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Making furniture live longer

The potential to repurpose, refurbish, repair, reuse, resell and recycle will be built into every IKEA product, step by step over the next coming years. Already today there are easy ways to make your furniture last longer or give it a second life.

IVAR chair painted light green standing on old news papers in an empty room with light wooden floor and light pink walls.
Video: A woman cleans a light-grey sofa arm, zips up a dark-grey cushion cover and then sits on the same sofa, now with a red cover.

Get that just-new feeling whenever you want by washing or replacing your sofa cover for very little cost or effort.

Video: As the camera pans over a neatly arranged display of IKEA spare parts, a hand reaches in and picks one up.

Give your used furniture a new lease of life with little cost or effort by using spare parts, tools and paints.