Flat-Pack Dreams and Westside Schemes: IKEA Invades Beaverton with Swedish Precision

So IKEA just plopped itself down in Beaverton like it’s been there all along—like it didn’t just ghost the entire west side of Oregon for years while we suffered in particleboard silence. But now? Now we’ve got what they’re calling a “Plan & Order Point,” which sounds like a military op but is actually a chic little design studio wedged inside Progress Ridge Town Square, flanked by an OrangeTheory and probably someone selling high-end dog pastries.

You can’t buy a couch and immediately drag it out like a suburban Viking, no. This isn’t that kind of IKEA. There are no Swedish meatballs, no existential breakdowns in the lighting section. Instead, you sit your overwhelmed ass down with an IKEA planner and, together, you map out your kitchen, your bathroom, your closet, your future. You tap the screen. You make decisions. You feel powerful. Then, like magic—or capitalism—they deliver it to your door or let you pick it up like a minimalist boss the next day. No muss. No maze. No Allen wrench.

This is IKEA’s idea of intimacy. And Beaverton is eating it up. They’ve already opened five of these nationwide this year, and six more are coming. But we, my darlings, got one first. IKEA Beaverton is open 8 to 7 on weekdays, 10 to 7 on weekends, with a big grand-opening bash planned in July.

So go. Design a future where your spoons have a dedicated drawer and your towels match your soul. Because Beaverton just got bougie as hell.