Enjoyed seeing these, but would like to have seen the kitchen, too.

Dulcibella, if you check out the link they provided, you can see more images, including the kitchen.

There are similar small apartment displays at other Ikea locations. I think it is important to understand that these spaces, designed with the most optimal floorplans and furniture layouts, usually lacking good representations of doors and windows, and lacking a single entry/exit like a real apartment, naturally seem liveable. Of course any tiny apartment would seem more liveable and open if you could walk through the bedroom wall and exit through another.

I've seen the IKEA tiny Brooklyn apartment, and after apartment hunting in Brooklyn and Manhattan I can tell you almost NO apartment in the city has such an optimal layout, especially with such a large bedroom! Yes that was 391 square feet, I believe it, but it isn't realistic. It's just cute to look at and imagine what it might be like to find a tiny apartment that was originally built and intended to be a tiny apartment (most of them seem to be sliced up pieces of houses or other apartments!).

Every time I see one of these tiny Ikea fake apartments I think what a good idea it is to design a floorplan around furniture (which is obviously what they do, being furniture sellers), rather than just build an oddly proportioned empty space that's very difficult to furnish (which seems to be what a lot of builders do). No wonder ApartmentTherapy is full of "How to do I arrange furniture in this space" questions.

Don't love it, to be honest

This is about as practical as those model dorm rooms that pop-up in the early fall.

An apartment in Brooklyn, or anywhere in the NYC area, with a bedroom that big? Wouldn't that be nice...

My previous apartment was a studio/one bedroom that totaled 294 square feet. It was a great layout (separate bedroom, kitchen/living area combo) if it wasn't on the first floor of a walk-up. 391 feet would have been a dream.

We used to have a display at the Boston IKEA that was 250 square feet. I can't recall if it's still there, I haven't been to the store in a year. However, my last apartment was 350 square feet (I was a finalist in the Small Cool a few years back) and it was probably more liveable than this sample...

All ikeas have this sort of thing, though.

Actually, @StationeryFiend, the layouts aren't designed around the furniture. I'm an ID at Ikea, and the depth of the rooms is based on where the aisle needs to sit. Then the dividing walls are placed according to where bends are in the aisle, square footage, and architecture. The homes have set square footage ranges, small, medium, and large (though all are in the smaller end), and the layout is again determined by aisles and architecture. Trust me, there are often furniture layout conundrums, as we curse columns, fixtures, emergency exits, and so on.
Just wanted to let you know it's not quite so simple. We go through the same layout angst as many of our customers!

Thanks @RAVEN1025, didn't know that!

I can't quite figure out a floorplan for this space - is it supposed to be a neat rectangle? If so the kitchen ought to be a lot larger/longer than it is!

@Raven1025
I'm an ID at Ikea

zomg, you're ~living the dream~ XD

@chandana
I think it's like this:
____________
| | |
| |___ |
| |
| | |
|____|_______|

ARGH, fail. Let me try again. >.>
____________
|-----------|--------|
|-----------|___---|
|--------------------|
|----------|---------|
|______|______|

Right, so pretend the hyphens are empty space; the walls are made up only by the | and the _. Top left is the living area with the tv against the wall in the middle; top right is the bathroom; bottom right is the bedroom; bottom left is the kitchen (appliances on the center wall, a wall of cabinets on the bottom wall, and the little kitchen table is on the left wall).

I thought they all were decorated the same but the one here in the santa ana, CA area is completely different!

I saw a similar apartment model at the Ikea store in Tampa. It was so cute, and I could imagine myself living there. But like some of the others pointed out, the space was designed to fit the furniture. It would be rare to find a small space with an ideal floor space arrangement so everything fit so nice and perfectly. Still, the model looks comfy and cozy, and the kitchen looks especially big for a little apartment.

Ha-ha! I don't know that it's *the dream* but it's pretty fun!!

No problem! Though, if we could design the layouts around the furniture, my job would be so much easier!

Thanks!