so my wife sent me on a side trip to ikea this weekend. my friends and i started asking ourselves- what if you lived in ikea? well take a look…
this shoot was totally spontaneous and has had over 200,000 hits to date. i actually specialize in wedding photography if you’d like to take a look. i’m available for worldwide travel so if you’re interested hit me up and let’s make some magic!
hahahaha this. is. great. and it’s exactly what a friend of mine and i do whenever we go. people always stare – it’s great!
I think you should submit that to the marketing department.
I agree with Lauren.. This is hilarious and very clever! Thanks for sharing guys.
Freaking hilarious. What a ridiculously awesome idea!
Really clever shoot – did you guys get permission for any of that? Cracked me up!
that’s hysterical!
Ok this made me laugh!!! So funny. Good work
Thanks for making my day
Oh my gosh this is HYSTERICAL! So glad I found your blog!
Hahahaha so good!!!
fricking amazing!!!
meagan, row house nest
Haha, super cute!
hilarious! i want to go do this now.
love love love this! thank you for the fun!
Ha ha That is great! Love it! And truthfully, they DO ask for it!
hysterical!
You have no idea how much I have always wanted to do that in that store. Awesome work!
I don’t think I’ll ever get over this! Hahahaha!
This is hilarious! I’ve always wanted to move in!
HAHAHA – this is too funny. These guys actually manage to make going to IKEA fun?? Well done!!!
I know the answer…. if you lived at IKEA, you’d be the luckiest person in the WORLD!
I LOVE IKEA – I LIVE IN BERLIN / GERMANY
We had an amazing scavenger hunt for my birthday at IKEA
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162591790443264&ap=1
Great pics!
I think you should be paid for the commercial you just shot!!! That was great!!!
I work at Ikea, and I feel like live there
Too funny! I love it!
Amazing! Gotta leave it up, lol
Great stuff.
I love the bromance happening on the couch…very touching.
Absolutely hilarious! I am posting to my FB. Love the bromance. Too funny!
Absolutely hilarious! I am posting to my FB tonight. My friends & I just love IKEA. This is great!
Great stuff. I wish I lived in an IKEA…
Ha! Perfect!!
You guys are hilarious!
Ok, so now I’m scared to send MY husband to Ikea.
Hilarious!
Hilarious!! Haven’t we all wanted to live in Ikea at some point.
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I think the best is that your are shirtless in the shower photos
Did the workers at Ikea catch on? I can imagine you guys running around like wild men in there!
hilarious! i love how candid these shots feel.
I wonder, how did you passed security to take all those pictures?
Hilarious and love it!
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This gets better every time I look at it.
Love it! Thanks for sharing. Makes me want to go to my local IKEA and start getting comfortable and take pictures with friends. Maybe even have a party!!!
OMG! that’s hilarious! love it!
hahaha this is funny, i feel like this is my life! (i work at IKEA full time).
excellent pics, reminds me of the IKEA scenes in 500 days of summer
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love them!
That’s hilarious. I would have loved to have seen the looks on the faces of the people around you!
This is just way too RAD and over the top CREATIVE idea! Awesome!!!!
This is absolutely awesome. Looks like you guys had a good time! I’m always game for these types of shenanigans.
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Not so far from the truth … in the Beijing Ikea, people really do sleep in the beds and put their kids down for naps in the cribs. It’s fun just to go people watch there.
So much fun! What a great set!
So natural! Love them!
Hi Christian,
I just found your blog and website, it all looks great!
Love your About me piece, very original.
You and your friends at Ikea is hilarious, you made me laugh outloud! Great job!
Have a good Easter,
Maureen
this was awesome, especially entertaining. I wanna do it.
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Absolutely brilliant! This just made my day. Like many more, this makes me wanna do the same. Lol, you just might have started a trend!
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HILARIOUS!!! ;P
Love, love, love it!! They should hire you for the new catalog! ; )
HAHAHA I love this!! So clever!
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That cracked me up! Very clever boys!
Absolutely brilliant! I Will never look at Ikea the same way!
