IKEA Releases ‘Repurposeful Instructions’ To Reuse Products In Fresh Unique Ways

By Mikelle Leow, 06 Aug 2021

Images via IKEA Canada

IKEA has been proactively encouraging shoppers to extend the use of objects, from introducing creative functions for its retired catalogs to developing a recipe book using up every scrap of food. In its latest push for sustainability, IKEA Canada has come up with 12 assembly guides demonstrating ways to give its products a second lease of life so they wouldn’t be tossed into landfills.

The new, free-to-download Repurposeful Instructions are available in beginner, intermediate, and advanced booklets so hackers of all experience levels can make the most out of their IKEA products. An IVAR cabinet, for instance, makes for a surprisingly useful beehive, and the ever-iconic FRAKTA shopping bags have yet another use in the form of a hanging garden.

“We really believe in the power of small, sustainable acts that people can take in their daily lives,” shared Ami Warrington, Marketing Communications Specialist at IKEA Canada. “In addition to becoming a fully circular business by 2030, IKEA is committed to helping our customers and co-workers make lots of little changes, like with Repurposeful Instructions, to live more sustainably in easy and inspiring ways.”

Have a glimpse at some accidental purposes of IKEA items down below, and download them all here.