I shared a room with two sisters until I was 23. I went to college locally and instead of spending my cash on the nasty-assed dorm shacked up with some stranger, I stayed at home and spent my money on other things. It wasn't bad at all. Our house was 900sq ft. and while it felt cramped sometimes with five people, it was manageable. I think being forced to share made me more patient, humble and thankful for what I have now.

I love how IKEA embraces minimalism as well! I think they're such an amazing company, and it's astonishing what they accomplish

I don't understand why some posts are so negative about this video. Renting an apartment becomes more and more expensive and you might be forced to move to flats with less room. I think this is a great video to tell people that they still can make cosy place for themselves, even if they live on 50 or 60 sqm with 3 or 4 people

Coming back after 5 years, still inspiring as usual. It’s gives me great insight as an architecture student.

I love the second design, but the 6 friends thing just made me claustrophobic.

This video is genius on so many levels. The rock, powder, water metaphor on utilizing space. The amazing interior design ideas presented. The way they were put together into an entertaining video. The advertising power. It is full of win!

"Does a living room really need a sofa? What if we tried something different?" ***Two sofas***

This video and the goal is to open one's mind to utilizing space. It is not meant in any other way. Do what one is able with what one has. Good video Ikea!

Love the room for 6 people but only as a hostel idea. I mean who would want to live like this permanently. As a hostel room however that would be perfect!!

living with my 6 friends like that would be a dream come true. Affordable, functional, and you get to spend your time with the people you love. How is this not a normal thing?

All the creative ideas are amazingly innovative and yet so simple. What is required is the right mindset and have a willing attitude to do the impossible.

Is this a trailer to Sims 4?

Having a small bedroom suddenly doesn't seem so bad anymore. I love the ideas in this video.

The second design is great !! How many people,specially young couples,can afford a flat bigger than this?? For a youn couple that's formidable !!!

the cuteness of that little white kitchen and the tiny bathroom. 😍 love the stop motion animated feel too. felt like I was watching something from a storybook.

2:10 the sleeping compartments in the room reminds me of the Japanese capsule hotels. Great use of small spaces!

Love the ideas. We have to use so many different sources and information when asked to work on smaller properties. One area we find that's usually forgotten and under utilized is the space below the staircase. If you can open that area up and re support it with well calculated supports, you can open up a big wasted area and star using it for lots of things. Small office, storage etc.

The kitchen made me happy. With the amount of baking supplies I have and want to have, that would be perfect!

This is my favourite IKEA ad video, even after all these years.

I really liked the last idea with storage behind bed and mini walk way

This brought tears to my eyes I have no idea why I guess its because Interior Designing is like passion so this is so inspirational. YOU CAN DO ANYTHING thank you so much

I Love love Ikea!!! Afortable, easy to install, love all space ideas. If I have a house it has to be all ikea!!!

I once stayed in a small hotel room in Copenhagen, Denmark where everything was within reach. It was amazing to me.

I think it's genuinely an amazing concept.

Well done IKEA! Thanks for making life work in just enough space. 👌

Totally genius. I love ikea stuff and their designs are so inspiring! Plus that's like marketing gold

Makes me actually covet a smaller space...this is so well done and great ideas.

The six hipsters/bunk beds scenario sounds like absolute hell on earth.

I love that walk in closet idea in the last room they showed. I wanna do that. This video was amazing.

This is interesting and small spaces is really no constrain if you are innovative in your thinking. Small Spaces. Big Style.

'a dream home doesn't have to be big, just smart.' gosh, i love this tagline! :D

Love this - I am obsessed with small spaces

Love this spaces, love the design. Very nice Ikea❤️

This gave me so much life. If someone can do this with their rooms or homes, I definitely know I can. My room is an okay size.

Thank you Ikea! With this video, it inspired me to take a interior designing course!

While I agree that space should not be wasted but be used to it's maximum, efficiency in this case does not equal filling every possible inch of a room just to prove that point. This video made me feel claustrophobic.

OMG that last closet idea! Brilliant!

This video is really impressive. Fascinated to see variant #furniture designs and creativity that you have implemented in your home. Keep up the great work.

great ideas! I just made a little video on how my family of 4 in 500sq/ft utilize our space with Ikea items. Thanks for creating small and multifunctional items for us small space dwellers

This makes me pumped for the new store to open in Kansas City!! I'll be there all the time!!!

LOVE the bedroom with the wardrobe behind the bed :)

