Ideas

When it comes to bringing the whole family together, there’s no better place to make it happen than the dining table. Keep everyone happy with their own activities, and just enjoy the company.

Keep it simple to create a bedroom that reflects your personality and comforts you. Find inspiration for textiles and displays from this snug and personal bedroom.

The beautiful new HAVSTA range is designed to take storage to the next level. It’s versatile enough to use in any space, plus you can mix and match the units. Here are 3 reasons to build your perfect solution.

The brief? Update a shared kids’ bedroom by adding smart and affordable storage solutions and imaginative ways to play. The result? Two very excited children!

If you suddenly find yourself with friends or family members who temporarily need to move into your small space, don’t worry. We’ve got some clever tips to make their stay a joy for all.

Live in a shared building? Make getting together with your neighbours easier by bringing life to unloved communal spaces. Hannah Matthews, who lives in a co-living collective, shows us how…

Take a relaxed approach to hosting and get everyone together more often. With simple table decor, you’ll spend less time decorating and more time enjoying your guests’ company.

Play makes the world bigger for children and adults; it sparks infinite possibilities and contributes to a better everyday life at home. Lose yourself in play with the new LUSTIGT collection of toys and games.

Hannah Matthews and her partner Blaine are temporary residents, or property ‘guardians’, of an industrial building that’s also home to six other people. Step inside their pop-up apartment…

The start of each new season brings a welcomed opportunity to hit the reset button, giving your home a fresh look. Here’s Part I of our favourite trends for fall.

For six years IKEA has been forming partnerships with skilled artisans through its social entrepreneur initiative to create limited-edition collections and much-needed jobs. VÄLGÖRANDE is a new, unique range available in select countries now.

The limited-edition SAGOSKATT soft toy collection is back, and it’s packed full of colourful characters ready to join playtime. Our soft toy drawing competition attracted 87,000 entries from children around the world, and we’ve made a handful of them into real-life toys.

Embrace the Swedish tradition of ‘fika’ this winter and take time out to enjoy good company and great coffee!

Can a well-ordered kitchen still leave room for personality? Find inspiration from the hide-and-display ideas in this organised cooking space.

Jurij and Konstancja renovated their derelict tenement apartment to create a flexible and functional home that complements their lifestyle. The key for this pair of interior designers? Good organisation.

The things we choose to put on display can say a lot about who we are and what we hold dear. Here’s how to create three shelving spaces that combine convenient storage and a unique sense of personality.

Everyone starts the day in their own unique way. So set yourself up for your own version of success with a bedroom that meets your unique needs.

Moving to this attic apartment gave the owners more space. Rather than fill each inch, they took a minimal approach, furnishing around what they needed to live well and adding pieces with family history. Take a tour and see what you gain when you live with less…

Different activities call for different types of lighting, so make sure your space is designed to fit your unique needs. Here’s how to  light the way.

Taking a tea break, or several a day, is the perfect opportunity to clear your mind and reflect. This is why the new range of IKEA teas is called EGENTID, which translates from Swedish as ‘time on your own’. The soothing flavours are all natural and UTZ-certified.

Discover the new VINTER 2018 collection, full of accessories to help you enrich your Christmas traditions.

Need to work but struggling to focus? A personalised, well-ordered desk area can inspire you to start a project and complete it! Take a look at Dagmara’s workspace for ideas that balance focus and fun.

Tame living-room clutter by building your storage around the new-look BESTÅ system. Its modular design lets you plan a layout that’s perfect for your space, and the choice of doors and legs mean you can customise to your style. It’s the perfect make-it-yours solution!

Make space for you by turning your bedroom into somewhere to restore a sense of order and harmony.

Bring comfort in this September. We’re welcoming in autumn with natural materials, soft textures and light colours.

We’ve got the latest inspiration for fall. Interior designer Linda Åhman shows how easy it is to bring two trending styles into your home. Come on in...

When asked, 32% of us admitted to having things at home that we hide from others. Take pride in your stuff! Use the new SAMMANHANG range to organise and display the things you love.

Break the home-furnishing rules and express your own identity with SJÄLVSTÄNDIG, a new limited collection designed to set your style free!

