IKEA Unveils Affordable Homes – New ‘Flat-Pack’ Home

Guest Blogger #434, Entry #1051, March 29, 2012

Known for their flat-pack wardrobes and beds, Swedish Furniture firm IKEA have teamed up with an architectural firm from Oregon called Ideabox to launch a new kind of flat pack.

Rendering showing Flatpack exterior

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This will probably take a little longer than a Sunday afternoon to knock up and be a little more expensive than a chest of drawers from IKE, but if you can’t afford your own home, you could go for a cheaper option; a prefabricated $86,500 ‘flat-pack’ home called the Aktiv. It’s certainly a Swedish themed home, is a one bedroom home and it’s centered around space-saving furniture and products, presumably from IKEA, too.

Ikea Flatpack interior view

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The properties are designed to be eco-friendly and with a prefabricated home that you can pretty much pop up almost anywhere you want, you can’t really get more eco-friendly than that. On the plus side, the houses are fitted with ‘green’ facilities like a dual-flush toilet and energy-star electronics.

Jim Russell, the President of Ideabox has said that the complete home ‘brings all of the fun and design of Ideabox houses together with all the function, design and personality of IKEA’. You won’t need to worry about furnishing the house either; they are kitted out with a complete IKEA package with flooring, wardrobes and cabinets in it.

You may need to buy a new radiator or two for your house or for the en-suite bathroom which your ‘flat packed’ house will also include. The bathroom will obviously come with IKEA’s own bathroom furniture, but what’s stop you making changes to it?

If you would like to have a look around for some new bathroom furniture then you should pay a visit to www.bestbathrooms.com and see what they can offer you.

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