IKEA Malm bedside tables x 2, Facebook Marketplace, £20 Good Home self-prime paint in Cancun shade, B&Q, £10 Paint brushes, B&Q, £3 Drawer design moulding, B&Q, £4.78 Skirting board adhesive ...

A two-draw unit of Malm drawers, commonly used as bedside tables, will cost £40 a piece brand new. Ikea will buy it back, if the condition is as new with no scratches, for £15.

A few years ago my friend Rachel went on a Malm purge. She’d spent her twenties stocking up on the unexciting (but inoffensive) Ikea furniture range, and – like so many of us – truly believed that ...

IKEA isn’t just a store. Some of life’s biggest milestones involve the Swedish megamart. When you move into your first share house, you better believe you’re buying the MALM bedside tables.

The Malm series clear-lacquered, birch-veneer headboard shelf set (below; HK$1,450; 169cm x 31cm x 77cm) accommodates bedside tables that roll out when needed and in when you don't want prying ...