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Small but mighty: IKD’s top tips for getting the maximum out of minimum kitchen space

Practical storage solutions for the smallest IKEA kitchens Is a small kitchen cramping your style? Not to worry, IKD is here to the rescue! We have the experience and know-how to help you maximize your kitchen's tiny footprint, even if you can't imagine how to accomplish it yourself. Your older abode may ooze with charm, but if you're still living with a kitchen of yesteryear, you already know kitchen design concepts have changed dramatically in the past few decades. Kitchens of the past (even in very large homes) were usually minimized in favor of larger living spaces, but today's best kitchens are as much living space as cooking space. The kitchen is [...]

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IKEA kitchen hack: A cabinet of many uses

Taking a closer look at one of our signature IKEA kitchen hacks Level of difficulty: easy This is one of our favorite IKEA kitchen hacks because: It’s inexpensive It’s easy to do You don’t have to cut any cabinets, so you won’t void your warranty You can use this cabinet hack to store just about anything You have room for this hack in your IKEA kitchen if you have 18” of space between the countertop and the bottom of your 30” wide wall cabinets. Basically, you flip a wall cabinet on its side, attach a door with a horizontal door hinge and voila! You have a concealed area on your countertop [...]

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  • Kitchen Design vs. Kitchen Plans

Kitchen Designs versus Kitchen Plans

Kitchen Design Helps Bring Your IKEA Kitchen to LifeWhen it comes to kitchens, IKEA is careful about the word Design. They don’t use the word when describing their services. Instead, they discuss your kitchen “plan” and provide the IKEA Home Planner tool.The difference between the words design and plan is vast. Yet most IKEA kitchen buyers don’t notice or understand the difference. A professional kitchen designer can help you create your dream kitchen more efficiently than the IKEA Home Planner. This article will explain how.How are Professional Kitchen Design and the IKEA Home Planner Different? IKEA’s Home Planner is useful…if you want to play Tetris with your kitchen [...]

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IKEA kitchen hack: class up a DIY desk with a custom lap drawer

Practical solutions for incorporating a custom lap drawer IKEA’s desk options are as endless as its kitchen options. You can purchase one of its ready-to-go options, or you can make use of their “table bar system.” Pick out the tabletop and legs, and you’re ready to go! Unless you want to add storage. Unfortunately IKEA doesn’t sell a separate, individual lap drawer for their mix and match desk tables. Luckily, making one yourself is pretty easy. This is particularly smart for a kitchen, because you can have the SEKTION drawer front for the lap drawer match the other kitchen cabinet doors and drawer fronts. The lap drawer is a low IKEA [...]

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A modern IKEA kitchen renovation in less than a month

An affordable makeover highlights this small IKEA kitchen Anthony and his wife Daniela’s newly purchased 1950s home needed a lot of renovation before they could move in. They chose IKEA for their kitchen and IKD for their kitchen design, to help them stick to their budget and their timeline for moving in. This was their old 10’ x 10’ kitchen, which had last been renovated in the 1990s: And here’s the “after” shot, from the same view: When I interviewed Anthony, he and his wife had been cooking in the kitchen for three weeks and were deeply in love. […]

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