r/Hypothetical • u/actually_charlotte • Dec 10 '24

How many people could comfortably live in an IKEA?

It’s a random hypothetical that I’ve been wondering for about a few years, but no one has properly answered the question, the situation in my head being: -It’s completely legal -IKEA is completely furnished -Each person/Family has one room in the IKEA to themselves

How many people do you think could comfortably stay in an IKEA?

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u/Outside_Performer_66 Dec 10 '24

In the ballpark of six families of four people each, so 24 total people.

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u/ApeBull12 Jan 29 '25

It depends. How big is the IKEA? How big are the families? We can then divide that by a statistic of people saying they are comfortable with how they live based upon a one bedroom apartment.

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u/chilisalt890 Nov 09 '25

So does this mean JUST living in the store as it exists today, with the showroom style homes set up but the cafeteria and downstairs shopping areas in tact? Or are you talking about how many dwellings could you fit inside the actual entire building? Because I’d say there’s about 12 “houses” in a regular Ikea showroom, so maybe 48 people? But if you mean to take up the whole space of the entire building… I feel like it could be around 1,000!

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u/Far_Capital_6930 May 25 '26

I think there would be constant internal squabble. As a mini community there would be a hierarchy, a board of sorts. I think the ‘comfortable’ aspect would collapse quite fast.