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. The BILLY bookcase is a legend. One of ...

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, ...

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The major selling point of this hack is that it saved Dalia about $1,460, as she couldn’t find anything off-the-shelf for under $2,000 and her custom project only cost her $540. Another advantage? The ...

Every New Yorker knows that renting an apartment is a game of trade-offs — you can’t (and won’t) win ’em all when it comes to your “must-haves” list. When one unit has a dishwasher, it’s missing ...

Love it or loathe it, Ikea has got a big blue and yellow grip on our homes. Out comes the Ikea catalogue, up comes the carpet, and lo and behold, we've all got strip wood flooring (well, laminate), ...

Ikea makes a Billy bookcase every three seconds and sells one every five — something the company has been proudly broadcasting for years. Apparently, that’s not fast enough. As the Swedish retailer of ...

We gave a pair of designers with very different styles one day to transform the same IKEA Billy bookcase, turning one of the most popular furniture items in the world into something more personalized ...

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Gillis Lundgren, an industrial designer who helped make Ikea the largest furniture retailer in the world with his no-frills designs, most notably the Billy bookcase that millions of frugal book ...

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The Billy bookcase is perhaps the archetypal Ikea product. It was dreamed up in 1978 by an Ikea designer called Gillis Lundgren who sketched it on the back of a napkin, worried that he would forget it ...