Amazing and Clever Ikea Mini Drawers (Moppe) Hacks
Moppe is the name Ikea gives to those cute unfinished birch desktop draws.
I don’t know why they call them that. I put Moppe into google translate and it didn’t come up with anything of meaning so I just think it’s one of those random Swedish words Ikea give their stuff.
Whatever you call it the Ikea Moppe is a handy piece of furniture and great fun to hack.
The Ikea mini drawers of the Moppe are so useful that I have a three of these around my house. One sits on my desk in the study. Another is in the hardware cupboard for storing screws and nails.
There is even one on the bookcase in the lounge for random little stuff I find lying around the house that even though I’m not sure what it is it looks too important to throw away.
So far I have only managed to hack two of these Moppes so I’m on the lookout for a creative hack for the third.
See if you can decide which one is your favourite, becuase I can’t pick one!
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20 Unique and creative ways hack Ikea mini drawers.
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1. Ikea Moppe Map Hack with leather pulls – Pillarboxblue.
This is actually one of my own (Ikea Moppe) hacks and it does look very handsome in the study. Mind you put a map on anything and it looks great. The leather pulls on these mini drawers are a stylish finishing touch.
2. Moppe DIY Card Catalog – AKA Design
The crackled paint finish on this Moppe Ikea mini drawers hack is amazing. I love the little labels too!
3. IKEA Moppe Hack Apothecary Cabinet – Interior Frugalista
The legs on this apothecary Ikea Moppe hack turn it into a much bigger piece of furniture. That combined with the white paint certainly give it a French shabby feel.
4. Ikea Moppe Hack – Cord and chrager organizer – Blueistyle.
Now I need one of these in my life, well my kitchen. What a brilliant use of mini drawers for a cool charging station organizer.
5. Fabric Covered Ikea Moppe Hack for Craft Room – Zwergenstoffe
I love the colourfulness of the fabric covered drawer fronts with there mini chests. The way they are hung on the walls in the craft room is really sweet too!.
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6. Wallpaper decoupaged Ikea Moppe Hack – handmadekultur
What a cool choice of wallpaper for this decoupaged Moppe mini drawers hack.
7. Vintage decoupaged Ikea mini drawers hack – liveinternet
If you think this vintage bird graphic decoupaged chest is gorgeous, you should check out the other mini drawers hacks on this Russian site. There are some really lovely ones.
8. Chalkboard Ikea Mini Drawers – kreativfieber
This is a very simple Ikea hack with chalkboard paint. Great for craft room organisation.
9. Ikea Moppe and Bekvam Stool Combination – handundfuss
Now this is a unique hack mashing the Ikea Bekvam footstool with an Ikea Moppe for a minamilist piece of Scandi furniture.
10. Ikea Mini Draws House – schweizergarten
How freaking adorable is this. These shop fronts remind me of the ones in the old town part of Bergen, Norway where my in laws are from.
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11. Retro style Mini drawers hack – Curbly
Lovely the retro styling with these Ikea mini drawers. The colours are perfect, and I didn’t know you could get hairpin legs that small. These hacked mini drawers would also work really well with an Ikea Moppe.
12. Channel Ikea Moppe hack – Funkynality
This maybe a bit bling for me, but it is a fabulously unique Ikea Moppe mini drawers hack. Definately the pimp for those after that high end designer look.
13 Geometeric double Ikea Moppe mini drawers hack – helloctober
This is a great geometric paint job on this double Moppe Ikea mini drawers chest.
14. Vintage decopaged mini drawers – galadreams
How about a steampunk vibe? The different vintage pattern papers and labels really give these mini drawers set an interesting look.
15.Chest of Drawers with Ikea Moppe – Solebich
This is on a German blog and all I can find is the picture. Even thought there is no tutorial, I had to show it as it’s a fantastic piece of modern furniture.
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16. Stlyish Ikea Moppe wall chest of drawers – akicsihaz
Wow! This is an unusual and stylish Moppe hack for a hallway.
17. Antique Moppe Mini Drawers – Meinfeinstaub
Love the antique staining and gorgeous handles on this moppe for a museum like look.
18. Simple Geometric Ikea Moppe Hack – Arstect
Sometimes simple is all you need, like with this Moppe mini drawer hack.
19. Rainbow mini drawers chest – Style-files
Again all I have is a picture, but what a picture. These are absolutely gorgeous, all that lovely colour.
