IKEA Shares How To Make 6 Types Of Furniture Forts During Quarantine
If you’re quarantining with kids who are becoming increasingly bored, IKEA Russia has your back. The retailer has just released a new campaign, bringing back childhood adventures indoors.
Created by an agency called Instinct, the campaign consists of a set of instructions on how to build tents, castles, forts, and other cool structures to help you get through the pandemic.
Some people are already using them, and posting pictures of their play home with the hashtag #явдомикеикеа (which roughly translates to “I’m in an IKEA house”).
The “easy-to-follow” instructions (of course, your opinion may vary, especially if you’ve ever tried assembling an IKEA product) show how simple everyday items like blankets, bedspreads, chairs, and stools can be used to make a new hideaway. For example, Höuse requires a table, two blankets, eight books, and ten laundry pins. And the best thing about all of this is that you don’t need to use IKEA furniture, you can replace it with whatever is around.
Some people are already using the instructions
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This brings back so many memories of making pillow and blanket forts as a little kid. There's nothing comfier as a kid (or as an adult) than good ol' pillow fort.
My cat built his own pillow fort. 81FB88BE-1...d-jpeg.jpg 
It's a nice gesture, Ikea...But if people these days need instructions to make forts, society has failed.
Well, don't panic. Society hasn't fallen. It is an advertisement from IKEA. Notice how most of the materials are IKEA products. And they even managed to slip in the product names.
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I love this idea. I never would have added lights. Even fort designs progress. I remember when my mom did something like this: Shocked and pleasure all in one swoop For the Winter MacLaines in the world: I suspect thie intended audience is adults. Adults have to be reminded what it is like to be a child. I remember when my mom did something like this: Shocked and pleasure all in one swoop
When I was a kid, my mom would masking tape a broom & two mops together teepee style and throw a bedsheet over it. Those were the days...
Thank God for the pictures because as usual the instructions aren't in English.
Why would IKEA use Å, Ä and Ö to misspell words? Looks like some genius trying to be funny.
An Ikea Trebuchet made of particle board and coaster wheels.
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I want to do this but supposedly I'm "too old" for it... C'mon, you have to live life! I'm not TECHNICALLY an adult yet... My sister is like almost 20 so I have to reel her in before it's too late! XD
I think it’s wonderful. I’m nearly 60 and had forgotten some of these ideas from childhood. Now my granddaughters can look forward to doing something while stuck at home. Thank you.
I was the oldest of 3 girls and both our parents worked while e our grandmother took care of us.We grew up poor, but our parents got us each a king size blanket, 2 pillows each, a sheet, and a baby doll for Xmas in 1969. We made 1 fort, tore it down made 3 forts so we could pretend to visit each other, and we never got bored building, tearing down, and rebuilding our forts. The best thing that happened and we mever realized it till we were young adults is we were constantly being taught to use our imaginations and I really think parents need to start unplugging their children for at least an hour each day and make them learn how to use their imaginations and practice. As a parent today I see a lot of children that really don't know how to use the imaginations.
This is a super post for everyone. For myself it brings back so many memories of forts being built. My daughter (aka fort builder) might be inspired to show her daughter some advanced ideas and my grandaughter gets to play and laugh with her Mom. That's a win - win - win for us! Thanks so much for the ideas!
I think the strings of lights are a pretty stupid idea, might want to check with a couple safety experts. Even low wattage LEDs can break if stepped on etc. --- Outside of that pretty neat.
I think it’s cool as heck this is what they had their designers work on during quarantine to share with everyone
My dad made me a four poster bed when I was a kid. No canopy or fancy posts full of frill. Just straight up 2x2a I think and the same connecting them all around. I used to tack up tapestries, sheets, anything that i my mood felt. I loved that feeling. Ikea is just offering up some humor for those folks who always wait till Christmas Eve to assemble stuff for the very first time in their lives. These projects for hideaways from the demands of parents, distant learning, and total disruption in life we had become so complacent in, is the chance to do a project with family. Directions aren't set in stone. They are a base for those who dare to, take it to a whole different level. And it offers a place to go when kids, or moms, dads, pet just need to get a moment to gather their thoughts uninterrupted. Grabe a quick nap. A place to go where dreams don't die. I applaud ikea for looking out for that part of us that just needs a moment of our very own. To feel at home in this world.
You CAN use them without plugging them in u know
Load More Replies... Meet IKEA, the lovable corporation that buys from illegal logging companies to make unstable cheap shelves so that they can fall on small children. (Yeah, I know. The toddler body count of IKEA products are insane.)
TBH, the unstable shelves look rickety already in the photos, and feel so in the shop. Should not be a surprise if they turn out to be so. This one is sort of pointless to blame the manufacturer on. Assuming you are referring to the immoral (not illegal) logging in Karelia? Are they still doing it? Link please - all I could find was articles from a decade ago.
