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This is where life is cooking

The kitchen isn’t just a room – it’s the heart of the home, where life happens. It’s where work meets play, homework gets tackled, dreams take shape, and conversations flow.

Here, we fuel ourselves with more than just food – we feed our connections. Gathering with family and friends, sharing everything from our smallest worries to our biggest dreams. A space for advice, tears, laughter, celebrations, and singing off-key.

We believe that a kitchen isn’t just a place to cook – it’s where everything that matters begins.

A mum and dad stand in the kitchen looking at the table where their three children are sitting enjoying breakfast.

Make kitchen time quality time

In the rough and tumble of everyday life, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the endless to-do lists. And there is lot that has to get done in the kitchen and around the table. However, the kitchen can be a source of joy, especially if you get the whole family involved. This is the perfect place to play and learn – to get messy, get creative and to explore new things. A place for long languid breakfasts, lots of laughter and delicious days full of precious moments.

Create a traditional dining space for carefree socialising
A smiling dad and his teenaged daughter sitting at the breakfast table clink their glasses of orange juice together.
A family of five, viewed from above enjoying a leisurely breakfast around their large white dining table.
Create a traditional dining space for carefree socialising

Connection starts at the table

Life’s worth celebrating, and where better to do it than gathered around the table? Throw some grub together, set the table, and summon the tribe. Pull up a chair, a stool, a log- whatever’s at hand. Who cares if nothing matches? It’s time for connection, not perfection.

Discover now how to design your festive table perfectly!
In still images, long tables of different sizes are pushed together to make one long, welcoming dining table for a large get-together. It's laid for a meal and is lined with an assortment of chairs, stools and benches of different shapes and sizes.
Discover now how to design your festive table perfectly!

Connection starts in the kitchen

Preparing food together and sharing a meal is one of the simplest yet most meaningful ways to connect with family and friends. It’s where we celebrate, share cultures, talk about the tough stuff, and enjoy each other’s company.

And you don’t need the perfect setting to make these moments happen. Forget about matching chairs or following formal rules. In Sweden, we hold a saying close to our hearts: “Finns det hjärterum, så finns det stjärterum,” meaning, “If there’s room in your heart, there’s always room for one more.” Let’s choose connection over perfection. Your kitchen is a place to feed your heart and soul.

Ideas for your communal kitchen
Four people are preparing for a meal in a lively kitchen. One person leans over a white VIHALS table, placing food on it.
A tattooed arm is holding a dark grey IBBARBO stool in the air, reaching it over to a hand about to grab it.
A smiling person in a brown shirt is holding a beige STOCKHOLM 2025 serving bowl with food, about to place it on a table.
Four people at a table, each holding an IKEA 365+ goblet filled with drinks, reaching towards one another for a toast.
A person sits on a kitchen worktop, looking at another person facing the worktop with a RINNIG tea towel in the back pocket.
Ideas for your communal kitchen