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Life starts in the kitchen

Whatever you cook, it all starts in the kitchen

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 film showing people in different kitchens preparing food, having dinner, doing homework, or just playing around having fun.
Mexican feast on round white VIHALS table with white IKEA 365+ plates, and transparent ripple-effect KLIPPLAX glasses.

Invite, enjoy, serve. Join in, there's plenty

The kitchen is the heart of the family. It’s where you eat together, play together and share the most meaningful conversations. Between cooking, laughing and dreaming, there’s always room for new ideas. Even the smallest kitchen can become a world full of inspiration.

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Play starts in the kitchen

As busy and stressful as the kitchen can be, it’s also a space where your kids’ curiosity naturally shines. The heart of the home is where their creativity and imagination can thrive – a place full of exciting opportunities to learn and grow. Whether bonding over family recipes, experimenting with new ingredients, or sharing playful moments, the kitchen is where lifelong skills and memories are made. So, let your little ones be part of the action.

A grown-up with a party hat is holding a KALAS bowl with sweets. A child sitting on their shoulders reaches for the sweets.
A tabletop with a chopping board holding green and orange UPPFYLLD fruit cutters, surrounded by fruits and bowls of berries.
A child wearing a chef’s hat and an apron is standing by a grey SILLTRUT kitchen for children, stirring a pot on the hob.
A child is sitting on a yellow kitchen floor, drumming with wooden spoons on IKEA 365+ cookware spread out on the floor.
A family of three spending time together in a modern white kitchen with a high ceiling and large, brightly covered tiles.

Life is messy, and we’re here for it

We design kitchens and products to handle real life – the messiness, chaos, and unpredictability of it all. From sticky hands to stubborn pasta sauce stains, we create products that make everyday life easier.

Take the ANTILOP highchair, for example. For over 30 years, it’s been keeping the most important people in the home safe and secure. Not only does it meet the highest safety standards, but it’s also as easy to keep clean as it is to love.

A toddler sitting in a highchair is happily eating spaghetti with tomato sauce. The highchair and the toddler get very messy.
An empty highchair with tray in a white space. The remains of a messy spaghetti meal cover the highchair and floor.

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.

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.

Dreams start in the kitchen

The kitchen is the heart of the family. It’s where you eat together, play together and share the most meaningful conversations. Between cooking, laughing and dreaming, there’s always room for new ideas. Even the smallest kitchen can become a world full of inspiration.

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“If there’s room in your heart, there’s always room for one more.”
Traditional Swedish saying