This page advertises an IKEA demo kitchen. In the panel just below the main image, it quotes the following:
£3,060 without appliances
12 kvm
What does 'kvm' mean? Is this a Swedish name for a unit of measure that they didn't realise they should translate? I can't find any mention of it besides the adverts themselves, and googling a number of permutations of 'kvm ikea kitchen' doesn't yield anything that looks useful.
edit: As of July 2015; the linked page still exists, but has been updated to read 'sqm' which English-speakers would readily interpret the way it is intended – 'square metres'.
Best Answer
This is short for m^2 which stands for kvadratmeter. This is the total area the kitchen will cover. The two terms are user interchangeably in the Swedish language. Wikipedia article (in Swedish)