Build These Forts Designed by Ikea
Now is the time for the construction of fortresses. This is the time to sit down, curl up and leave me alone. But perhaps by now, after 10 (ish) weeks of this pandemic, you have run out of new ways to throw a blanket over a couple of chairs and call it a fort. Of course it was. But Ikea Russia is here to help ignite our imaginations of forts.
Ikea Russia and the creative agency Instinct have created six projects of forts that parents and children can recreate at home. The instructions are as simple as you would expect from Ikea, with mostly rudimentary drawings to guide you. But that’s really all you need. Each design is based on at least one piece of Ikea furniture, but you can use any similar furniture you already own.
My nine year old son and I decided to give it a try. We went through each design, narrowed it down to two or three, and then he picked the one he thought would give him the most privacy. (I found that at least half the fun of a fort is building a fort.) We decided to use a “cave” design, which seems a little obvious to me now, but it was a method we never tried. before.
We don’t have the particular chair shown in the picture, but we do have a glider in the corner of our living room that we thought would work the same way:
We’ve collected everything we need: a sheet, a few books, a pillow, and a few strands of light to create an atmosphere. Within 15 minutes, our fort was ready:
Here are the other five fort designs (I personally want to try the “castle” with the following):
Each fort design uses items that you probably already have at home: tables, chairs, blankets, pillows, clothespins, books, battery-powered lanterns, and large stuffed animals for communication.
You can see more examples of how families recreated these forts at home at Bored Panda .