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Home Improvement | Home Improvement

35 Best IKEA Furniture Hacks - DIY Projects Using IKEA Products

These furniture makeovers transform basic IKEA products into practical home staples.

Architecture & Interior Design | Decorating & Interior Design

8 of the Best (and Easiest) IKEA Hacks We Spotted This Year | Apartment Therapy

These types of IKEA "hacks" are the perfect combo of affordable and fast to do. So easy, they barely register as a hack.

Family & Parenting | Kids

The Best New IKEA Products for Kids!

From arts and crafts to toy and furniture, we found the best new products for kids at IKEA.

Miscellaneous | Other Kinds of Whatnot

Cops shut down massive 3,000-person game of hide-and-seek at Ikea

More than 3,000 people planned a giant game of hide-and-seek at an IKEA store in Scotland — but a team of police officers weren’t playing around and broke up the fun, according to a reports. Revelers planned to turn the sprawling furniture chain in Glasgo

Family & Parenting | Kids

IKEA Store Life Hacks

These cheap items from IKEA will change your life.

Architecture & Interior Design | Architecture & Interior Design

How to Make a Bedroom Look Expensive With $200 at IKEA

Shop a home editor's IKEA bedroom edit. Here's exactly how to make a bedroom look expensive without spending more than $200 at the Swedish retailer.

News | Interesting Stories

This IKEA Recall Is Actually Pretty Terrifying

A recent IKEA ceiling light recall comes with a serious safety hazard that could impact your entire family—literally.

Miscellaneous | Guy Stuff

Creative dudes snap Ikea Tinder photos

Snapping the ideal Tinder profile photo is a difficult art. Luckily, your local Swedish furniture retailer is available for a tasteful backdrop. Imgur user keventure's friends wanted new material for their Tinder profiles — something to make them stand out in a sea of fishing pics and poorly lit selfies. So they headed to IKEA.

Family & Parenting | Parenting

One Dad Hacked Ikea To Make The Ultimate Kids' Bed On The Cheap

Savvy dad Eric Strong didn't want to spend thousands on a new bed for his young son, who had outgrown a regular crib. Promising his son "the coolest bed ever," Strong came up with an epic Ikea hack that resulted in the ultimate kids' bed: a lofted mattress, a ball-and-pulley play system, a secret chamber with a lookout window, and one seriously sneaky trap door escape

Architecture & Interior Design | Decorating & Interior Design

10 Ways to Design with Ikea Furniture | Dwell

The Swedish retailer celebrates 30 years in the U.S. today. We've gathered 10 examples of Ikea beds, cabinets, and tables in modern interiors.

Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace

75% Of Ikea’s Catalog Is Computer Generated Imagery!!!

You could have fooled us. Wait, actually, you did. The best special effects are often the ones you never notice--which may make Ikea the most skillful special effects studio in the world. The Swedish furniture company has been aggressively ramping up its use of computer generated imagery in their catalogs. Ikea's first CG photo was a Bertil pinewood chair in 2006. By 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported that 25% of their products were CG. Today, that figure has ballooned to 75%.

Miscellaneous | Other Stories

16 Out-of-Context IKEA Instructions to Help You Live a Better Life

Taken out of context, certain pages from IKEA instruction books can be interpreted as guides to living a fuller and more satisfying life.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Photographer Documents Customers Snoozing at Chinese Ikeas

Try it before you buy it.

Or, if you're in one of China's Ikea stores, fall fast asleep on a bed in a display room.