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Ideas

This section is filled with tons of different home ideas, from home decoration ideas to organising tips to inspiration for making your home more green. So that you'll have all you need for creating a space that you love calling home.

Imagine being able to pack up your home and take it wherever you wanted. This family swapped their suburban apartment for a converted motorhome, with Mother Nature as their closest neighbour…

Extend your fashion credentials to your home! See how this fashion and lifestyle blogger has designed a bedroom that helps her get ready in style.

Everlasting evenings are here for everyone to celebrate. But what to do if you’re left in the city? Here’s what.

Find interior inspiration in new places. Step into this open-plan loft apartment, inspired by stylish bars and restaurants.

A good night’s sleep has a lot to do with how you prepare for it. We have some advice that will make you long for bedtime.

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…

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Life in the countryside has a different kind of pace. Discover how natural materials and conscious choices give this renovated farmhouse its sense of slow living.

The Red Dot results are in with a triple win for IKEA design! The winning products – multifunctional sofa platform DELAKTIG, portable music collection FREKVENS, and KUNGSBACKA, the first IKEA kitchen made from recycled wood and recycled plastic – will be awarded at the annual ceremony, held this month in Essen, Germany.

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Take inspiration from the colours and textures of the 1970s and bring a touch of vintage style to your home with these ideas for house plants.

Set a summery table with plants and exotic fruit, coordinated with coloured dinnerware and natural wood, to bring the season’s sunshine feeling indoors.

Get inspired by our simple tips on how to beat the heat at home without resorting to energy-draining fans or air conditioners.

Try this coordinated table-setting idea for a special occasion or to elevate an everyday meal.

Anyone with four walls knows that angles can be a challenge. But instead of wishing they could disappear – make them stand out. Here are a few ideas to let them take centre stage in any room.

Through a partnership with charity Breaking Barriers, IKEA is helping refugees find employment in the UK. Find out more about the project ahead of World Refugee Day on June 20.

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Take your dining room outdoors! This summer, connect with nature by enjoying laid-back mealtimes alfresco.

Try using greenery to decorate your home in different ways. House plants can soften the sharp lines of furniture and walls, and help divide an open-plan space into zones.

We often talk about air pollution outdoors, but what about the impact of air pollution inside the home? Get inspired by these tips for making some improvements.

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IKEA believes in a collaborative design process, from working with established designers and students to looking at new ideas like open source. ‘It’s smart thinking and togetherness that creates movements,’ says creative leader and range manager Karin Gustavsson.

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Get inspired by five tips on how to make small, dark or dead spaces appear bigger and brighter with mirrors.

Summer is on its way. Warmer days, shorter nights – the chance to open the doors and spend time outside. Here’s how!

Not everyone has outdoor space that works for gardening, but by turning your kitchen into a greenhouse you can share the joys of growing indoors with the whole family…

Get inspired by this summer’s two trending interior styles and learn how to create them at home.

We got creative with one of our most loved pieces of storage furniture by customising it to suit three different people and their passions. Which is your favourite?

Make it easy to enjoy the beauty of nature all year round with fake flowers. Whether it’s for a special occasion or an everyday decoration, follow these easy steps to make a DIY flower garland…

It’s time to switch off and breathe this summer. Escape the concrete jungle and welcome nature into your home with the new, earthy colours of the season. Here’s how…

Bring the outside in and create a relaxed nature-inspired setting to celebrate summer in the city, whatever the weather.

Transform your home into a relaxing escape from busy city life. Step into this high-rise apartment to see how a compact urban home can still feel calm and connected to nature.

Boost body and mind with these simple yet healthy recipe ideas, made from plant-based ingredients that you can grow at home…

You don’t need a lot of money or space to create a home that suits your lifestyle. See how two students turned their compact apartment into a sanctuary for wellbeing and nature…

Bring nature indoors during winter with evergreens, like eucalyptus. Here, Lilly in Austria shows us how to use this long-lasting, air-freshening plant to decorate your home.

Enjoy a better night’s sleep on HIDRASUND, the new natural range of mattresses from IKEA – made with organic materials for a healthier sleep environment.

When it comes to special occasions, we all want to throw the best party ever. Luckily, bigger and pricier doesn’t necessarily mean better. It’s about the company you keep, the atmosphere you set, and the small, unique touches that make your event feel special. And of course that final impression that seals the deal: the party favours.

When Lilly and Thomas moved into their apartment seven years ago, it was with future family in mind. ‘We knew we’d have kids here and wanted an open-plan layout to keep us close,’ says Lilly, a copywriter and blogger.

The way we use our homes constantly changes, so PLATSA, the new modular storage range, offers solutions for your bedroom, living room, hallway and that weird in-between space you don’t really know what to with. And it’s made to last. You can take it apart, move, rebuild and add to it as your needs change…

When Hester moved to a house by the English seaside, the surrounding colours and feel of the beach invited themselves inside too. ‘Sometimes your home picks a style for you!’

Put down the paintbrush, hammer and drill. You can completely transform the look and feel of your living room by changing the textiles. See how different your living room could look with a new sofa cover, curtains, rug, throws and cushions.

Got garden dreams but not the green thumbs to go along with it? We’ll show you how to get a lush garden feel without breaking out the gardening gloves. There’s a few tips and tricks involved but your neighbours will never know the difference.

Some kids are big on self-expression so why settle for a small table? Give your budding artist all the space they need and watch them fill it with creativity.

‘By the time spring comes around, I can’t wait to welcome it at home’, says stylist Carl Braganza. ‘Botanical drawings are a big trend for this year and a great way to breathe new life into the bedroom.’

Here’s a quick idea that we think could be super helpful. Instead of storing tableware in separate cupboards, why not keep everything on a trolley (like this bathroom version)? That way everything’s super easy to find when dinner time rolls around, plus you can roll it to and from the table just as easy too!

Henrik and his daughter, Ida (six), love cooking together at home. Step into their kitchen in Sweden to see how a few simple additions make it easy and safe for little ones to have fun helping out.

What makes a happy home? Inside this house are busy parents and small children, but at its heart are different spaces where the whole family can find time to relax. Step inside…

With a bit of imagination, a clever layout and multifunctional furniture, even the tiniest shared bedroom can be a great place to play. Stylist Sam Grigg showed one family that sharing doesn’t have to mean double the trouble – it can mean double the fun!

With growing, blended, or extended families, sometimes you need more bedrooms than you have. If you can’t fit more people into the bedrooms, try putting a bedroom into the living space.

In our opinion, the Kräftskiva (crayfish party) might just be the perfect event. Delicious food, totally festive, and a send-off to the best time of year. Oh, and super duper Swedish. Our interior designer Anna shows you below what we eat, how we pull it all together, and how you can, too (any time of year).

Reinvent a plain piece of furniture with a quick and easy makeover. All you need is some colourful washi tape to create your own graphic-inspired design. Crafter and blogger Hester shows us how…

How do you create a green space in the middle of a city? In part 1 we met Plantparken, an urban garden collective in Malmö, Sweden. In part 2, we picked up the spades, loaned a plot and got started ourselves. Now for the best part—the harvest!

Got garden dreams in the urban jungle? Let’s get them growing! When you’re short on flowerbeds and veggie patches our tip is to get clever with the space you have. Here’s five of our favourite ways for finding green areas where you think you might not have any.