Customize your Ikea Ivar Shelves

Want to make your Ikea Ivar shelves a different width? Here's some easy steps to make it possible.

[dumfrog]

This is the fastest and smartest method I've found! Thank you :)

[ipercalisse]

You did it in 2 mins, man, im amazed

[loewenalia]

I wish you were selling these or loved closer so I could buy some. I need my shelves to be four inches shorter but I don't have the tools or skills to do this.

[aminzayani]

Cool video! Why didn't you print the piece of plastic on one of your printers and simply attach it to a piece of wood?

[heatherdede]

The shelf design changed about a year before this video was uploaded.

[CookyMonzta]

Excellent! Those shelf boards are too long, and I always thought they should have had a shelf of a size somewhere in the middle (25"), to go with their 17" and 33" boards...

...But they changed the inserts on the sides, about 2 years ago (2020). Gone is the plastic. When last I checked, they were steel or aluminum (I don't know exactly which). I only hope they didn't make them harder to pull out.

I have room enough for a bench, but not one for that saw (I have a Dremel saw); and I have a router and I have seen a router bit that can cut a slit that narrow into the side of that wood.

[connerjones]

Are the vertical sliding glass doors for 20 gallon longs available anymore?

[rachelwork]

What a lot of unnecessary work. Much easier to cut *any* piece of wood to the correct width/depth (the shelves supplied inside the IVAR cabinets are a perfect depth and are pre-finished) and just buy a pack of 6mm pins to hold the shelves — 4 for each shelf, using any of the IVAR pre-drilled holes. No need to replicate the fancy fixings…