IKEA BILLY bookcase hacks are all about transforming the unit into a more personal, made-to-measure piece, with a coat of paint, some molding, and cabinet doors. 'The BILLY bookcase is an IKEA classic ...

The BILLY bookcase is a legend. One of IKEA's signature products, BILLY models remain in the company's catalog year after year - and it even has its own entry on Wikipedia. Many people love it; in ...

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Vintage IKEA homeware has become a design category of its own in recent years, and pioneering the trend is BILLY. Founded by Harry Stayt, BILLY started as an archive project five years ago and has ...

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 ...

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, ...

My 1940 rowhouse has great bones, like a beautiful brick fireplace and original hardwood floors, but it’s been up to me to add architectural details — all those charming, characterful touches that I ...

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 ...

The ubiquitous Ikea Billy bookcase, which has graced the walls of millions of first-time homeowners and apartment dwellers, turns 30 this week. The much copied, bought, sold and traded bookcase was ...

Return for a moment to the Ikea monkey, and what some wags rued was a missed chance for a great marketing tie-in by the Swedish furniture giant: “Even Darwin can assemble our Billy bookcase!” A staple ...