Choosing to live sustainably is kind of like making a New Year’s resolution. You give something up, probably because it’s not 100% good for you (like chocolate). After a couple of months you’re back to your old ways. You maybe consume even more. We think the secret to success could be making small, doable changes (like just cutting back on that chocolate) and reminding yourself that every little bit helps. Here are seven small ways to live more sustainably and simply this summer. No sacrifices required.

When designer, painter and piano teacher Justin showed us round his apartment, he explained that he likes every room to be multipurpose. ‘I sometimes eat at my kitchen bar or use it for snacks when I have friends round,’ says Justin. ‘It also doubles as a workstation. Every space is an opportunity to create and to share.  If your home is flexible, it gives you so much more.’ 

This spring, the first IKEA store will open in India. As well as a fresh experience for customers, IKEA will also offer a way of working with a focus on gender equality.

How does it look behind your sofa? For most of us it’s a wall or an empty space to hide from horror movies, which (useful though it is!) got us thinking about ways to make behind the couch a bit more practical using loads of storage and different “zones” in IKEA speak. Here’s a couple of zones we like from a living room featured in this years catalogue.

When a team from IKEA in Portugal wanted to test out the new METOD kitchen range, they knew they couldn’t do better than getting a cook’s stamp of approval. So they helped Maria, who runs a catering business from her home in old-town Lisbon, give her tired kitchen a clever update that’s full of character. Here’s the result...

What to do when a dinner party is high on your agenda, but you’re low on square footage? That’s just the dilemma Mia Johansson faced in her smalll studio apartment in Kalmar, Sweden.

Houseplants can make a home feel more peaceful and alive. They add colours and textures, too. Get growing with our tips about the basics—and plants that’ll always survive.

As kids get older they often want to spend more time doing their own thing, but you still want time together as a family. Making two living rooms in one could be the answer.

We all have pieces of furniture that we get tired of. And we usually look to change them somehow – paint them, deconstruct them, decorate them. But what if we changed our perspective instead? That’s what blogger Agnes Hammar of Hej Regina helped us do. She joined us in the lab to show us that we don’t necessarily need to fix the furniture – maybe we just need to freshen up what’s around it instead.

‘I love this place,’ says architecture student Marloes. ‘I wanted it to be calm, sociable and welcoming – and it is!’ Not easy to achieve in a small flat, but by using an open-wardrobe system as a room divider and home office, Marloes keeps the kitchen connected to her living area to create a multifunctional space. ‘Yes it’s small, but it’s just the way we want it!’

Whether you have one room or a whole floor of unused space in your home, it has the potential to make you some extra money. Get tips from this flexible holiday-rental space…

IKEA is staging a play revolution, and not just for kids. It’s backed by one of the world’s largest ongoing research studies of play – the Play Report. Read all about it…

Look outside for inspiration – and ingredients! – for a seasonal table setting. When Gina in Norway invited us round for her special winter stew, nature gave her a hand with the decoration.

It’s much easier to relax when you’re exactly where you want to be, doing what you want to do. But that doesn’t mean you can’t all still be together. From sofas to support for your laptop, we’ve got the knacks you need to relax all together, while doing your own thing.

Living in a rental apartment can mean putting up with a lot of things (noisy neighbours, grumpy landlords, unruly roommates...). But a wall full of stains, cracks, or holes left behind by past tenants shouldn’t be one of them. So we invited blogger Agnes Hammar of Hej Regina to our Ideas lab to help us find five ways to turn all those unsightly features into things you actually want to look at. Here’s what she came up with.

Blogger Mona has arranged her home office so that she feels inspired and can stay on top of her many projects. ‘It’s important for me to have a good overview of my work and materials,’ she says. A mix of open and closed storage, labels and inspiring displays help. ‘Being organised allows me to work calmly and efficiently.’

 ‘Artificial flowers look really authentic these days,’ says IKEA decoration range communicator Anna Ohlin. ‘So you can create a fantastic and long-lasting display at a lower cost than that of buying real blooms. Be as creative as you dare!’  

Need some fresh (but simple) decorating tips? Well, lucky you, because our stylists just happen to be sitting on mountains of awesome ideas. And Majken Fokdal Persson is here to give you some pointers for creating an easy still life with vases.

Everyone deserves a superhero to help out in the kitchen. And even if you don’t have one, here are some supersmart tips to make kitchen work easier and more fun.

Get a sense of the season’s trending interior styles and learn how to bring them into your home. Here we focus on materials and form – see Part I for more on textiles and patterns.