While I’m not sure if they’re including a hex key and cheap screws with these houses, it’s an idea whose time has come. Looking around right now I notice almost 90% of our furniture is from Ikea and, if given the land mass, I’d build and install one of these BoKlok housing cubes in a second.
Unfortunately, you don’t pick these up out in Elizabeth, New Jersey and install them on top of your co-op. Instead, Ikea is selling these custom apartments for about $200,000 in the UK. The homes are almost completely pre-fabricated and each block gets an apple tree — something the whole block can take care of, apparently.
Want one? Enter the UK Ikea lottery. The houses are meant for folks making $30,000 to $60,000 and there’s no word on U.S. availability. Bummer.
Welcome to Ikeatown [Guardian via BoingBoing
Bummer? That looks hideous.
There is much better pre-fab design out there for around the same dollar.
Nah ! It’s your comment that’s hideous.
Architecture cannot be judged from photographs no matter how skilled the photographer. It is a 3 dimension art with senses other than vision contributing to the experience.
Get IN there and feel it first.