IKEA Kitchen Planner Not Working? Try Our Solution

Exploring the Limitations and Challenges with IKEA’s Home Planner Software

Why oh why is the IKEA Kitchen Planner so difficult to use? Or, in the words of one of our kitchen design customers, a real PITA (pain in the a**).

It’s almost like the IKEA Kitchen Planner is just not that into you. But instead of just dumping you, it tries to annoy you so much that you dump it.

Is the IKEA Kitchen Planner Really That Bad?

Don’t believe us? Browse Houzz.com and you’ll see lots of frustration. The common theme was, “You really have to fight with the IKEA Home Planner.”

This post, “Does the [sic] IKEA Kitchen Planner Actually Work????” is pretty typical of the experiences we hear from our customers.

This commenter was having a problem with being unable to rotate cabinets and appliances in the kitchen planner. Enough of a problem that their hair was put on the endangered species list.

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So maybe that was just the OP’s problem. Right? Wrong. There was an outpouring of commentary from Houzz forum members!

Call us crazy but we don’t think designing a kitchen should be “infuriating”! We also hate to see people losing hours and hours of time trying to make cabinets show up (or go away) in the IKEA kitchen planner, which is just one of the reasons to avoid IKEA’s Home Planner.

Should it really take the IKEA planning tool more than 7 minutes to remove a deleted dishwasher from the design?

And after all of that frustration, this commenter can only save their hours and hours of work with the planner 25 percent of the time?

Do you really want to go through all of that just to get an IKEA kitchen for your home?

Why Is IKEA’s Kitchen Planner Website So Bad?

The IKEA Kitchen Planner is glitchy and full of bugs, which makes it a real pain for people to use.

In fact, it’s so glitchy and problematic that IKEA and its contractors have a secret version of the IKEA Kitchen Planner that they use!

We learned from our Secret Shopper, Ray S., that IKEA have access to a better version of the app that doesn’t have the glitches and problems in the one the rest of us are stuck using.

Even worse, IKEA has no plans to roll out this better version of the IKEA Kitchen Planner to the public.

Forget the Kitchen Planner – Maybe it’s IKEA that’s just not that into you!

Most Common Problems with IKEA Kitchen Planner

As should be obvious by now, the IKEA kitchen planner has more than a few bugs in its system. Here are the most common ones:

IKEA Kitchen Planner Can’t Move Objects

If you want to move a cabinet from one wall to another, you’re going to run into problems. This is because the IKEA kitchen planner is just terrible at moving objects around.

You can get around this by switching the view multiple times… or you could just use IKD’s kitchen design service and save yourself the (multiple) headaches.

IKEA Kitchen Planner Not Working on Chrome

You would think that such a universal planning tool would work smoothly on all web browsers – but you’d be wrong.

Historically, if you were a Google Chrome user, you were going to have a hard time getting the Kitchen Planner to work.

They might have fixed this issue by now, but it’s way safer just to open the Kitchen Planner in Firefox or Safari (and safer still to just get in touch with us and let us design your dream kitchen).

Has the IKEA Kitchen Planner Gotten Any Easier to Use?

That Houzz post was from 2015, just after IKEA rolled out its new kitchen line, SEKTION. Maybe IKEA was still working through the issues. Right?

Wrong.

That thread has 85 comments on it with the most recent from April 21, 2017.

The IKEA Kitchen Planner is still clunky, it still crashes, and it still won’t give you the kitchen design you want!

It’s time to take the hint about your relationship with the IKEA Kitchen Planner: it’s just not that into you, girl.

Does That Mean You Should Forget Getting the Affordable Luxury of an IKEA Kitchen? No!

We wish that last commenter had found us before giving up and buying kitchen cabinets somewhere else.

Sometimes I joke that IKD is the IKEA kitchen whisperer, or the great relationship saver. The IKEA kitchen planner may not be that into you, but, an IKD intervention will make that kitchen planner behave, and you’ll get the IKEA kitchen you’ve been dying for.

We know all of the problems and pitfalls of the IKEA Kitchen Planner and how to work around them.

We haven’t even told you the worst problem with the IKEA Kitchen Planner yet. Even if you can get the Kitchen Planner to work, it will actually give you an unsafe kitchen.

The IKEA Kitchen Planner Isn’t Just a Pain to Use. It Will Actually Make Your Kitchen Design Dangerous

How do you feel about an IKEA kitchen that lacks important safety features?

We urge you to read the post we just linked that will tell you about all of the safety warnings you need to look out for in your IKEA kitchen design if you use the planner.

There’s a better solution, however. You can hire us!

Don’t pull out your hair or lose hours to the IKEA Kitchen Planner. It’s just not that into you! Instead, let us wrangle it so you can get your new IKEA kitchen ASAP.