10 Ikea Office Ideas - Jessica Welling Interiors

These 10 Ikea office ideas are perfect and budget-friendly solutions if you need to work from home, whether you have a large or small space!

10 Ikea Home Offices: collage of 4 different home offices featuring Ikea desk hacks, Skadis pegboard, Alex drawer Units, Kvissle file sorters, and more.

I’m on a home office kick, and since the kids needed a distance-learning space for school this year, I got to design and set up another Ikea office/ desk over the Summer.

Why Ikea Office Furniture?

I often gravitate toward Ikea when I need office furniture. Why? It’s inexpensive, stylish, and modular. It’s also easy to make some tweaks to the Ikea pieces to make them fit your space perfectly.

Plus, I love that they make so many inexpensive storage pieces- from bookcases, to file cabinets, to pegboards. I usually end up supplementing with a few things from other retailers, but it usually starts with a few simple pieces from Ikea.

If you don’t have an Ikea near you, here’s a list of my favorite inexpensive desks for home offices.

1. My Ikea corner office

When I created this budget-friendly Ikea home office for my growing business, I never imagined how popular it would be. You can see more pictures and all the details of how we hacked it with just a few brackets from Home Depot below.

modern Ikea home office with large corner desks and Kallax bookshelf, with magazine files, Kvisssle paper sorters, and lots of indoor plants.

2. Long Ikea-Hacked Desk With Multiple Workstations

This one isn’t technically an office- I actually designed it to be a distance-learning desk for the kids, with a chair in the center for me.

But it would work just as well as a shared home office. By building an extra-long desk top to go with the drawer units from Ikea, we were able to create a more custom look. If it was going to have just two workstations, I would add a third drawer unit in the center.

You can see all the details of how we put this together and shop the space below.

long Ikea-hacked desk with two Alex file drawer units, Skadis pegboard storage, floating shelves, and indoor plants against a dark green accent wall

3. Closet Office

What should you do if you don’t have room for a workspace? Transform an under-used closet into a closet office or “cloffice.”

Peter’s desk has been in the TV room closet for several years. I gave it a fun makeover a few months ago- back when we all thought we would just be quarantined for a few more weeks!

Modern masculine office in a closet with Ikea Alex and Linmon, Kvissle wall file storage, and an Ikea desk chair

4. DIY Foating Desks

The desks themselves aren’t from Ikea, but all the wall organizers are! If you just need a small workspace for a laptop or a child’s bedroom, this is a great space-saving and inexpensive DIY desk option to consider! You can see how we built them below.

child working at a small DIY floating desk made using plywood and metal brackets, with Ikea Skadis pegboard and Kvissle file storage on the wall

5. Modern Alex Drawer Unit Makeover

Medina from Grillo Designs gave an Alex drawer unit from Ikea a super-chic modern makeover! Check out her post to see how she did it!

6. Ikea Drawers With Fun New Legs!

My friend Stephanie, from Casa Watkins Living created this stunning office in her basement. It’s full of Ikea pieces, and I’m especially loving her Alex drawer unit hack!

Ikea Alex hack with new gold legs, a colorful rug, and a parrot painting above it.

6. Glam Ikea Office

I love the dramatic modern Ikea cabinetry in this office from Love Create Celebrate.

Ikea home office with black cabinetry, floating shelves, and a mermaid scale tile wall

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Sarah from Making Joy and Pretty Things did some amazing Ikea-hacking in this gorgeous home office space!

light green Ikea-hacked desk wall with built-in storage, bookshelf, and file cabinet.

7. Ikea-hack Office Nook Under the Stairs

I love this creative small-space office nook under the stairs by Medina of Grillo Designs. It’s perfect for a kid’s or teen’s room or any tight space.