A tiny tweak to your storage can calm the chaos. Parents, renters and home‑workers are making one low‑cost swap fast this ...

When it comes to designing your home office, optimizing storage is the most important step to creating a space that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing. Despite their necessity, bulkier ...

To do that, she reached for a classic: BILLY bookcases. But instead of leaving them as is, she decorated the doors with ...

Tim Harford tells the extraordinary story of Ikea’s Billy bookcase in this extract from his new book Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy. Denver Thornton hates the Billy bookcase. He runs a ...

Clutter keeps rising, floor space keeps shrinking, and families want storage that bends to their lives, not the reverse.

We've made no secret of the fact we love an Ikea hack. Whether it's ways to transform your bedroom, updates for your living room, or even kitchen hacks for enhancing the space you already have, if ...

Economist and journalist Tim Harford was able to share his new book, “Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy” (Riverhead, Aug. 29) — filled with tales of 50 inventions that shaped our world ...

You know IKEA’s Billy bookcase, right? You probably have one or two or 10 of them in your home, so popular is this staple of Swedish flat-packed build-it-yourself ...

The chances are you have an Ikea Billy bookcase or know someone who does. And not just one – several. There are five in my house, white 40cm by 202cm ones all heaving with books and bits and pieces.

The forefather of flat-pack furniture and creator of one of the world’s most recognisable bookshelves, designer Gillis Lundgren, has died at the age of 86. Hired in 1953 by Scandinavian superstore ...