Ikea probably wasn’t counting on people using their website’s planning tool to design couches with drawbridges, but here we are.
The Swedish-founded furniture company’s years-old digital but creative people have been coming up with designs that go beyond simple seats, then sharing them on social media.
One user and his roommate with a drawbridge, which would cost $5,900 to make. Another person created an impressive re-creation of a .
Several people even designed made of that may look great, but would be far from practical as furniture.
The explosion of tweets appear to have started on June 21,after Twitter user @rudermensch designed a spacious a , which would go for a little more than $19,700. The tweet has since garnered nearly 52,000 likes and 8,700 retweets.
Using a series of loveseats, ottomans and furniture cushions, some users appeared to have messages to give to the people and the Korean boy band BTS and an exasperated “.”
One person even designed a robot-shaped couch they named “,” while some that resemble parts of the male anatomy.
Several people have also compared the unconventional designs to structures people can build in the or find in dungeons in video game series.
who wants to buy me this $8700 couch that looks like a goat that i designed on the ikea couchbuilder
— ️ Bahn ️ (@BenTalisman)
i do enjoy a good labyrinth as well
— annie! (@cloudycomets)
thank you ikea for this extremely powerful $15,000 couch
— JudeoBolshevik (@rudermensch)
Sofa Bot 3000 welcomes you to his comfort party.
— Sean (@seanlacey)
C O U C H
— Patrick Laverick | Digital Ninja (@PatrickLaverick)
pretty affordable for a couch dungeon
— Dead-Beat (@DeadB34t)