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She’s very particular about Storage for her culinary Equipment – in her IKEA Kitchen

This home didn’t feel like home until the open-concept IKEA kitchen was complete. For someone who loves cooking, baking, and entertaining, a galley kitchen is the stuff of nightmares. This is how IKD customer Phyllis felt when she found the right home at the right price—with the wrong kitchen. Small kitchens have all the necessary components but lack warmth and welcome. The decision to gut the galley and create an open-concept kitchen was easy for this Connecticut homeowner. We spoke with Phyllis’s daughter, Kristin, about the project. She explained that cooking is her mother’s passion, and she is very particular about her culinary equipment and how it should be organized. For [...]

Transitional-Style IKEA Mudroom Fits Neatly into Colonial Home

Overlooked areas in your home can be transformed into mudrooms with IKEA’s AXSTAD cabinets. You’ve recently moved into a new home and are very eager to remodel using IKEA cabinets. Great. Maybe you’ve already renovated your master bathroom using IKEA materials and were pleased with the results. Now you’ve set your sights on building an IKEA mudroom in the only underused room in your home. However while you know you want the mudroom to complement the aesthetics of the home (especially the abutting kitchen), you also need time to acclimate to the mudroom space and make sure you understand all of your storage needs. This was the main challenge facing customer [...]

IKEA Drawer Organizers vs.
Rev-A-Shelf Drawer Organizers

Which drawer organizers and inserts work best for your IKEA kitchen design? More than ever, homeowners are designing all-drawer IKEA kitchens, which means drawer organizers are more important than ever. With hundreds of organizing options to choose from, where do you start? If you have an IKEA kitchen, it makes sense to start at IKEA. However, many of our customers want to avoid settling for the first organizer they come across. Rev-A-Shelf's line of innovative drawers and drawer organizers provides more function and usable storage space than the IKEA alternatives. Find out why IKD customers prefer Rev-A-Shelf’s drawer organizers over IKEA’s in the article below. RAS Double Knife Block [...]

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How to Make all Your IKEA Kitchen Cabinets Accessible

Rev-A-shelf Organizers Solve Challenging Areas in your IKEA Kitchen Organizing your IKEA kitchen cabinets and drawers is hard enough without any curve balls. In kitchen design, these curveballs come in the form of corners, pipes, vents, and space that you don’t want to waste—but also can’t reach. To make the most of your kitchen storage, you must find a way around plumbing, blind corners, and high cabinets. One advantage of choosing a professional kitchen designer rather than an IKEA planner is that a professional knows the best products to handle these complex design challenges. Our designers know these internal organization solutions rarely come from IKEA. Rev-A-Shelf is our go-to company when [...]

San Francisco/LA IKEA Installer says IKD offers him the Clearest Path for his Kitchen Projects

And grumbles that IKEA’s new Home Planner software doesn’t do hacks or show non-IKEA appliances!You’re an IKEA customer — perhaps even an experienced DIYer — who’s planning a kitchen remodel using IKEA cabinets. It’s an exciting time! You’ve made sure you’ve done your research; established your budget and selected the IKEA cabinets (or custom cabinets) that you plan for your design.However you’ve also likely realized that there’s more to a successful IKEA kitchen installation than simply assembling your cabinets and hanging them on a wall using the IKEA SEKTION kitchen system. There’s much more. This includes taking accurate measurements; taking proper inventory on delivery day; navigating the IKEA Home Planner and understanding [...]

Which Rev-A-Shelf Pullout Waste Container is Right for Your IKEA Kitchen?

Pullout waste containers are a staple in modern kitchens. Find the one that best suits your needs with Rev-A-Shelf. How often do you think about your waste container? Hopefully, the answer is never—at least, not unless it needs to be taken out. However, if the placement, size, or style bothers you, you probably think about it every time you throw something away. It’s time to do something about that—especially if you’re planning an IKEA kitchen renovation. Nothing goes together like Rev-A-Shelf and IKEA for internal organization. You probably know that we think highly of Rev-A-Shelf, not just for the company’s product quality but also for its product range. While IKEA trash [...]

Are All Drawers the New Doors in IKEA Kitchens?

Homeowners who value both form and function request them for their IKEA kitchen designs. We can all agree that rollout trashcans are the best thing to hit kitchen design since the dishwasher. Your garbage no longer takes up valuable real estate on the kitchen floor, and you no longer have to struggle to access a hidden garbage pail. It began with solutions like those brought to you by Rev-A-Shelf internal cabinet organizers. If you utilize something like Rev-A-Shelf’s soft-close aluminum bottom-mount waste container, you can fit your garbage and recycling in the same cabinet and have easy access to both. Many of their wooden bottom-mount waste containers have room for trash, [...]

  • Examples of Rev-a-Shelf kitchen organizer options

Kitchen Cabinet Organizers: Rev-A-Shelf vs. IKEA

Designing Functional Kitchen Cabinet Organization and Storage IKEA sells internal organizers in addition to everything else they provide, like cabinets, furniture, countertops, appliances, Swedish meatballs, pink toilet paper, dog-butt wall hooks, and succulents. The point here is that while IKEA is an amazing place to shop for household products, they don’t specialize in a particular area of the home. Meanwhile, Rev-A-Shelf’s focus is clear: home storage and organization. Rev-A-Shelf provides an array of innovative organizers for every home from pantry and blind corner pull-outs to bathroom vanity and bedroom closet solutions. IKD is proud to be an authorized Rev-A-Shelf partner. External and Internal Cabinet Design are Equally Important IKEA [...]

Tampa, Florida IKEA Kitchen Installer says IKEA’s got Stock!

How hiring professional IKEA kitchen installers will make your kitchen remodel a success. A new IKEA customer looking to remodel their existing kitchen will have a lot of decisions to make, including product choices and design theme selection while learning how to navigate the remodeling process. One thing can make a huge difference in the success of your IKEA kitchen remodel: Hiring a professional cabinet installer. That’s why IKD is talking with IKEA-certified cabinet installers to learn more about the advantages for homeowners instead of them going it alone. For this blog, we sat down with Terry, owner, of Tampa, FL-based The Kitchen Installers who shared some insider tips about using [...]

A Virginia IKEA Kitchen Installer’s Insights: Costs and Designs

He also shares some clever cabinet hacks most homeowners don’t know about. For IKEA customers, a kitchen remodel project can be an overwhelming experience – especially when starting the cabinet installation process. That’s why our design team highly suggests finding certified IKEA cabinet installers, in your area. There are simply too many details involved with IKEA cabinet installation that only experts will notice. This includes taking proper measurements; keeping track of inventory and dealing with IKEA’s supply chain delays, plus many more. Understanding this is crucial to the success, timeliness and ease of the installation (for your family as well as for the professionals designing and installing your kitchen!) These are [...]

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