Our Fauxdenza Ikea Hack

Awhile back I had shared, on instagram, photos of the progress on our master bedroom "fauxdenza" and when asked, almost all of you wanted me to post a tutorial, so Here it is!

I've been making over our master bedroom and doing so, meant moving around some furniture. The dresser we have is not large and worked better in another area of the room but that also meant losing the "tv stand". We needed more storage and somewhere for the tv to sit which is when i came up with the credenza situation. I didnt want two seperate dressers in the room, especially ones that didnt even match, so our floating credenza was born.

The cabinets we used are the Sektion top fridge cabinets by IKEA. We purchased 2 of them for this project. The assembly of these is pretty straightforward and instructions will come in the box so i don't think i need to dive into much detail there. I KNOW how much everyone loves putting together Ikea furniture! After the cabinets are assembled, you'll have to figure out how high you want them on the wall. We chose to place ours about 18 1/2 inches from the floor and i wouldn't go much higher than that. We would have probably gone just a bit lower if we were doing this in the living room but since we were placing the tv on it, we needed it high enough to see when in bed.

Being the genius that i am, I failed to save the photos of when we first started the project so you're going have to deal with a photo from my insta stories (sorry!)

Once we had them hung on the wall we were able to start framing it with wood. Because we were doing this on a budget, we went with cheaper wood. Mastercraft has Pine boards that work great for these projects so we picked some up at our local menards. But if youre able to go with something more expensive, go for it!

The boards we purchased did not come in the exact length and width needed so we did have to cut them down width wise to fit the ikea cabinets properly. We also left a slight overhang on each end so that we could joint the side boards together, underneath the top board. Once the boards were cut to proper length, I stained them with one layer of Varathane wood stain in provencial and then darkened it up a touch with one light layer of the espresso stain.

We then sealed it with a coat of fast drying clear satin polyurethane to keep it protected. The brand we used was minwax but any kind will do. Below are some progress shots and the finished credenza!