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Designer Tips for improving your IKEA Laundry Room

IKD designer Richard says adding value is easy with an IKEA laundry room. Some IKEA customers may believe that laundry rooms are solely utilitarian and boring. Not true. There are many options that will not only boost the function and look of your laundry area, but will simultaneously boost the value of your home.And all it takes is some design ingenuity and IKEA cabinets. This according to IKD designer Richard whose worked on dozens of IKEA laundry rooms and who’d like to share some tips for improving your IKEA laundry. “Laundry rooms are a great way to stretch your imagination. IKEA laundry rooms are a place you can go a little [...]

Designer Tips to Plan Your IKEA Kitchen Lighting

Expert advice for using lighting to make your kitchen more stylish and functional For any kitchen design, one of the most important goals is to highlight the space so that it’s both stylish and functional. After all, you want the space to really shine, right? As IKEA kitchen design specialists, we’re here to tell you that prop-er kitchen lighting is one of the most practical ways to achieve these goals and get the most out of your IKEA cabinetry. And there are important issues to consider when talking about ambient, task and accent lighting, for in-stance. These are the lighting options that brighten all areas of your space (think IKEA drawer lights, [...]

Designer Tips For Your IKEA PAX Closet Design

Designing your IKEA closet the right way You might think IKEA PAX closets are straight forward. Well, yes and no. There are special design considerations that we’d like to share with you for a fully functional and beautiful IKEA PAX closet. Our design team knows that people looking for IKEA closet design tips will definitely benefit from this information. For instance, we will discuss the importance of the ceiling height of your closet; the importance of good lighting; custom trim options and why IKEA organizers and accessories are so necessary, among others. Why’s this so important? Following any of these tips will not only provide a good start for a dynamic [...]

Designer Tips: Considerations when selecting your sink for your IKEA Kitchen

Finding the right sink for your IKEA kitchen is just as important as where to put it Having the right sink can make it or break it (kitchen design speaking). We see it all the time: An IKEA kitchen design that was clearly not laid out by a professional designer and includes many design mistakes. It’s a shame because creating an IKEA kitchen is a time-consuming endeavor for the customer. Let’s see, you take the time to research kitchen design ideas on HOUZZ or other design Web sites; you decide on a design theme; you select your IKEA cabinetry to combine with IKEA’s SEKTION cabinetry framework and you research kitchen sink [...]

Designer Tips: How We Design and Organize an IKEA Kosher Kitchen

Understanding the essentials to a quality kosher IKEA kitchen Designing a Kosher IKEA kitchen requires detailed planning and a thoughtful layout. The design team at IKD recognizes that an IKEA Kosher kitchen includes proper food storage and preparation separation, dishwashing areas and overlapping work triangles. This can be a critical request for customers and make their kitchen work more efficiently as well. One of the key components to designing and organizing an IKEA Kosher kitchen is to include proper storage for the utensils, silverware, glassware, plateware and pots and pans, and even separating appliances or installing two of each appliance (including dishwashers, refrigerators and double ovens) in a larger space. Our [...]

Designer tips: PROS and CONS of an U-shaped IKEA kitchen

Our designers reviews explain the advantages and challenges of U-shaped kitchens The U-shaped IKEA kitchen, otherwise known as a peninsula floor plan utilizes three walls that you have available in the kitchen. This design works the best for larger homes, in order to allow you access to your guests and family members while you are preparing and cooking meals for them. This layout provides a massive expanse of counter and storage space as well as great flexibility. This kitchen layout is relatively uncommon these days. Homes are now more open (have less walls) or spaces have turned smaller, favoring other kitchen layouts such as the L-shaped IKEA kitchen. However, if you [...]

IKD Designer Shares Tips for Affordable IKEA Laundry Rooms

IKD designer Merari explains how to create an affordable and attractive IKEA laundry room For IKEA customers who’ve already remodeled their kitchen and looking for a new project, the IKEA laundry room may be just the thing. In fact, our design team knows that an IKEA laundry room can add a lot of style and reduce stress for your family by providing an affordable space that makes your home more organized, efficient and flexible. In fact, picking the right products for the laundry room can create a safer and less taxing situation each time you are loading and unloading your laundry.Plus having unique storage options and workspaces can really maximize your [...]

IKEA’s next sale event: designer shopping tips

Knowing your space and your needs will get you through the next IKEA sales event The one predictable thing about IKEA kitchen sales events announcements is that they are unpredictable. IKD designer Paulina explains: “It’s well known that IKEA doesn’t announce the dates for their next sale. We’d been observing one-month long sales and assuming that that would happen two or three times a year, every three months or so. But this past one lasted just three weeks and it came one or two weeks before the ‘expected’ time. So yes, it even took us by surprise!” Even we here at IKD are not immune but of course we are used [...]

IKEA Kitchen Organization Tips from IKD Pros

Consider how you use your IKEA kitchen when creating a functional design At Inspired Kitchen Design, we help ensure our clients don’t jump into an IKEA kitchen renovation unprepared. The only thing worse than redesigning a kitchen on a whim is designing one that doesn’t work for you. This happens more often than you might think. We have customers who see a kitchen on HGTV, Pinterest, or in a showroom, and they fall in love. They don’t always stop to consider whether this “perfect kitchen” is perfect for them. For this reason, IKD always asks kitchen design customers to consider three vital questions: How do you use your kitchen? Who uses [...]

3 Laundry Room Design Tips from IKD Customers

In this article: Homeowners want a laundry room designer who listens. How we work with multiple vendors to make a unique IKEA laundry design. Why appliance details are essential for a built-in laundry look. How we use IKEA SEKTION cabinets in creative ways. Embracing Customer-Centric IKEA Laundry Design If your IKEA laundry designer isn’t customer-focused, they’re doing something wrong. There is nothing we enjoy more than getting feedback from our design customers. That’s how we know what we’re doing right and what we may need to re-evaluate. There are a few common reasons customers choose IKD over other options for their home design, including laundry room design. For example, we: Pay [...]

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