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 ...

When it comes to bookshelves, few are more iconic than the IKEA BILLY bookcase. IKEA BILLYs have been seen in many, many apartments and homes since 1978 — in fact, IKEA sells one BILLY every five ...

DELFT, Netherlands — Ikea‘s Billy Bookcase has been one its best-selling and most popular products since it first launched in 1979. But now, more than 40 years later, it’s getting a major rework. The ...

There are some IKEA furniture lines that just never go out of style — and one of those is the BILLY bookcase series. The classic bookcase comes in a variety of sizes and in six natural stains: white, ...

Spare rooms have vanished, dining tables do double duty, and families are hunting for square centimetres they don’t have ...

This article may contain affiliate links that Yahoo and/or the publisher may receive a commission from if you buy a product or service through those links. If there’s a single item in IKEA’s catalog ...

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 furniture. So why is IKEA changing ...

"Plumbing is like the quiet boss of the bathroom; it dictates what’s possible," says Kathy Kuo, designer and founder of Kathy ...

Your Ikea shopping basket will soon be able to hold a Billy bookcase—and a dose of renewable energy. The world’s biggest furniture brand is branching out into selling renewable energy to households, ...

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 ...