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Warrington’s IKEA furniture store is displaying a UCLan student’s interior designs for thousands of customers to admire. The work of Roxana Zamfir, 27, was brought to the attention of the IKEA interior design team when she created a design for a 7 room self contained flat using IKEA products. The rooms included a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, lounge and office and the design itself was inspired by Roxana’s metaverse research carried out as part of her dissertation, designing a stylish property for a young child free couple.

All of the final year BA (Hons) Interior Design students at UCLan were given the task of creating the home of the future for IKEA, and Roxana’s design was the winner:

 “When I found out I’d won, I cried so much because I was so happy! It means so much to me that hundreds of thousands of people are seeing my creations as soon as they’ve started walking through the store – It’s just amazing.”

In fact, the winning design impressed IKEA bosses so much that Roxana will start a career as a trainee interior designer there when she completes her degree in mid-May.

Speaking on the matter, Karen Miller, Interior Designer at IKEA, said:

“We were really impressed with the projects from the UCLan students. Many of the designs could have been a great addition to the IKEA showroom, but Roxy’s project really stood out as one that took us somewhere different. I had no idea what the Metaverse was until she jump-started my learning journey! We were looking for something we’ve never done before, and Roxy really delivered.”

The work is available to view in the living room department at Warrington’s IKEA until 1 April.

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