. Instead of a towel stand, place blankets across its rungs to create a blanket ladder. It comes with a small storage pouch, which is great for holding small accessories.

The NÄMMARÖ privacy screen is made of pretty, light-brown stained wood. The solid acacia wood construction makes it look handsome, and if you have the urge to use it in the bedroom, one way to do so is as a headboard. It offers a distinctive slatted look when mounted to the wall behind a bed. It measures around 55 inches tall, so turn it on its side and it should fit nicely behind most full-size beds (most full mattresses measure around 54 inches wide).

The HULTARP rail is technically a kitchen wall organizer, but its simple design means it's useful for all around the home. It's practical as entryway storage, bathroom organization, and, of course, to add extra usable space to bedroom walls. Paired with HULTARP hooks or HULTARP containers, it provides a spot to hang clothes, accessories, jewelry, and other items you need for getting ready for the day. This rail is made of metal, so it's pretty sturdy, and it's available in a couple of finishes and lengths.

A VARIERA pot lid organizer can be surprisingly versatile for bedroom storage. You can mount it on a wall on its side to display books so it looks like the books are floating — a cool decor feature you wouldn't expect from an affordable pot lid holder. The organizer is also useful for organizing cluttered shelves and drawers, for propping up shirts or pants Marie Kondo-style around the bedroom, or for use on a vanity to hold makeup palettes.

The HEAT trivet is one of the best IKEA home essentials under $10 because you can use it in any room as a coaster to protect surfaces. Even better, it's an affordable DIY material if you need small pieces of cork. Three are included in a pack, and you can mount the trivets as-is to the wall and use them as a memo board or jewelry holder. A more creative option is to cut a trivet into half-moon shapes to make a celestial jewelry holder.

The GREJIG shoe rack is a best-seller since it's an affordable shoe-storage solution: the fold-out racks are sturdy and stackable to create your own shoe-storage layout. But, if you take another look, it's really just a simple, stackable mini shelf system — and you can use it as such in the bedroom. Use the racks as shelf risers on a desk to organize items upward, in a closet to separate piles of folded clothes, or on a nightstand to add an extra layer of storage. There is so much potential.

You can repurpose the VARGFISK placemat all around the house as a decor tray. It's not as sturdy as a tray, though, so you can't use it to carry items, but it can create relaxed visual separation. If you want to do a bit of DIYing, you can make it into a boho memo board. To give a surface for push pins to stick to, you just need some type of backing stuck behind the placemat, such as foam or cork board.