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Caffeination Station: Creating a Coffee Bar With IKEA Cabinets

Building a Coffee Bar With IKEA Cabinets - Yes, It’s Possible If you’re wondering about adding a bar or coffee station into your IKEA kitchen: Yes, you can design these areas with IKEA cabinets. In fact, if you like to have your friends around and have extra space, a bar or coffee station are both great ways to add fun and function to your home. They also work well when combining IKEA cabinetry and IKEA SEKTION cabinetry framework. This modern kitchen shows the basics: space for smaller appliances, open shelving for your liquor bottles and a sink. It definitely gives the room a “cool vibe,” plus we added a seating area; a [...]

Using IKEA Cabinetry to Create Your Home Office

Advice on Creating an IKEA Home Office that Suits Any Lifestyle Whether it’s an IKEA kitchen, bathroom or wardrobe area, the idea is simple: Build a space that works. But, it can’t simply work – it has to work for you. That’s where IKD comes in. We know how important the right design is to making the entire home function well. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than with an IKEA home office, a space that allows you to work at peak performance from home. So design-wise, what does that mean? It means that by combining IKEA SEKTION cabinetry framework with your choice of IKEA fronts – say IKEA’s AXSTAD, VEDDINGE [...]

“We never order takeout!” Was This Homeowner’s IKEA Kitchen Design Motivation

Creating 60 Square feet of additional kitchen space helped make it happen! Sometimes you have to knock things down to build them back up again. This was the case for IKD customer Adrianna, who along with her husband Jose, turned their originally small and poorly designed kitchen and seldom-used dining room into a transformed and unique IKEA kitchen. “Our original kitchen was so inefficient for eating healthy meals or spending quality family time. We rarely enjoyed the dining room and realized that we wanted to knock down the wall between the two rooms. It added about 60 ft. of extra space, but it added so much more for our family. Now [...]

Adding Custom Touches To A Modern IKEA Kitchen

An IKD customer shares how color personalizes her upcoming IKEA kitchen This article is based on and inspired by an actual IKD design. We created a customer narrative to make it fun and easier to understand. Designing an IKEA kitchen that meets a customer’s design preferences is one thing. Making sure that it’s ready for the completion of a new home build requires a whole other level of teamwork. That’s why IKD customer Lauren recently agreed to share some of her experiences as she’s working with IKD to create a modern kitchen with custom touches as part of her new construction home. She explains: “We started designing our house about a [...]

Some of our favorite Canadian IKEA kitchen designs

A review of recent IKEA designs Canada, as chosen by IKD Any IKEA customer seeking design inspiration should look no further than our friends in Canada. In fact, the IKD design team has designed many Canadian IKEA kitchens. So for the next installation of “Our Favorite International IKEA Designs” we’d like to share some of those with you. Each kitchen features IKEA’s SEKTION cabinetry framework and a very unique design theme combining a bold choice of colors and materials. This includes a modern, yet warm IKEA kitchen remodel featuring IKEA BODBYN cabinets for IKD customer Andrew from Toronto, Canada; a dynamic kitchen remodel with Semihandmade custom cabinet fronts, conceived by IKD [...]

Our Favorite International IKEA Designs: France

A review of dynamic IKEA designs France For IKEA customers looking to add a little je ne sais quois to their IKEA project, they can definitely get inspiration from our friends in France. In fact, for the IKD design team, this holds true especially for IKEA kitchens as well as IKEA laundry rooms. That’s why for the next installation of “Our Favorite International IKEA Designs” we’d like to share some recent dynamic IKEA designs from France. This includes a modern, clean kitchen for IKD customer Francoise and his wife from Lyon, France that features IKEA’s METOD cabinetry framework and IKEA VOXTORP in glossy white; a new construction kitchen for IKD customer [...]

Baking Should (Literally) Be a Piece of Cake

We can help you design the perfect baking station for your IKEA kitchen If you, like many of us, discovered a passion for baking in the early days of the pandemic, you probably also discovered your kitchen is less than optimized for the production that baking can be – especially if you have a kitchen with a smaller footprint. From messy ingredients to large appliances and accessories like industrial mixers and cooling racks, configuring a dedicated space for baking can be quite a challenge. With so many people embarking on kitchen renovations – and the holidays right around the corner - now is the time to consider how to create a [...]

How To Design ADA-Compliant IKEA Kitchens

Learn how to incorporate ADA-compliant features into your IKEA kitchen Most IKEA customers want an IKEA kitchen that is packed with style and function — a space that truly reflects their lifestyle. For our designers, no other type of kitchen showcases this approach more than ADA-compliant kitchens. For those that don’t know, ADA-compliant means the design adheres to the standards set forth by the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) so that the space is appropriate and accessible for people with disabilities. This often means accessibility for a wheelchair user, including multiple height surfaces for wheelchair access; varied cabinet and appliance heights, or a space with large cabinet handles to make it [...]

Our Favorite International IKEA Kitchen Designs: Australia

Reviewing some dynamic Australian IKEA kitchen designs, as selected by IKD designers For our designers, finding some of the top international IKEA kitchens starts with our friends in Australia. Luckily, we here at IKD have designed some recent Australian IKEA kitchen designs that really reflect the unique cabinet style and organizational options available with IKEA cabinetry. For instance, there’s the modern-looking kitchen featuring IKEA RINGHULT high-gloss white cabinets and IKEA JUTIS aluminum wall cabinets with glass doors for IKD customer Erik from Sydney; a narrow, 1910 farmhouse-style kitchen that features IKEA GRIMSLÖV (called SAVEDAL in Australia) off-white cabinets and ample storage for Melbourne-based IKD customer Trisha; and a newly remodeled IKEA [...]

Wine Storage Ideas for Any IKEA Kitchen

Learn how IKD can build you a functional wine storage area You don’t always need a big budget to have rich taste. This is especially true when designing a wine storage area in your IKEA kitchen - regardless of its size. In fact, according to our team of certified design professionals, there are many ways to establish an eye-catching and accessible wine storage area simply by combining the right IKEA cabinets with IKEA’s SEKTION cabinetry framework. This holds true whether you have a large wine collection or if your kitchen seems too small but you still want to keep some bottles on hand for entertaining. Specifically, you can incorporate a unique [...]

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