Sustainable living: IKEA’s indoor garden Growroom

IKEA’s move toward sustainable living

As more people get on board of sustainable living, minimalism, creating eco-friendly households and growing their own food, they’re looking into easier ways to implement those ideas into their everyday lives. Gardening is one of the trends more and more people become passionate about, however, a lot of individuals willing to start their own small vegetable or herb garden consider it almost impossible or too much effort due to their living conditions. How would you grow your own veggies, greens or herbs if you lived in an apartment or a house with minimal backyard space? And what about sustainable living despite unfavorable climate or in the winter time?

Well, looks like IKEA found an easy and inexpensive solution to that issue. They launched Growroom – a concept and a building plan of an indoor spherical garden made of plywood. Following the instructions provided by the company, one can build this unconventionally looking planter at home or at the office and grow organic vegetables without respect of weather conditions or outdoor space availability.

IKEA designed this garden the way that every customer is able to assemble it without any particular issues and made it quite accessible for different people and communities. Maximizing the growing space and transforming an indoor planter into a wonderful piece of the interior, this spherical garden is designed to empower people to try growing their own fresh foods, experience the excitement of picking their own vegetables once they’re ready and connect people with nature.

The creator’s aim also includes promoting green living practices, local food production and environment awareness among average people.

What’s the Growroom?

IKEA’s one of the practical and easy-to-implement sustainable living ideas was brought to life in cooperation with Space10. This urban farm pavilion’s design suits modern and traditional interiors while its sliced structure provides optimal lighting and water flow conditions for proper indoor growth of weeks-worth supply of greens and vegetables.

One doesn’t have to be a man of all work to set this thing up, even though this indoor garden will probably be the most difficult IKEA furniture assembly project to get done. But, this flat pack is definitely worth the effort (something you rarely say about IKEA, huh?).

You may find 17-step instructions on Space10 website or IKEA’s Medium page.

However, if you want to use your own materials or don’t have IKEA in your local area to shop for the flat pack version of the Growroom, you still may build it on your own. It will just take you a bit more time and effort. To do that, purchase wood boards, get them cut precisely according to the detail samples available in the instruction and put the indoor garden together with the help of a bunch of screws and an electric drill. A carpenter from HireRush.com may help you with that project and suggest building outdoor beds for your future backyard vegetable garden as well. 

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To be honest, it’s not the Growroom’s uniqueness that got many people and environmentally aware entrepreneurs so excited. It’s the fact that IKEA, such influential global corporation made a conscious effort to promote sustainable living, environmental awareness, and healthy eating habits among the general public and attempted to introduce according practices in people’s homes.

Hopefully, the Growroom or any other kind of indoor garden system that is not too difficult to build and which may be easily incorporated in average home’s interior, will get more and more people excited to start growing their own food, even if the produce isn’t enough to provide for the whole family, and teach the next generations about healthy and clean living.

Photo was taken from https://ikea.today/