By Richard,

March 6, 2015

By Richard |

March 6, 2015

Navigating the IKEA Home Planner when you want custom kitchen cabinetry

The IKEA Home Planner can be such a headache to use.
The IKEA Home Planner strikes again and it’s affecting our clients who choose to include custom-made cabinet doors and drawer fronts in their IKEA kitchen design.

Never fear, there is a workaround. You can still include the beautiful kitchen cabinet doors you plan to purchase from Semihandmade.

Here’s What You Need to Know

We’ve written before about how the Home Planner can be frustrating. Many of our customers find us by searching on the terms, “why is the IKEA Home Planner such a pain in the you-know-what.”

We create your design using our 3D-rendering software. But at some point, we do need to upload it into the Home Planner. So, the Home Planner is still involved, but you don’t have to deal with it.

The Home Planner previously had a one-click option to remove only the doors from your kitchen design. Everything else would remain in the cabinet or drawer configuration.

What we’ve discovered is that the Home Planner won’t let you remove just the cabinet doors from your design anymore. Take the doors out, and everything else disappears.


Why Design
with IKD?

Why Design with IKD?


This Has a Big Impact on Your IKEA Kitchen Shopping List

The shopping list is generated from the Home Planner design.

Don’t want IKEA doors to appear in your shopping list? If we remove them, all the other items for those cabinets will disappear from your shopping list too.
This glitch in the Home Planner isn’t particular to any one market. We’ve seen this happening in IKEA USA and IKEA Canada.

A Workaround for the IKEA Home Planner Glitch

We talked to our friends at Semihandmade doors and came up with this strategy for our customers who are creating an IKEA kitchen design with custom cabinet doors and drawer fronts:

  • If you are using all custom doors, we will design your IKEA kitchen with their doors. When you go to the store with your list, you will want to ask IKEA staff to remove all of the doors and drawer fronts from your quote.
  • If you are using a mix of custom and IKEA doors, we will use a consistent IKEA door style in place of the custom doors. At the store you can ask IKEA staff to remove only that door type.

Let IKEA do the hard work for you. Don’t try to correct the IKEA shopping list by yourself!

Nobody seems to know why this is happening, but we can’t help but wonder if this is IKEA’s not-so-subtle way of trying to increase sales for their door styles.

Get a Professional IKEA Kitchen Design – All Online

Work with our certified kitchen designers to get a personalized kitchen designed around your needs and vision. If you’re interested in learning more about our service, make sure to check out our IKEA Kitchen Design Services.

Review IKEA design ideas on our Instagram

✨ Upgrade Your Bathroom with DIY Shaker Doors! 

Transform your bathroom with a touch using DIY shaker doors painted in BEHR PPU18-1. This timeless shade brings a sophisticated vibe to any space!

🔨 DIY Tip: Shaker doors are not only stylish but also easy to find at any custom door supplier. Pair them with sleek hardware for that modern look.

🎨 Color Highlight: BEHR PPU18-1 – The perfect balance of bold and neutral!
🤵Subdued Colors For An IKEA Kitchen Major Remodel

Uncluttered surfaces, two-tone cabinets and an accent color, tie this kitchen together. The wood tones and white cabinets heighten a spacious and well-lit style.

Frame Cabinets: @ikea
Accent Door: #bodarpikea 
Custom Fronts: @semihandmade 

Visit our Web-Site
➡️https://inspiredkitchendesign.com/
🕎 IKEA Kosher Kitchen Design Challenges.

We kept their design theme while separating kitchenware, sinks and storage.

➡️ https://inspiredkitchendesign.com/

#IKD #ikea #kitchen #design #homedecor #ikeahack #pastproject #ikeakitchen #whitekitchen #interiordesign #interiorstyling
🧺A Small Laundry Room Design Making Good Use of Space – With IKEA Cabinets

IKEA’s SEKTION kitchen system (SEKTION works great in other rooms like laundry rooms) with IKEA’s AXSTAD cabinets in matte white for the upper and base cabinets; IKEA MAXIMERA internal drawers; as well as IKEA KASKER white quartz custom countertops with a glitter effect; a Whirlpool washer/dryer and a stainless steel utility sink from Webstaurant Store.

✅ The result is a modern, contemporary and functional laundry room design that maximizes every inch of available space for practicality.
Inspired Kitchen Design
#homedecor #ikeahack #design #interiordesign #ikea #seasonalstyle
✨ Upgrade Your Bathroom with DIY Shaker Doors! 

Transform your bathroom with a touch using DIY shaker doors painted in BEHR PPU18-1. This timeless shade brings a sophisticated vibe to any space!

🔨 DIY Tip: Shaker doors are not only stylish but also easy to find at any custom door supplier. Pair them with sleek hardware for that modern look.

🎨 Color Highlight: BEHR PPU18-1 – The perfect balance of bold and neutral!
🤵Subdued Colors For An IKEA Kitchen Major Remodel

Uncluttered surfaces, two-tone cabinets and an accent color, tie this kitchen together. The wood tones and white cabinets heighten a spacious and well-lit style.

Frame Cabinets: @ikea
Accent Door: #bodarpikea 
Custom Fronts: @semihandmade 

Visit our Web-Site
➡️https://inspiredkitchendesign.com/
🕎 IKEA Kosher Kitchen Design Challenges.

