About a month ago Comfort Woks launched custom covers for Ikea’s EKERKOG Sofa, NIKKALA Sofa and KLIPPAN Sofa.

Now I really want an Ikea sofa just to buy some of the lovely covers, I would even buy one for each season!

And for those who still need help with the KRAMFORS Leather Sofa, Comfort Works found the solution:

As promised, we have found a solution to the Kramfors Problem. We are now able to make covers for the leather Kramfors, without destroying the original upholstery. We have also made the covers non-slip by pre-attaching Velcro to the slipcovers.

A while ago, Ikea launched a new website called LIVE where you can find tips, ideas and inspiration for you home.

All the interior have been created by home furnishing specialist, like you an me, who know how to make their homes look and work better. Ikea offers the stuff to use and they make the great combinations creating nice, functional and affordable spaces.

Get inspired with interior from around the world thanks to LIVE.

The concept is a student project from Andy Fisher, who recently graduated. The iPhone application would allow customers to use their images to add Ikea furniture to a room and send it to friends.

Thanks to the Help! KRAMFORS Sofa post, and specially to Nev’s comment, we found out that there is an Australian company specialized in Ikea Sofa Covers.

At Comfort Works you will find custom covers for Ikea’s KARLANDA Sofa, EKTORP Sofa and KRAMFORS Sofa. You can also choose among a great selection of solid, pattern, stripe and floral fabrics. It’s going to be very hard to just pick one!

And the best part is that slipcovers on models like NIKKALA, EKERKOG and KLIPPAN are on its way.

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The Vienna Furniture Museum presents The Ikea Phenomenon, an exhibition about Ikea, not by Ikea, that pays tribute to a phenomenon that has changed our lifestyles with mass produced designs in a way that nobody else has ever managed.

The exhibition shows Ikea furniture designs from the 1950s to the present and examples of international and Scandinavian design that served Ikea as inspiration.

Here are some interesting/curious facts I read on the press release:

IKEA was founded in 1943 by the then 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad. To begin with he sold stationary, stockings and other everyday items, and only added furniture to his stock in 1948. The name IKEA is an acronym comprising the founder’s initials and the first letters of his father’s farm, Elmtaryd and his Swedish hometown, Agunnaryd. It was in the 1970s that the business began its transformation into one of the world’s largest furniture companies.

For IKEA, design is one of the central elements in the implementation of the idea of creating functional and well designed furniture that can be afforded by as many people as possible. This idea is based on such concepts as “Beauty for all” (Ellen Key 1899), concepts that date back to the 19th century reform movements and that are still manifest today in the “Swedish Model” of a modern society that focuses on family and social well-being.

Find more about the exhibition here.

Via Cool Hunting

Here are the before photos of Tess’ living room, who won the grand price:

And here are the lovely after photos, with a cohesive color scheme and lots of nice greenery (you can check the makeover product list here):

Via Clutter Cubed

Easy To Assemble is a comedy that tells the story of Illeana Douglas as she quits her Hollywood career and goes to work at Ikea in an attempt for normal life. She will then discover the difficulty to leave behind her past while celebrity friends, gossip columnists, agents and Hollywood craziness in general follow her into her new life.

You can watch any episode at My Damn Channel

I found this curious post called FLAMMA at today and tomorrow. Its hilarious that they used an Ikean Name for the project.

Helmut Smits is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Rotterdam that by using the fire arc technique and 8 Ikea products actually is able to start a fire.

Check out the video!