Avalinto didn't start with a sudden stroke of genius or a magical business plan. It started because we were frustrated with our own living room in Riga, Latvia.

We loved our IKEA Kallax for its practicality, but the open cubes felt chaotic, and the standard inserts available on the market didn't match the clean, premium aesthetic we wanted. We wanted our collection to look like it belonged in a high-end gallery, not a retail storage unit, but we couldn't justify throwing away perfectly good furniture just to buy expensive new cabinets.

Being stubborn about interior design, we decided to make the solution ourselves. We spent weeks measuring Kallax dimensions down to the millimeter, testing acrylic types, and ruining a lot of prototypes in our kitchen trying to get the perfect, tool-free snap fit.

Once we finally nailed a design that looked completely seamless, we realized this wasn't just our hyper-fixation—it was a massive gap in how people customize mass-produced furniture. Avalinto was built to bridge that gap

It all started just from the idea on how to make our own Kallax more premium.