20. DIY Moppe Chest of Drawers – Roomilicious
This chest of drawers on casters is fabulous and love the black on white dots.
21. Luxurious Velvet IKEA Moppe hack – Pillarboxblue
These are drawers were the old style IKEA Moppe, but the principles are the same. Velvet gives the drawers a lovely glam Boho vibe. I love the little tag labels on each drawer.
After looking at all these Moppe mini drawers, I still can’t decide what to do with my third Moppe. I think I will buy some more and construct a new piece of furniture with them.
Perhaps do a bit of an Ikea mash-up with some other Ikea furniture. Watch this space!
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Jannicke Hellberg
11th August 2017 at 6:22 pmI love these Ikea-hacks! As a swede I can give the translation of Moppe. Moppe is slang for the swedish word Moped, which is the same as the english word Moped. Who would have guessed? 😊
Claire Armstrong
11th August 2017 at 7:04 pmThank you and thanks for the translation. 😆 My mother in law is Norwegian and I’ve noticed that a lot of Norwegian words are similar to Northern English, maybe something to do with the Vikings!
Susan Lommer
1st May 2019 at 9:23 pmNah, moppe in Danish means mop. 😀 😉
Claire Armstrong
2nd May 2019 at 10:05 amThank you. It probably is the same in Swedish and Norwegian then too.
Samantha @ sammyapproves.com
27th April 2017 at 7:46 pmI love seeing all these Ikea furniture hacks. If only we had an Ikea store where we lived. Thanks for joining the Family Joy Link Party!
Claire Armstrong
27th April 2017 at 9:39 pmThank you so much! I thought Ikea was everywhere but obviously not!
debbie
25th April 2017 at 7:26 pmWhat a superb collection of “moppe” drawers. You are correct, I can’t pick a favorite. I love the really antique looking one with the file drawer pulls multicolor but I also love the one with the vintage labels…then on the other spectrum I love the modern painted ones. Such a great inspiration for paining any furniture! Thank you for sharing at TADA! Thursdays.
Claire Armstrong
25th April 2017 at 7:35 pmThank you! The possibilities seem endless it is hard to choose!. They are great fun to upcycle and play around with as they are so small it’s not as much effort as tackling a full sized chest of draws.
STEPHANIE ABBOTT
23rd April 2017 at 10:57 amI love all of them! Thanks for sharing at To Grandma’s House We Go.
Claire Armstrong
23rd April 2017 at 4:37 pmThank you, Moppes are fun to hack.
Charlene
21st April 2017 at 8:00 pmThank you for sharing these great Ikea ideas with us at Family Joy Blog Link Up Party! Love them all!
Claire Armstrong
21st April 2017 at 10:17 pmThank you!
Carol ("Mimi")
21st April 2017 at 2:27 pmThese makeovers are so imaginative and creative. It’s like the Ikea mini-drawers provide a blank canvas for talented artists to create their own flights of fancy. Thanks for posting this collection.
Claire Armstrong
21st April 2017 at 10:17 pmThank you, yes they are great fun to play around with.
Funkynality
20th April 2017 at 6:03 pmHi!
I did that Chanel-version of Moppe. I think that particular one was my fourth remake of Moppe. (Moppe is slang for moped. Swedish as I am and as IKEA is… 😉
I haven’t been blogging that much this last year but if you look at my DIY’s in my blog, you’ll see at least a few more Moppe/Fira/Mackis makeovers and see if that can inspire you with your makeover. Although, my Chanel is the most reblogged and retweeted of them all.
Good Luck
Claire Armstrong
20th April 2017 at 9:02 pmYour Chanel version of the Moppe is very unique. I will check out your other Moppe hacks. Thank you!
Caroline
19th April 2017 at 5:48 amI love those ideas must admit have some of the Ikea sets in my workroom but only painted them plain green
Claire Armstrong
19th April 2017 at 10:35 amThank you. I bet they still look good, painting them is the simplest way to do them up. But I do love the fun some people have had with the Moppe, it’s amazing how creative they can be.
Julie
17th April 2017 at 3:50 pmOur daughter has some of these and I’ve still not actually done anything about making them pretty! I’ve always loved your map version but I’m loving that geometric one number 18 too.
Claire Armstrong
17th April 2017 at 6:09 pmThank you Julie. There are some great ideas out there, I’m tempted by the geometric one too!