Mairéad Ronan

Hallucinating inside a Scandinavian kindergarten.

My night alone in Ikea.

That caught my attention.

It's an article by Caitlin Cassidy.

They had a pop-up store in Sydney in Australia to celebrate the launch of Ikea's Post Scriptum collection.

It's a limited line now in its 10th edition.

It celebrates playful functionality and progressive design.

And they fully designed a three-bedroom house with IKEA stuff.

And then they invited people to stay overnight on their own.

Inspired, Caitlin says, by the 500 Days of Summer movie.

I never saw it.

I was too old for it.

It was an indie rom-com that romanticised IKEA showrooms as the perfect place for a date.

But Caitlin was there on her own.

And she describes, my initial thought upon check-in is that I'm hallucinating inside a Scandinavian kindergarten.

Great line.

The blocks of colour are almost aggressively cheerful.

Green sofas, blue dining room chairs, a red clock shaped like a bench tube.

And she talks about it all.

And then she describes going to sleep, lying in my IKEA bed after turning off my dimmable IKEA lamp on my IKEA side table.