By Javier,

April 11, 2016

By Javier |

April 11, 2016

How to maximize your IKEA kitchen using custom door options

One of the questions we receive quite often is, “I want an IKEA kitchen, but I don’t like IKEA’s doors. Can you design my kitchen with custom doors?”

The answer is: yes! At least 25 percent of our customers buy custom doors for their IKEA kitchens. Take a look through our portfolio and you’ll see quite a few kitchens using doors made by other companies.

In fact, if you’re designing with custom doors, we think you need us even more!
Let’s explore.


Why Design
with IKD?

Why Design with IKD?


#1 The most important thing to know about using custom doors with your IKEA kitchen

The IKEA Home Planner will not let you design kitchen cabinets without doors. You are forced to place a door – any door – in order to complete your design.

We know what you’re thinking. You’ll just put the doors into your design and then take them out at the last minute. Sadly, this will not work.

If you remove the doors, the Home Planner will also remove all of the hardware you need to complete the cabinet. None of those items will be added to your shopping list and you will leave IKEA with incomplete kitchen materials.

So how can you get around this severe limitation of the IKEA Home Planner?

What we do for our customers is add doors. Any doors. And we tell them over and over that when they go to the store, they need to tell the IKEA kitchen associate to remove the doors from their shopping list. Only IKEA staff can convert your design file into a shopping list. So, they have to be the ones to remove the doors!

#2 What using custom doors means for your home planner file

You can put the dummy doors into your design. But then you won’t be able to see what your kitchen will really look like. This is just one place that the IKD design file is so much better than the Home Planner.

Our renderings will reflect the styles and colors of the custom doors you buy. Take a look at this post to see how IKD’s rendering differs from the IKEA Home Planner file.

#3 You’ll need our design file to get an accurate quote for custom doors

We work closely with companies like Semihandmade doors. So we know exactly the design format they need to get you a quote. Let us design your kitchen, and you can submit that file to your door fabricator for a quote.

Interested in getting custom doors? here’s who our customers recommend

Our IKEA kitchen customers have ordered custom doors for their IKEA kitchen cabinets from:

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

✨Designing a Gloss White, Minimal IKEA kitchen in a Mid-Century Home

IKEA Kitchen designed with RINGHULT high gloss including a combination of natural lighting and recessed lighting

DM us to make your dream kitchen a reality!

/inspiredkitchendesign.com
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What’s your favorite fall design trend? 👇🍂

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🎞️Luxury Home Theaters that are Well-Designed IKEA Media Centers in Disguise

Whether your ideal entertainment center involves closed storage, open storage, or a combination of both, our designers will create a built-in design customized to how you use the room.

🍿LEARN MORE ➡️https://inspiredkitchendesign.com/luxury-home-theaters-that-are-well-designed-ikea-media-centers-in-disguise/
#ikea Mid-Century Modern Kitchen Update 

The entire project took just under three months to transform an Out-Of-Date Kitchen space  into A Mid Century Modern kitchen.

Read more about this past project
➡️https://inspiredkitchendesign.com/diy-shines-in-this-ikea-mid-century-modern-kitchen-update

@inspiredkitchendesign 

#IKD #ikeausa #kitchen #homedecor #ikeahome #ikeahack
🖥️IKEA Home Offices [Inspiration For Style And Design]

IKEA’s SEKTION cabinets frames work with fronts from third-party custom door manufacturers. We design the IKEA offices and the right custom doors for them.

➡️https://inspiredkitchendesign.com/tag/offices/

#IKD #ikea #homeoffice #design #deskorganization #homedecor #officedesign #ikeahack
✨Designing a Gloss White, Minimal IKEA kitchen in a Mid-Century Home

IKEA Kitchen designed with RINGHULT high gloss including a combination of natural lighting and recessed lighting

DM us to make your dream kitchen a reality!

/inspiredkitchendesign.com
🍂✨ Embrace the beauty of autumn with inspired decorations capturing the essence of the season🍁

What’s your favorite fall design trend? 👇🍂

#autmndesign #fallvibes #seasonalstyle #homedecor #inspiration #cozyvibes #designgoals
🎞️Luxury Home Theaters that are Well-Designed IKEA Media Centers in Disguise

Whether your ideal entertainment center involves closed storage, open storage, or a combination of both, our designers will create a built-in design customized to how you use the room.

🍿LEARN MORE ➡️https://inspiredkitchendesign.com/luxury-home-theaters-that-are-well-designed-ikea-media-centers-in-disguise/
#ikea Mid-Century Modern Kitchen Update 

The entire project took just under three months to transform an Out-Of-Date Kitchen space  into A Mid Century Modern kitchen.

Read more about this past project
➡️https://inspiredkitchendesign.com/diy-shines-in-this-ikea-mid-century-modern-kitchen-update

@inspiredkitchendesign 

#IKD #ikeausa #kitchen #homedecor #ikeahome #ikeahack
✨Designing a Gloss White, Minimal IKEA kitchen in a Mid-Century Home

IKEA Kitchen designed with RINGHULT high gloss including a combination of natural lighting and recessed lighting

DM us to make your dream kitchen a reality!

/inspiredkitchendesign.com
🍂✨ Embrace the beauty of autumn with inspired decorations capturing the essence of the season🍁

What’s your favorite fall design trend? 👇🍂

#autmndesign #fallvibes #seasonalstyle #homedecor #inspiration #cozyvibes #designgoals

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Full kitchen remodel with IKEA SEKTION cabinets and Semihandmade Cabinet doors

    How Customizing IKEA Cabinets Transformed this Maryland Kitchen Remodel

  • Couple Creates IKEA Kitchen and Bath with an ‘Updated Traditional’ Style