We kept their design theme while separating kitchenware, sinks and storage.

➡️ https://inspiredkitchendesign.com/

#IKD #ikea #kitchen #design #homedecor #ikeahack #pastproject #ikeakitchen #whitekitchen #interiordesign #interiorstyling
🧺A Small Laundry Room Design Making Good Use of Space – With IKEA Cabinets

IKEA’s SEKTION kitchen system (SEKTION works great in other rooms like laundry rooms) with IKEA’s AXSTAD cabinets in matte white for the upper and base cabinets; IKEA MAXIMERA internal drawers; as well as IKEA KASKER white quartz custom countertops with a glitter effect; a Whirlpool washer/dryer and a stainless steel utility sink from Webstaurant Store.

✅ The result is a modern, contemporary and functional laundry room design that maximizes every inch of available space for practicality.
✨ Upgrade Your Bathroom with DIY Shaker Doors! 

Transform your bathroom with a touch using DIY shaker doors painted in BEHR PPU18-1. This timeless shade brings a sophisticated vibe to any space!

🔨 DIY Tip: Shaker doors are not only stylish but also easy to find at any custom door supplier. Pair them with sleek hardware for that modern look.

🎨 Color Highlight: BEHR PPU18-1 – The perfect balance of bold and neutral!
🤵Subdued Colors For An IKEA Kitchen Major Remodel

Uncluttered surfaces, two-tone cabinets and an accent color, tie this kitchen together. The wood tones and white cabinets heighten a spacious and well-lit style.

Frame Cabinets: @ikea
Accent Door: #bodarpikea 
Custom Fronts: @semihandmade 

Visit our Web-Site
➡️https://inspiredkitchendesign.com/

See our Pinterest for IKEA design ideas

  • ✅Maximizing Storage in an IKEA Galley Bathroom Getting more Storage from a Limited Space bathroom area. IKD's designers stacked a 24
  • The base cabinet storage makes for easy access to pots, pans, cutlery and other cooking equipment.
  • Work with our certified kitchen designers to get a personalized kitchen designed around your needs and vision. If you’re interested in learning more about our service, make sure to check out our IKEA Kitchen Design Services.
  • 🍂✨ Embrace the beauty of autumn with inspired decorations capturing the essence of the season🍁
  • Transforming a Mid Century Modern Kitchen: IKEA Cabinets and Custom Semihandmade Designs

See our Pinterest for IKEA design ideas

  • ✅Maximizing Storage in an IKEA Galley Bathroom Getting more Storage from a Limited Space bathroom area. IKD's designers stacked a 24
  • The base cabinet storage makes for easy access to pots, pans, cutlery and other cooking equipment.
  • Work with our certified kitchen designers to get a personalized kitchen designed around your needs and vision. If you’re interested in learning more about our service, make sure to check out our IKEA Kitchen Design Services.
  • 🍂✨ Embrace the beauty of autumn with inspired decorations capturing the essence of the season🍁

See our Pinterest for IKEA design ideas

  • ✅Maximizing Storage in an IKEA Galley Bathroom Getting more Storage from a Limited Space bathroom area. IKD's designers stacked a 24
  • The base cabinet storage makes for easy access to pots, pans, cutlery and other cooking equipment.
  • Work with our certified kitchen designers to get a personalized kitchen designed around your needs and vision. If you’re interested in learning more about our service, make sure to check out our IKEA Kitchen Design Services.

IKD Past Projects

  • Overview of white kitchen with IKEA cabinets and IKEA storage

    Overcoming the Unexpected with a Traditional IKEA Kitchen and Bath – Part II

  • A grayscale IKEA kitchen design featuring white kitchen cabinets

    Overcoming the Unexpected with a Traditional IKEA Kitchen and Bath

  • A Connecticut Kitchen Upgrade Designed with IKEA and Semihandmade Doors

  • VOXTORP IKEA kitchen cabinets in mid-century modern kitchen

    DIY Shines in this IKEA Mid-Century Modern Kitchen Update

  • Overview of white kitchen with IKEA cabinets and IKEA storage

    Overcoming the Unexpected with a Traditional IKEA Kitchen and Bath – Part II

  • A grayscale IKEA kitchen design featuring white kitchen cabinets

    Overcoming the Unexpected with a Traditional IKEA Kitchen and Bath

  • A Connecticut Kitchen Upgrade Designed with IKEA and Semihandmade Doors

  • Overview of white kitchen with IKEA cabinets and IKEA storage

    Overcoming the Unexpected with a Traditional IKEA Kitchen and Bath – Part II

  • A grayscale IKEA kitchen design featuring white kitchen cabinets

    Overcoming the Unexpected with a Traditional IKEA Kitchen and Bath

  • A Connecticut Kitchen Upgrade Designed with IKEA and Semihandmade Doors

  • VOXTORP IKEA kitchen cabinets in mid-century modern kitchen

    DIY Shines in this IKEA Mid-Century Modern Kitchen Update

  • Farmhouse-style IKEA kitchen Remodel

    Transforming an Outdated Space into a French Country Farmhouse-style IKEA kitchen-Part 2

  • French Country Farmhouse-style IKEA Kitchen

    Transforming an Outdated Space into a French Country Farmhouse-style IKEA Kitchen-Part 1