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aahahahahhaahahah!
génial!
great!
i love that!
happy easter!
sophie :^)
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Beautiful, hilarious, beautiful and hilarious!
I LOVE IT!
That’s TERRIFIC!!! Hahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!! Real good idea: Im going to do as you next week-end in Toulouse’s IKEA. Now tell us: what’s the next store?
Looks like you have been thinking other people’s thoughts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lu0SQmUosQ&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.ianrichardhinchliffe.co.uk/index.php?/weekly-big-shop/
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This rocks! Made me laugh…
Pretty hysterical, Christian. Thanks for the smile.
Just finished up looking at a sample of your fine art photos on smug mug. Gorgeous photos, Christian. Really lovely-ethereal, dreamlike, and painter-ly…(specifically the countryside series). Your wife must have your walls covered in your prints.
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haha it’s amazing! good work Christian!
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AMAZING!!! this is really great. love the surprise look on the shower pix. absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!
Aubrey sent me this link, so awesome!! you guys REALLY got into it– which made it more than perfect! red shirt guy’s a babe.
SOOOOOO funny! Love it!
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Love it!! I’ve often thought of living at Ikea… after hours of course… figured I’d get sick of hot dogs though
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Great set!!! My friends did this stuff in Ikea Hongkong, though tamer:D it was a lot of fun though!
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yea i have always wanted to do it as well. but somehow i dont think it would be half as funny for someone like myself doing it. the photos are tooooo funny
I just LOVED this!! Thanks for sharing….makes me feel like goin to Ikea <3
This LITERALLY made me LOL.. awesome!
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Génial! J’adore! Nous en avons tous rêvé et vous l’avez fait, bravo ; )
what a fun idea and cool pictures!! loving it!
I’m going to ikea tonight with my hunny…. i’m sure he’ll attempt at least 3 of these scenes! lol! I love it!
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This is seriously fantastic. Just..awesome!
This is an amusing take on what appears to be a suddenly popular idea.
I recently read about this artist also using Ikea -
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/37305/shopping-for-transcendence-at-ikea-photographer-guillaume-janots-uncanny-scenes-from-beijings-megastore/
genius!! absolutely genius!!
So funny!!!
Absolutely hilarious. Love these photos! Nice work
hahah, what a great idea! the bathroom pictures are especially funny.
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Three guys with a seriously great sense of humor!
This is hilarious! Love it.
Well, living in Shanghai, this is normal.
The locals treat IKEA like a western immersive experience, inhabiting the dioramas, like these guys, but mum, dad, gran, granpa and the kid are all living it large just before the 20 cent hotdog and 20 cent bottomless cup of fizzy drink.
A Shanghiese trip to Luna Park.
It is life in IKEA China.
Great work guys.
you sir are hysterical!
This is absolutely creative genius. I love it!!
You so totally had me falling off my chair laughing as I lay on my floor. I think you should do Wal-Mart or Target next.
Di
Love it!
I’ve been working on a similar series of Showroom Self-Portraits for about a year.
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Hilarious!
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OMG this is awesome! i always wanted to do this!
I loved this! I have always wanted to “live in Ikea”!
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hilarious! great work!
Ok so now I figured out who stole my lunch!!!!
Next time though.. let the toilet seat down after yerself please.
Awesome! great project. Nice idea. Love it. You guys are fun!
This is HILARIOUS! I thought you would find the soap opera “Ikea heights” (shot entirely at an IKEA store) very amusing too: http://www.vimeo.com/4921692
you guys are nuts – and pretty darn funny
LOL – great idea – would love to have seen other customers’ faces at the dude in the bed – too funny !
hilarious!!! Thanks for the laugh….
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This is so many levels of awesomeness!!!
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Very cute!
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It’s awesome!!!! I like this…LOVE…LOVE…LOVE. I hope you don’t mind if I shared this in my blog
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Oh so funny. You guys did a great job with this.
Well done, IKEA…
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Seriously funny.
So funny! On rainy days, my preschooler and I go to Ikea to play house. So much better than playing house at home.
Quick question and completely irrelevant.
