A £12 IKEA highchair has been transformed in 4 easy steps

Let us introduce you to this easy IKEA hack you can do to the IKEA highchair (yes, the £12 one!) that you might just fall in love with immediately. We have! If you are searching for a handsome highchair but don't fancy splurging hundreds of pounds, then we get it. It's no secret that we have a penchant for IKEA hacks, even more so now that we've seen this IKEA high chair DIY...

First of all, get yourself to IKEA and buy one of their Antilop highchairs for just £12. Then, here is where the fun starts. Head to Cove Baby's Etsy shop and get shopping for anything from stickers to placemats and cushion inserts for your boring – but soon-to-be fancy – highchair. This small business stocks everything you need, to transform this otherwise plain white highchair, turning it from drab to fab and colourful, for less than £100. 

We're talking placemats in all different colours, to make their tabletop a little prettier – and their dinners that more Instagrammable. Then, there are stickers for the highchair legs to transform them from silver to bamboo or another wood effect. Keep scrolling for cushion inserts for this cheap high chair, to not only make this a more comfortable seat for your little one, but to add some sort of pattern into the mix. They also stock adjustable footrests to hold teeny feet and stop them from hanging down. That and plenty more.

What are you waiting for? Gone are the days when highchairs were expensive, clearly. And this IKEA hack might just be the easiest of them all. No paintbrushes, loud drilling or extensive toolboxes are involved. Just the tough job of choosing colours and patterns to blend in with your home decor.

Don't miss our best highchair guide if you're no good at DIY.

Ikea highchair DIY in 4 steps

All you'll need ahead of this IKEA highchair DIY, is the IKEA Antilop highchair. 

• Buy the IKEA Antilop highchair from IKEA
• Buy the IKEA Antilop highchair from Amazon

1. Start with the placemat

The first (and easiest) way to spruce up this simple highchair is by buying a placemat from Cove Baby. There are several neutral colours to choose from, and you'll want to make sure this matches their wipeable cushion (next up!).

In terms of colour options, there's everything from Sage Green to Dusky Rose, Sand, Apricot, Clay and Graphite up for grabs. 

2. Then, the wipeable cushion

This wipeable cushion ticks all our boxes since it's pretty and practical. It will make this high chair smaller, so fit for tiny humans, as well as more comfortable. If you live with a messy eater, then the clue is in the name that it's easy to wash.

Available in several prints and patterns from floral to dotted and terrazzo, be sure to match this with your placemat.

3. Next up are the legs

Cover those unsightly silver legs of this IKEA highchair with ease thanks to these stickers. Simply just wrap them around each leg and you're sorted. They come in lots of prints, from a bamboo effect to a beech wood effect plus more. This is the cheapest item you can buy for this IKEA highchair hack.

(Image credit: Cove Baby)

4. Last but not least, a footrest

Buy an adjustable footrest for this IKEA highchair to encourage them to sit upright, and to make this highchair comfortable for dangling legs. You'll secure it into place with two o-rings (included), and you can adjust the height as they grow taller.

This adjustable rest comes in bamboo wood or beech wood.

(Image credit: Cove Baby)

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Will you be buying this IKEA highchair and giving it a personalised makeover? We say why not. What a brilliant IKEA hack, and an easy one, too.