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IKD Kitchen Fave: An IKEA Kitchen Down Under

Talking with IKD founder Mike about one of his favorite kitchen designs At IKD, we love all of the kitchens we design for our clients…but we still have our favorites. In this series we’ll share IKD team members’ favorite kitchen designs. Mike Toth, Founder IKD Team Member: Mike Role: Founder, Designer Why this is his favorite kitchen: “This kitchen reminds me of my own. It’s both traditional and modern. I want to cook in my kitchen, not eat. But I can keep guests nearby for talking and entertaining.” This Australian kitchen has been included in more than a hundred ideabooks on Houzz.com, a very popular [...]

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Read this before you take photos of your kitchen for IKD

Taking the best photos of your IKEA kitchen is a snap You and your camera are IKD’s window into what your kitchen really looks like and what we’re reallyworking with for your kitchen redesign. The more we know about your kitchen, the better. Great photos lead to a great design. You don’t even need a fancy camera to take the kind of great photos we need. You can take them with your smartphone. So what makes for great photos? Wonder no more. We’ve got you covered. […]

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How to Increase Your Kitchen’s Counter Space

Five Tips for easily increasing Counter Space so your IKEA Kitchen works for you One of the most frequent design requests we hear is, “I want to improve or increase counter space in my new IKEA kitchen.” With an intelligent IKEA kitchen design, it is possible to make your space work. For a busy cook, lack of a proper work space can be a nightmare. Where will you chop those vegetables? Where will you leave those sizzling pots of chili while you wash the dishes? If you’re considering changing your kitchen layout, we have some tips to increase your counter space. This article looks at each one. [...]

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  • IKEA Cabinetry for a spice rack

Spice storage under your kitchen cabinets – so easy!

Spice storage can be a pain. We hate spice racks. They take up so much space and they tend to look messy. There’s also the hassle of opening a door and then look for the one you need. If you have more spice jars than most racks can handle, we propose the following solution: With these shelves, your spices are never going to be hidden in a drawer. […]

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  • IKEA Kitchen Cabinets in a Craft Room

An IKEA craft room with kitchen cabinets

An expert look at how to establish a perfect IKEA craft room Cupboards, cubicles, crevices, corners and containers can’t begin to handle a crafter’s contents. Crafters know that there is nothing worse than a disorganized work space. Kitchen cabinets sort it all out, especially when combined with with IKEA’s storage solutions and drawer inserts to easily classify and store all supplies. See this idea for a neat IKEA craft room with kitchen cabinets! What's needed for this IKEA craft room? Our design takes advantage of the white cabinet tradition in craft rooms - used mainly for its clean and sleek look. Also because it’s an easy color to combine [...]

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  • IKEA Kitchen corner cabinets

Storage solutions: kitchen corner cabinets

How to use kitchen corner cabinets to maximum effect It’s senseless to be 'backed into a corner', or suffer a poor design, for corner base cabinets. The average kitchen has only one and there’s at least six feet of available storage space available. Designed well, the corner base cabinet is an ideal place to store large, clunky and not often used wares. When it comes to deciding what type of base corner cabinet works best, IKEA has two types: a 'blind' corner or a 'pie cut corner'. The pie-cut corner cabinets are 38” wide along the back of each of the two sides. They have two doors joined by hinges that [...]

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Using different wall cabinet heights in your IKEA kitchen

Our designers share tips for integrating any height cabinet into your kitchen layout There are lots more opportunities to create a better kitchen design with wall cabinets than with base cabinets. The wall cabinet’s height and depth, along with the installation height, gives more to work with. Ordinary kitchens use a row of same-height 30” high wall cabinets, leaving about 11.5” of free space for an average 96” high ceiling. We’d like to see you break that up some by stacking IKEA wall cabinets - two 15” high units on top of one another. Placing a few 40” high cabinets between 30” high ones end that “same-height” look in its tracks! You’ll [...]

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