Ikea Is Now Selling Tiny Homes and They’re As Stylish As You’d Expect

Food & Wine ^ | December 16, 2020 | Jessica Poitevien

[nickcarraway]

The price on the tiny home starts at $47,550.

For decades, Ikea has decorated and organized homes across the world, thanks to its ready-to-assemble furniture. Now, the beloved Swedish company is taking its dedication to home goods a step further with the creation of its very first tiny home.

With a focus on sustainability, Ikea’s latest product doesn’t sacrifice any luxuries or comforts, despite its compact size. According to Lonely Planet, Ikea partnered with Vox Creative and RV and tiny home builder Escape to design the tiny home with eco-friendly features.

Built as part of the Ikea Tiny Home Project, the trailer is a customized version of Escape’s Vista Boho XL model. The added features include solar panels, composting toilets, and an on-demand heated water supply, powered by the trailer, Lonely Planet reports. Potential buyers can get a better idea of what their new abode might look like through an online shopping experience created by Vox. The Ikea-specific website allows audiences to explore the home and buy furniture or other knickknacks to personalize their tiny home.

"It was a natural pairing," Escape founder Dan Dobrowolski told Lonely Planet. "We feature many Ikea products in our various tiny home designs around the country, as they mirror the renewable, reusable, and recycled materials we incorporate into the actual structures."

The custom build took 60 days to complete, with Ikea senior interior design leader Abbey Stark telling Lonely Planet that she “wanted to source renewable, reusable, and recycled materials when possible to make the space functional as well as beautiful.”

And she succeeded in that mission. The whitewashed panels of the tiny home are made from sustainably grown pine, while the kitchen cupboards are fashioned with recycled bottle tops. The entire home is also decorated with neutral tones and includes practical features such as built-in storage and a collapsible desk.

The Ikea BOHO XL model from Escape starts at $47,550, and you can take a virtual tour of the home here.

Jessica Poitevien is a Travel + Leisure contributor currently based in South Florida, but always on the lookout for the next adventure. Besides traveling, she loves baking, talking to strangers, and taking long walks on the beach. Follow her adventures on Instagram.

This story originally appeared on travelandleisure.com

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Does same apply if i have house i live in and rent out the ikea house on my property?

[Texas Fossil]

From a link inside the article you posted:

https://www.escapetraveler.net/

[Mr. K]

Does it come with a giant Allen wrench?

[Texas Fossil]

In 1889 my great great grandfather moved to the county I live in. The county was cut up in 1885. They moved in 3 wagons from Gatesville. His first home was a 1/2 dugout. This was prairie, no trees, hence all building materials had to be brought in by wagon from 60 miles away.

When he died, he had a dozen children and he left each one of them a farm, some money and some with 2 farms.

They were resourceful people.

Now members only 2 of the 12 branches of his family still lives here.

My father is 95 now. He owns 6 farms. Has lived here all his life except for 2+ years he spent in Europe during WWII.

[super7man]

It only takes 2 years to read the assembly instructions then another 2 years to assemble it. ;o)

[super7man]

resale value will equate to a Yugo.

Customer: "I'd like to get two spark plugs for a Yugo."
Counter Guy: "OK. That'd be a fair trade."

[Moltke]

Yeah, but you can set it up on any sidewalk in L.A. or S.F. and no one will bother you...

[zeugma]

I think the restrictions against tiny houses is kinda silly. Not everyone needs a whole lot of room, and might be comfortable with something that doesn’t cost a fortune to heat/cool.

Of course, governments (at any level) aren’t happy unless they are telling you specifically what you can/cannot do. They control almost every single aspect of your life, right down to how big a toilet you have. The minimum amount of ‘freedom’ you have is an illusion.

As we’ve seen during this ‘pandemic’, they are willing to use various ‘licensing’ requirements to control all economic activity. Normally, this is hidden to a certain degree, as their various armies of ‘inspectors’ and whatnot are more diffuse, but they are still there, and will exercise whatever methods they want, from simply financially destroying you, up to and including killing you if you resist their dictates.

[moovova]

I see “tiny houses” in the Craigslist RV section. They’re far more expensive than comparable size RVs...and the ad stays on Craigslist forever. Most are used...people figuring out they overspent on something that, in realty, is a pain to live in maybe?

[SkyPilot]

Yeah, but you can set it up on any sidewalk in L.A. or S.F. and no one will bother you...

Funny - but has a dose of reality.

There are places in California, Washington State, Oregon, and all over the US that have dilapidated RVs parked on busy streets - and the authorities do nothing.

Many of them empty their black and grey water tanks right into the street. Many cannot even move under their own power, and are falling apart. Zoning and other laws absolutely state they cannot be there, but no one does a thing.

It's sort of like laws that Illegal Invaders flout. Victor Davis Hanson has written about this.

If you go into the California desert, you will packs of Illegals who set up illegal shanty towns, complete with food stands, out door toilets, and impromptu garbage piles. Many of the dump cooking oil and waste right into drainage ditches.

The environmental fines they break alone would bankrupt a millionaire - but the police and towns do nothing.

But, if you are a law abiding home owner in California who cut down a tree on your property without a permit, or even came close to violating an environmental law, they will fine your BIG TIME.

[Hiddigeigei]

“This was prairie, no trees, hence all building materials had to be brought in by wagon from 60 miles away.”
I had an uncle who became a sheep rancher in Arizona. He had two daughters, one died and he cremated her. The surviving daughter, my cousin, who was very young at the time, said the main thing remembered was wondering where all the wood came from. The child’s ashes were slipped into my grandmothers coffin when she died.

[Albion Wilde]

Horrible.

[Albion Wilde]

Didn’t the founder of IKEA work with Nazis?
If he did nobody cares. He's dead and the company was given to a Dutch charity he founded. People still buy Fords also.

Too bad he didn't have a statue to be pulled down.

[Moltke]

Yes, I was at best half-joking.

[ridesthemiles]

County rules are different all over the country. You cannot live in such a ‘structure’ in MANY places.

[minnesota_bound]

Here is a neighborhood of them
https://philipschwarzphotography.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/ice-fishing-village-10-18-_0144.jpg

A “mobile” home : )
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3f/7b/3a/3f7b3a29b7f778cbd7932d611586e464.jpg

[freddy005]

They’re readying the population for the “Great Reset” where the majority will live in poverty but will be convinced that they don’t need to live any better (i.e. “You will own nothing and you’ll love it.”) while their (few) masters will live like royalty. It’s coming folks....be prepared!

[minnesota_bound]

60 days to build that?
That is a weekend project.