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Small Kitchen Designs Inspired by Large IKEA Showroom Displays

Making IKEA’s BODBYN and SEKTION products work for a small kitchen design. IKD Customer Esther walked through IKEA’s showrooms and fell in love with the BODBYN kitchen. The showroom had off-white BODBYN drawer and door fronts on SEKTION cabinets, a white quartz countertop, a double sink, tons of storage, and an island with a butcher block countertop. However, Esther’s kitchen was only 90 square feet, and she struggled with cooking, storage, and workspace. Could the IKEA products she was seeing help solve her problems and upgrade the look at the same time? With the right design, any look is possible—even in a kitchen that’s 90 square feet or less. Those with [...]

Wood-Toned Modern Kitchen Design with Custom IKEA Cabinets

A sublime kitchen design with soft whites and wood, flat-paneled doors and custom IKEA cabinets. If you’re starting your first IKEA kitchen and feel overwhelmed, you’re not alone. First-time IKEA customers often do initially. Between navigating the IKEA Home Planner; researching kitchen design and kitchen cabinet options that suit your vision (and budget!) and — if you’re DIYers — understanding how to properly install your IKEA cabinets, there’s plenty of IKEA idiosyncrasies to learn. This is especially true if your kitchen needs a lot of customization. Fortunately, if you collaborate with design professionals, chances are you’ll feel like an expert when your kitchen project is complete. This was what happened for [...]

IKEA’s pre-cut laminate countertops will make your kitchen lovely for less

Design using IKEA pre-cut laminate countertops without sacrificing style. Most homeowners go a little weak-kneed when they see a quartz countertop. And granite? Perfection.Then they see the price, and that feeling becomes something more like a heart attack. With IKEA’s laminate countertops, you get the look of quartz and granite (stone) for a fraction of the cost, or you can choose a look that’s impossible to achieve with stone—also for a fraction of the cost. With the right product and design (and maybe even the right sale), you’ll get the kitchen you want while saving about 90% of the amount you’d spend on other countertops. Why has “laminate” become a bad [...]

Two IKEA Mudrooms Focused Completely on Storage and Organization

Designing well planned areas that draw the line between inside and out. If you’re looking to re-imagine storage options in your home using IKEA cabinets — either while remodeling or with a new construction — IKEA mudrooms are the answer. They draw the line between inside and outdoors and allow you to enjoy both stress-free. So what do customers want in mudrooms? Number one, homeowners tell us they need dedicated and well-designed storage to better organize outdoor clothes and gear and to do so in a streamlined way. “For storage, customers prefer doors over drawers to better hide things, like shoes, boots and sports equipment for the kids. People have busy [...]

Understanding the Pros and Cons of an L-Shaped IKEA Kitchen

A designer's review of the common pitfalls of L-shaped kitchens — and how to avoid them. L-shaped kitchens are very distinctive and formed by your home's architecture. How will you know? It features two open ends, formed by two sections of adjoining cabinets which forms — you guessed it — an L-shape layout. L-shaped kitchens are ideal for single cooks with small and medium-sized kitchen and very conducive to an open floorplan layout. So for a variety of reasons L-shaped IKEA kitchens are popular. When designed properly they’re adaptable, unique and easy to renovate. If not handled correctly though there can be real challenges for IKEA customers. As experts in all [...]

Small Home Office Gets an IKEA Custom-Style Makeover

Customizing the height and depth of the five IKEA base cabinets fully utilized the space. You move into your new home, want to remodel your home office and realize the previous owner’s style is most definitely not yours. Fair enough, you need a fresh start. But then you notice the awkward (L-shaped) layout is not really conducive to your plans. Add to that your time and energy are limited and you’re now in over your head — unless you get design help. This is exactly what happened to customer Michael from Baltimore, MD, when he decided to remodel his inefficient and modern-styled home office. “I moved into my home in the [...]

A Step-by-Step Guide to a Beautiful IKEA Laundry Room

Simple tips to make your IKEA laundry room more practical, stylish — and fun Laundry is a necessity. For many, unfortunately, that means a tedious (and time-consuming!) chore with lots of sorting; loading and unloading; drying and folding. Rinse and repeat. If you don’t have a dedicated IKEA laundry room, those tasks become even less enjoyable. But fear not. As experts in IKEA designs, we’re here to tell you there’re plenty of things that can be done design-wise to make it a more pleasant experience. “One of the keys is to know that laundry rooms have four primary areas and functions: Entry and prep; washing; drying; and storage and ironing. It’s [...]

What makes a good IKEA kitchen design? A checklist – Part II

Part 2 in a series about the checklist items for a successful IKEA design We have been taking a look at some points you need to review right after your design has been completed and before you start building. This is the second part of this series. You can always take a look at the first part right here. We’ll continue this checklist with other three important features of your kitchen that need to be checked. You’ll have to ask yourself the following: 5. Have you planned sufficient under-cabinet lighting? When you have enough lighting for your countertop in your IKEA kitchen, you are also helping to prevent accidents: it ensures [...]

A Checklist for a High-quality IKEA Kitchen Design

Tips from Professional Kitchen Designers to Get Your Kitchen Remodel Right the First Time You finalized your IKEA kitchen design. It’s time to take your list, go to the store, buy materials, and get started, right? Not just yet! Before starting your IKEA kitchen remodeling project, use our curated checklist created by IKD’s kitchen design professionals to account for frequently overlooked details. After all, a good IKEA kitchen design is much easier to review when you have a checklist. This article provides our top remodel tips to help you get it right the first time. The Details of an IKEA Kitchen Remodel The frequently overlooked details in a remodel range from [...]

How a Traditional(ish) IKEA Kitchen Opened Up a Full House Remodel

A turn-of-the-century home gets a new but traditional IKEA kitchen. Having an outdated kitchen is bad, but having one that is out of touch with your needs is even worse. And when the kitchen — which is supposed to be the heart of the home — is actually hindering progress on your whole-house remodel project, something has to be done. How can you entertain properly with a cramped kitchen space? How can your kitchen be effective for everyday activities if it has no flow? Not very enjoyable. This was the situation for Jaime from Tacoma, WA, whose turn-of-the-century home was in need of a major kitchen remodel to open it up [...]

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