Customers can explore one of a kind roomsets curated by Londoners, unique to Oxford Street, plan their dream kitchen or bedroom with IKEA designers, and wander the market-hall. The new store has undergone an extensive renovation to upgrade the building’s environmental credentials whilst retaining the heritage features of the historic site. The Hus of FRAKTA pop-up, located alongside IKEA Oxford Street, will close on Sunday, 23rd March.
IKEA will open the doors of its highly anticipated Oxford Street store on Thursday, 1st May, marking the completion of an extensive environmental upgrade of the Grade II listed building at 214 Oxford Street in central London.
The IKEA Oxford Street store will offer the traditional IKEA experience: a showroom packed with inspiration and roomsets, a market-hall filled with affordable home furnishings accessories, planning appointments and a Swedish Deli. The brand-new city center store will span three floors of the seven-storey building, comprising the ground and two lower ground floors, with a retail space of 5,800 sq m.
“Whether a local Londoner or a tourist passing through, IKEA Oxford Street aims to inspire home dreams for everyone – offering beautifully designed, functional furnishings at prices affordable for as many people as possible, ensuring visitors leave with ideas and solutions that make everyday life at home a little better,” says Peter Jelkeby, CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer, IKEA UK.
The store’s opening follows a meticulous three-year renovation, which included complex work to enhance environmental performance whilst preserving the building’s cherished heritage features. In addition to the IKEA store, the building will accommodate three other retail outlets and offer four floors of office space.
Ingka Investments, the investment arm of IKEA UK’s parent company and owner of the building, has overseen this comprehensive transformation. It includes replacing traditional fossil fuel gas-fired boilers with energy-efficient air source heat pumps, installing secondary glazing for improved insulation, carrying out meticulous cleaning and restoration of the building’s historic façade, and a sympathetic lighting scheme to illuminate the building at night.
IKEA Oxford Street will open on 1st May 2025, following the closure of the Hus of FRAKTA pop-up concept store on 23rd March 2025. The new IKEA store will be open daily from 10am until 8pm.
