Inside IKEA’s ‘House Party’: 30 years of flatpack furniture and what the home of the future could look like

2000s

IKEA’s vision of the 2000s.IKEA

That’s enough of the 1990s — let’s head to the 2000s! The colour palette changes again, this time to a crisp, cool monochrome. The TV is flatter and mounted on the wall, and the dinner table shrinks.

“What we can see if the living room has changed over time,” Drakeford said. “What is the living room today? It’s where families come together but generally, they’re doing different activities.

“We have space for people to read a book, space for people to be on an iPad, we have small products that support sitting watching something on an iPad on your lap.”