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IKEA shares how to make six types of furniture fort during lockdown


All you need is some sofa cushions, soft furnishings, and pegs (Picture: IKEA)

When the world outside is a dumpster fire, what’s better than making a big fort in your house and hunkering down for the day?

You don’t even need any ingenuity to one now, as IKEA Russia has created a series of guides to use their furniture in your fort building.

Alongside creative agency Instinct, the guides are drawn in a distinctly Ikea style, with the pictures showing you exactly which pieces you need and how to assemble your mini castle.

There are six different options to choose from; castle, fortress, wigwam, house, cave, and camping tent.

The designs come with the warning that you should always be in attendance when children are playing, which seems fair given how much little ones can destroy (and, ergo, have fall on top of them) when they’re on one.

They also say that you aren’t required to use IKEA products specifically, and can substitute for whatever you have in your home.

Jazz up your wigwam with some fairy lights (Picture: IKEA)
Every family needs a Djungelskog (Picture: IKEA)
The castle takes a little more by way of construction skills (Picture: IKEA)
Make sure you take your undies off the Pressa before you start (Picture: IKEA)
This one’s nice and easy (Picture: IKEA)

The IKEA Russia Instagram account encouraged people to share their creations with the hashtag #явдомикеикеа, which loosely translates to ‘I’m in an IKEA house’.

Not to exaggerate, but we’d trade our houses for these sweet, cosy mini-abodes. This one even has a rabbit in it.

With the pressure currently being placed on parents to be teacher, disciplinarian, friend, and everything else, it’s a difficult time.

But when we spend more quality time with our little ones and have fun with what we already have, it can show us that this external pressure really doesn’t matter at all.

These times building forts out of sheets will stick in their memories forever – as well as yours.

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