We’ve created our first special IKEA Life at Home Pulse Report to share our rich pocketful of insights into people’s struggles during this temporary time – and how they’re making the most of it. From our conversations with 20 households across five countries over the past month, we’ve gathered these insights into how people are feeling, coping, surviving and thriving in the current pause between two normals. We’re calling this strange space, in which coronavirus lockdowns are easing yet restrictions remain, ’the messy middle’.