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Mid-Century Modern Style with Semihandmade + IKEA: Accomplished!

Reviewing how a DIY kitchen remodel can create a retro look For IKD customer John his IKEA kitchen remodel wasn’t just big on style, it was Texas-sized style. “We’re based in a suburb of Houston that is trying to preserve Mid-Century Modern houses from the 1950’s and 60’s. We really wanted a modern design with retro touches and we had a strong preference for wood doors. From a functional standpoint, we wanted an appliance garage [to house] our toaster oven, toaster and coffee maker. We were able to achieve all these goals with IKEA cabinets which were upgraded with Semihandmade doors,” he explains. In fact,it was while researching custom cabinets from [...]

IKEA Garbage Bin Cabinets: Waste-Sorting Kitchen Design Tips

Clever Tips for Turning Your IKEA Base Cabinetry Into an Effective Garbage Bin If you’re confused by IKEA’s waste sorting system for kitchens, this post will provide some answers. IKEA basically has 2 options for trash bin cabinets in the kitchen. You can turn any IKEA base cabinet with a door into a trash cabinet. Or, you could use IKEA’s base cabinets designed especially for trash. These two options work differently and come with their own limitations. Now, let’s walk through the options to build a clean, organized waste bin area into your IKEA cabinets. Option #1: Turn Any IKEA Kitchen Base Cabinet Into a Trash Bin Cabinet You can stick [...]

Setting Up a Home Office with IKEA Cabinets

Designing Home Offices is as detailed as Kitchen Designs Home is where the heart is, and an IKEA home office is where the work gets done! According to our design team, a home office project is an ideal area for IKEA customers to boost their productivity while adding style and efficiency to their home (and potentially adding resale value as well). That said, there are two recent IKEA home office projects we’ve completed — one for IKD customers Nicholas and Javier from Portland, OR; and the other for customer Ken from Tenafly, NJ, which combine IKEA SEKTION cabinetry framework with IKEA cabinets to create stylish, functional and cost-effective home office designs. [...]

Why I used IKEA Cabinets in a Multimillion Dollar Home

I did quite a few out-of-the-box things in my custom build. But this one probably takes the cake. I did IKEA cabinets in multi million dollar home. Gasp! The Recommended Path When it came time to think about cabinets, I took my builder’s recommendation. He was a good guy and had worked with a custom cabinet-maker in town for decades. He really trusted them- they’d done a great job for his clients innumerable times over the years. We sat down and talked about what I was looking for. They took a couple of weeks and sent in their drawings. My heart sank. Was this what people raved about? Not only did it [...]

Optimizing Your Kitchen Layout: Which Shape Suits Your Home?

Common Kitchen Layouts to Kick Off Your IKEA Remodel When it comes to remodeling your kitchen with IKEA cabinetry, it’s important to understand what can and can’t be done within your existing footprint. Do you have a tiny galley but want “open floor plan living” with an L-shaped layout? Or maybe your kitchen is big enough, but the appliances and cabinetry just aren’t syncing up with the way you cook, entertain, and live. Sometimes, sorting out what you can actually do with your existing kitchen becomes the biggest pain point of a remodel. It’s essential to have a realistic and objective idea of what kind of layout will work for your [...]

How custom doors can improve an all-white IKEA kitchen

A study in using Semihandmade Classic Walnut doors to full effect. 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. Any IKEA customer wanting to truly enjoy their kitchen and ready to remodel will relate to this next story. Imagine your kitchen not only doesn’t reflect your style, but still reflects that of the previous owner. Now imagine that kitchen is all white with wasted space. This was the challenge facing Nancy from River Vale, NJ, whose original 168-square-foot kitchen was overrun with white countertops, white appliances and white cabinets – even white flooring! “I [...]

Our Favorite Sources for IKEA Design Inspiration in 2022

It’s official - for the first time in 70 years, IKEA is not releasing a print or digital version of its famed catalogue - the annual photo-filled design inspo fest that sits on millions of coffee tables and in reading baskets around the world. Although it was officially announced this summer, if you aren’t an avid follower of design news you may have missed the memo. And chances are you’re missing thumbing through its pages with Post-Its and writing notes like an analogue Pinterest board for your future design projects and renovations. At IKD, we’ve rounded up a few of our favorite resources for IKEA design inspiration, along with some of [...]

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 [...]

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