Four dresser designs that might have prevented the 29-million-unit Ikea recall
As part of a design challenge, Segal Design Institute engineering students devised four dressers that won't tip when children try to climb the drawers.
People want big kitchens, but aren’t really interested in having others over
The 2016 Houzz & Home survey has insights about home renovations in 2015. Kitchens remain a focal point, but dinner guests are few and far between.
A line of housewares made from recycled materials will soon be offered by Ikea
Beginning in 2017, the massive housing goods company Ikea plans on selling furniture made exclusively out of recycled plastic and recycled wood.
Skip Ikea’s terror-inducing mobs and shop at home in a VR showroom
On Tuesday, IKEA announced the release of a pilot virtual reality app, one that it has rather literally named the "IKEA VR Experience."
Ikea is considering shipping furniture with eco-friendly ‘Mushroom Packaging’ instead of Styrofoam
Ikea might start shipping its famous flat-pack furniture with eco-friendly, fungus-grown packaging instead of polystyrene, which harms the environment.
Your morning coffee could recharge you and your phone soon with Ikea’s Heat Harvest idea
It may still be nearly impossible to assemble, but Ikea furniture just might be the 21st-century breakthrough we've been waiting for.
Ikea turns kids’ artwork into toys for its charity campaign
Thousands of children submitted artwork to Ikea, and the retailer turned some of them into toys. It's all for charity.
Watching this robot fail at building IKEA furniture will make you feel better about yourself
Even robots struggle with constructing IKEA furniture.
In the kitchen of 2025, Ikea envisions tables that heat and cool, smarter sinks
IKEA collaborated with IDEO and several other design professionals to create Concept Kitchen 2025, the kitchen of the future.
Ikea’s newest furniture line can be assembled without any tools
Rather than forcing you to fiddle with a set of screws and an Allen wrench, Ikea's latest furniture line uses a tool-free system of slots and dowel rods
Ikea leads the solar revolution, adding panel sales to its stores in eight new countries
After successfully making residential solar panels more accessible to customers in Britain, IKEA is expanding its offering to eight new European countries
Hem delivers easy-to-build furniture you customize online
Hem, an upcoming ecommerce site from Fab, will will allow visitors to design and buy custom furniture pieces that often require zero tools to assemble
Update: Ikea may back off on IkeaHackers cease and desist, will discuss new solutions
Popular DIY furniture blog IkeaHackers.net was recently forced to shut down after Ikea issued a cease and desist order and threatened legal action.
Ikea just bought a massive wind farm in Illinois to power all of its US stores
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce its power consumption, Ikea just made a big investment in an Illinois wind farm.
Put down that Allen wrench, this furniture snaps together with magnets
The days of toiling with nuts, bolts, and confusing directions may soon be over if this line of innovative magnetic furniture catches on
Your next end table is just one download away from this open source collection
If you're sick of shopping around for the right furniture in your home, now you can just download a design and get the parts sent to you for assembly.
Ikea’s new augmented reality app superimposes furniture into your empty room
With the 2014 Ikea catalog, users can use the augmented reality app to test virtual furnitures in their home and see if the product matches with the room.
MIT designs autonomous robot that assembles IKEA furniture
A team of roboticists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a set of bots that can assemble flat pack furniture.
IKEA robot assembly assistant may just save you some blood, sweat, and tears
Italian researchers have decided enlisted the help of a robot assistant that can learn how to help build IKEA furniture without pre-programming movements.