How did you get that “retro” look on your pictures?
i go gaga for ikea…
I really like this. I’ve always wanted to live in a retail outlet of some sort and I admire you guys for doing it.
What, no Swedish meatballs for lunch? You clearly were not there on a rainy weekend – our IKEA gets *mobbed!*
This was such a great idea – and terrific pictures!
Hysterical!!! And I thought I was the only one that liked to play in the Ikea Kitchens! My question is, which Ikea were the photo’s taken at? Mine is so busy you can never get into a room alone much less a kitchen or shower!
“Darling, I don’t know how to tell you this, but…there’s a Chinese family in our bathroom.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9b5x1q1BM
LOVE this photoshoot
@christiangideonphotography H-O-M-E S-W-E-E-T H-O-M-E http://twitpic.com/4ujxaf #ikea #response #funny #whatifyoulivedatikea
this is SO funny!! I really love this
saw your photos on IKEA hacker, so funny. you guys are clever.
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I love these photos!!!!But it will be better if he take off the hat. People doesn’t wear hat at home.
hysterical guys. hysterical. so funny.
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Hi guys,
I work at Ikea of Sweden here in Sweden. This link is being sent around here at our office and everyone think it’s hysterical
Greetings from Maria in Sweden!
This is fabulous! Love it!
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ME ENCANTO, I LOVED IT
Very very great idea! I think You are the only men I know, living in an IKEA store voluntarily.
I linked the pictures on http://www.hej-community.de to let all german IKEA fans see your great pictures!
Love it. It made me homesick. I can’tt wait until we move back to the lower 48. I miss my IKEA so very much.
I loved this! I also see that one of you did the Warrior Dash. Awesome.
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Awesome shoot!!!
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loloolololol I love it !!!!!!!! Living at Ikea is my dream !!! I love your blog ! Thanks for sharing !!
Holy brilliance, Batman! This was great. I love Ikea.
hahah, this is great. thank you for taking the time to make this.
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This really is a cool series! You guys do have a great sense of humor.
I laughed my ass off. That’s a great series.
love it…. the price tags would kinda get annoying after while…. specially on the towels!
Hahaha! You guys are hilarious! I love the sneaky look on the striped-shirt guy’s face when he’s getting (what looks like) a pen!
Just hilarious! XOL
I think you did a great job with these photo’s! Hilarious!
I made a little post today in my blog with a link to your post, more people should see this. Take care,
Maureen
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GREAT! the range I develop is coming to good use!
If you were a bachelor…
Your idea is really great!
Unfortunately, it might be plagiarized by some people!!!!!!!! Please Check this out– http://www.wretch.cc/blog/kgbtonton/16841
I’ve frequently wondered this as I’ve walked through IKEA. I wouldn’t have the guts to do this though… kudos to you guys!
Funny post, love it, you make my day
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so cool ,i love it.
lovely work and great photography.. Thanks
I love our photography..keep it up
Interesting work.. nicly Capture
This seriously cracked me up…..and totally reminded me of Unhappy Hipsters
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You guys are really in touch with your domestic side. Some photos looked like scenes from Laverne and Shirley. Keep up the great work. LMAO!
I love IKEA. The store set-up is almost asking for people to play “house”….and by people I mean children, but no worries I’ve done it too.
ps- I survived warrior dash too!
Flippen Hilarious!! i could not stop myself laughing out loud!!
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such a cute couple!
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love it…hahaha …made me laugh right out loud…love you standing on the stool to reach the top shelf….hahahaha thanks for the morning laugh
真的非常有创意，多谢这些好照片哈哈
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Nice, reminds me of the guys who shoot short scenes guerrilla style in Ikea’s.
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I would live in an IKEA!
poto by Christian Gideon.
Photo by Christian Gideon.
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My husband and I did our engagement photos at an IKEA. Everyone thought we were shooting for a catalogue! We have some of the same shots!
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Did you talk to someone about taking the photos? is it allowed?
We have an Ikea room, I don’t mind living there..
Ha! I think you did what all of us want to do the minute we walk into an IKEA!
Love this – too fun, and they make a lovely couple
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I love this way too much! =]
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