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I'd rather my kids developed their creativity and imagination by coming up with their own designs based on materials at hand. Keep your nose out of my parenting job Ikea and stick to making low-quality furniture.
Hope no one takes this photo example precisely. It's an electrocution waiting to happen! ikea-tents...7b9a78.jpg 
I absolutely would not hesitate to do this. Those do look like glass bulbs so I'd stay in the room, but for the normal plastic LED lights I'd leave the kids all day like that. No worries.
Load More Replies... This brings back so many memories of making pillow and blanket forts as a little kid. There's nothing comfier as a kid (or as an adult) than good ol' pillow fort.
My cat built his own pillow fort. 81FB88BE-1...d-jpeg.jpg
It's a nice gesture, Ikea...But if people these days need instructions to make forts, society has failed.
Well, don't panic. Society hasn't fallen. It is an advertisement from IKEA. Notice how most of the materials are IKEA products. And they even managed to slip in the product names.
Load More Replies... I love this idea. I never would have added lights. Even fort designs progress. I remember when my mom did something like this: Shocked and pleasure all in one swoop For the Winter MacLaines in the world: I suspect thie intended audience is adults. Adults have to be reminded what it is like to be a child. I remember when my mom did something like this: Shocked and pleasure all in one swoop
When I was a kid, my mom would masking tape a broom & two mops together teepee style and throw a bedsheet over it. Those were the days...
Thank God for the pictures because as usual the instructions aren't in English.
Why would IKEA use Å, Ä and Ö to misspell words? Looks like some genius trying to be funny.
An Ikea Trebuchet made of particle board and coaster wheels.
Load More Replies... I want to do this but supposedly I'm "too old" for it... C'mon, you have to live life! I'm not TECHNICALLY an adult yet... My sister is like almost 20 so I have to reel her in before it's too late! XD
I think it’s wonderful. I’m nearly 60 and had forgotten some of these ideas from childhood. Now my granddaughters can look forward to doing something while stuck at home. Thank you.
I was the oldest of 3 girls and both our parents worked while e our grandmother took care of us.We grew up poor, but our parents got us each a king size blanket, 2 pillows each, a sheet, and a baby doll for Xmas in 1969. We made 1 fort, tore it down made 3 forts so we could pretend to visit each other, and we never got bored building, tearing down, and rebuilding our forts. The best thing that happened and we mever realized it till we were young adults is we were constantly being taught to use our imaginations and I really think parents need to start unplugging their children for at least an hour each day and make them learn how to use their imaginations and practice. As a parent today I see a lot of children that really don't know how to use the imaginations.
This is a super post for everyone. For myself it brings back so many memories of forts being built. My daughter (aka fort builder) might be inspired to show her daughter some advanced ideas and my grandaughter gets to play and laugh with her Mom. That's a win - win - win for us! Thanks so much for the ideas!
I think the strings of lights are a pretty stupid idea, might want to check with a couple safety experts. Even low wattage LEDs can break if stepped on etc. --- Outside of that pretty neat.
I think it’s cool as heck this is what they had their designers work on during quarantine to share with everyone
My dad made me a four poster bed when I was a kid. No canopy or fancy posts full of frill. Just straight up 2x2a I think and the same connecting them all around. I used to tack up tapestries, sheets, anything that i my mood felt. I loved that feeling. Ikea is just offering up some humor for those folks who always wait till Christmas Eve to assemble stuff for the very first time in their lives. These projects for hideaways from the demands of parents, distant learning, and total disruption in life we had become so complacent in, is the chance to do a project with family. Directions aren't set in stone. They are a base for those who dare to, take it to a whole different level. And it offers a place to go when kids, or moms, dads, pet just need to get a moment to gather their thoughts uninterrupted. Grabe a quick nap. A place to go where dreams don't die. I applaud ikea for looking out for that part of us that just needs a moment of our very own. To feel at home in this world.
You CAN use them without plugging them in u know
Load More Replies... Meet IKEA, the lovable corporation that buys from illegal logging companies to make unstable cheap shelves so that they can fall on small children. (Yeah, I know. The toddler body count of IKEA products are insane.)
TBH, the unstable shelves look rickety already in the photos, and feel so in the shop. Should not be a surprise if they turn out to be so. This one is sort of pointless to blame the manufacturer on. Assuming you are referring to the immoral (not illegal) logging in Karelia? Are they still doing it? Link please - all I could find was articles from a decade ago.
Load More Replies... I'd rather my kids developed their creativity and imagination by coming up with their own designs based on materials at hand. Keep your nose out of my parenting job Ikea and stick to making low-quality furniture.
Hope no one takes this photo example precisely. It's an electrocution waiting to happen! ikea-tents...7b9a78.jpg
I absolutely would not hesitate to do this. Those do look like glass bulbs so I'd stay in the room, but for the normal plastic LED lights I'd leave the kids all day like that. No worries.
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