I don't mind some of the Ikea furniture, but I don't like the Ikea idea of cramming everything you have (ever gathered) into a tiny home. I did this for some time and never got to keeping it tidy. And true to the Ikea idea I was constantly planning to buy more "storage units" - boxes, shelves, bigger boxes, smaller shelves, moveable shelves, shelves on wheels, a chair to stack the books that couldn't be jammed into those shelves... And then I read about minimalism. My space was already tiny by the standards of other people my age, and I am still decluttering, but within two years I moved about 1/3 of my appartment (books, clothes etc.) and it_is_still crammed! Thing is, I need a lot of time to decide what has to leave, so that I do not go and rebuy it six months later (this has happened...). Fact is also, I still have a lot of "dark corners" where I keep things I cannot even name off the cuff. And when I try to empty them, memories come back and I have a hard time letting them go. The solution - for everyone who needs to move now and then or does not have a house of abundant space - really cannot be to buy another shelf, another box, another cupboard to "put it away"; the solution should be to know where everything you want to use is and how to get it - not by first emptying the front of the drawer of getting the ladder from the basement - and still having so much space that you don't feel shut in. The Ikea rooms - the ones on display at the stores - are nice until you start to imagine a solid wall where you enter. Then think: A one-room-appartment with a coffeetable at the center of the room. If you want space - exercise, work on the floor, tidy up and put some things temporarily somewhere - there will be none. You'd have to heap the coffee table onto the sofa, do your thing, and remove the coffee table again. You'll start to hate that coffee table and spend more and more time outside your home until you get rid of that coffee table and either learn to do without or buy a foldable table - that probably someday will be in your way again... First watch videos on minimalism, then declutter, then think about decluttering some (big, "obstacle"-) furniture, and only then start thinking about buying storage units, and think hard about how you will use them and if you'd rather have that space they take up.

I love the last bedroom idea this has givin my inspiration

Great vid! Love the intro. I've used that illustration many times....Realistic room designs/layouts for the average small apartment or home too.

i love ikea showrooms they always look so damn cozy.

Wow. I like those ideas. Especially the 6 people living together. That looked like the size of my dorm room, and it was crowded with just 2 people living there.

I LOVE the bunk bed one. Reminds me of camp.

What can i say, ..."this video is very inspiring to everyone from IKEA"...

u know what ,once u r in trouble with money space and living quality,it is a very good idea to make it better in this way

I would quite happily live in a small space like the first one anytime. It's cosy and everything is within reach.

I love this!I would try it if I have a apartment

Some great ideas! I love the second one 👍🏻

OMG I loved this commercial. It makes me want to work for IKEA! However, I've always loved IKEA so this is of no surprise.

i LOOOOOOVE the students thing! such nice, all together, but you can still make you'r own space! looove

Love this so much! I may actually use it to try to decorate our apartments for lease :)

simply BRILLIANT!!!

When I go to Ikea I always feel warm and fuzzy walking around!

Love the closet idea at the end

Awesome video!! Love your design ideas!!

This place really does have great items for the home.

I thought about the water and you caught me at the end! Haha, good.

wow... Thanks IKEA providing me soo soo much inspiration for my space...

I love this video! Well done Ikea.

Awesome work, awesome ideas. Need to start redecorate now......

i love the bunk bed room would be so unjust for a week or something with friends

I love the last idea! i should pluck off the doors to my closet today

WOW that first part BLEW MY MIND!

Brilliant!!! Thought provoking and inspiring.

This video is timeless!

I really like the last one ;)

This is honestly incredible xx

I love the ikea little homes in them it so cutevand sometimes i pretend its a real little house and i live in it! Haha enjoyed this!

Gr8 vid as I have a really small biz room and now I have a couple of ideas on what I could do yay!

i love this video. it gives me so much inspiration.

This is such a cool video, especially with the 40 square metre house and the room that is a living room, play room and bedroom.

Optimum utilization of space concept was implemented very well.

when I grow up i wanna be just like ikea be creative and design well what a genius of a girl is she

I really like the last one!! Good idea

So creative!

i love inspirational videos like that😍

The stones at the beginning, so cool

I'm Inspired on this great ideas of IKEA....:>

this are all great ideas. thanks!!

I love "dream room doesn't need to be big, just smart!"

That's amazing! Your video is very inspiring! Thank you for sharing this.

I like the way she keeps building on that glass!!!

Cute Ad… but hey 6 friends in such a small area will drive anyone crazy :)

I love the third one!

that 6-people house is ridiculous but this video had some brilliant ideas. My favourite was the room with the 2 chaise facing each other. I can really see myself living there

I've read some of the comments below. Most people seem to be hung up on 1:50 (where six people are living in a small space). However, this works well if you are in a hostel, dorm, or a sort of boot camp. Ikea just made a pretty version of this already-in-use concept. You have to remember that typically in these spaces, the people that are there, are not there for that long, and are inclined to be conscientious/courteous.

this got me so claustrophobic!

that was fantastic way of space management.... i like this video....

yeah this is all fun and dandy but when you're sick you dont wanna be in a clusterfuck with 6 people in the same room, squished in a small bed. You'll just feel worse

Que buenas ideas!! Me encanta!

Cost differ depending on what you buy. But if you want storagespace Id suggest that you look for cupboards that you can hang on the wall. Find the ultimate space for your large items fist, like your bed or the table, then make use of the surface on the walls and floor by putting cupboards there for storage. Also, does your table need to be out all the time? Maybe you can make it fold from the wall, and have a few stackable chairs under it. Depending on how many will be seated. Good luck :)

It is so smart Love IKEA

Those six friends living together is a trip but ikea showed us how.

Wow Wow Wow Wow that's gorgeous ,smart,beautiful ,gentel I looooove it ♥♡♥♡

This is something very interesting and amazing!

i love the background music :)