Mum reveals how she turned tiny cupboard into home office for free – using Ikea units

Such a intelligent use of area (Image: Lexi Lewis)

Should you’re nonetheless working from house on account of the pandemic, you'll know simply how vital it's to have an area in your house devoted to work.

With the boundaries between house and work life changing into more and more blurred, extra folks than ever are investing in house places of work – however area is a matter for a lot of.

Nonetheless, you don’t need to have a spare bed room or sufficient area in your backyard to construct an out of doors workplace, as one savvy mum found.

Lexie Lewis, 40, a mum of 1 from Kent who works in admin, was fed up together with her work spilling into her bed room.

So, she determined to remodel a tiny cabinet into a house workplace.

(Image: Lexi Lewis)

She began by placing the Ikea unites within the area (Image: Lexi)

Repurposing outdated Ikea items and decking planks, Lexie obtained her separate house workplace, and he or she did all of it with out spending a single penny. 

‘I downsized right into a two-bed home and needed to strive and squeeze the whole lot into my bed room,’ Lexie instructed money-saving Fb group DIY On A Funds UK.

Subsequent got here the cabinets manufactured from outdated decking (Image: Lexi)

‘I didn’t like having the pc and paperwork in there as a result of it appeared too cluttered. The cabinet is on the prime of the steps and gave the impression to be  match for the whole lot.’ 

To rework the area, Lexi used two standing Ikea Lack items that she already had after which minimize lengths of decking planks that a earlier tenants left in the backyard to make the cabinets. 

Lexi drilled a gap by way of the wall so she might plug the whole lot in (Image: Lexi Lewis)

‘I put the whole lot in and drilled a gap by way of the wall into the bed room for the extension lead and plugged the whole lot in,’ she explains.

‘I'd say you would use any sturdy wooden for the shelving, it doesn’t must be overly neat as as soon as issues are on the cabinets you don’t see them.’

It’s the proper cosy area for working (Image: Lexi Lewis)

Lexi is delighted with the way it turned out (Image: Lexi Lewis)

One other piece of recommendation from Lexi is to take a look at Fb Market, Gumtree and ebay for IKEA items, as there are sometimes some on the market. 

‘I completely find it irresistible now it’s completed, my bed room is rather more spacious and it solely value me my time,’ she says.

‘It was utterly free to construct as I had the whole lot already.

‘I’m actually satisfied with it. It’s nice to work in, I simply need to thoughts my knees once I sit down!’