ikea cabinet planner says 2 inches for filler

Which was a good thing since we were doing this on a Friday afternoon, which is pretty much the last time you should attempt traveling I-95 South near Ikea (we were doing a few other things in the area, so it definitely wouldn’t have been the time we’d pick if we were just hitting Ikea and returning home). It wasn’t perfectly white, but we’re used to Ikea stuff being ever so slightly creamy.Įverything was in stock, so about an hour (and 800-some-dollars) later we were packed up and back on the road. The Adel, even though it was labeled “off-white” appeared to be a lot closer to the solid white look we wanted.

Online the Ramsjo looked closest to what we wanted, but in person it had more of a whitewashed wood look (with some pink undertones). While we were there, we also made a change in our cabinet door decision. She also helped to point out some trim that we might want to add to hide our under cabinet lighting (last minute decision = under cabinet lighting, just to help us see & treat stains more easily). I’m glad we arrived with an idea of what we wanted (it saved a ton of time!) but I’m also glad we consulted with one of their employees before our purchase (it saved some unnecessary purchases when she went through the list and explained that some things weren’t necessary for this type of installation).

The above shot is the plan after the kitchen expert at Ikea helped us fine-tune things.

Before long we had a plan and a shopping list that we could print out and bring to the store. In general it’s a pretty easy (and free!) online tool to play around with – although I did have to insert a dishwasher into my plan, since they don’t have a dryer option. We actually used it before to help envision our last kitchen, even though we weren’t purchasing their cabinets. We started by using their online Kitchen Planner to map out the space. So the laundry room felt like a perfect lower-risk test space to learn the process and to help us determine if we want to go this route in the kitchen down the line. It’s funny that despite all of the Ikea in our life, we’ve never actually dabbled in their cabinetry.

We’ve done the custom cabinet thing in our first house, and the second-hand / work-with-what-you’ve-got thing in our second house (we refinished our existing cabinets and added used ones from the Habitat ReStore). We hear great things about them and pretty consistently see them popping up in high end homes thanks to magazines like Dwell, Domino, and House Beautiful, yet we’ve gone a bunch of other routes in the past. We’ve been wanting to take Ikea cabinets for a spin since we’re heavily considering them for our eventual kitchen remodel. I’ll get into appliance installation details next week (getting the overflow drain and washer pan connected took some effort) but today is all about cabinets. We were simultaneously trying to hang Ikea cabinets in our laundry room and re-hook up the washer & dryer, but as of yesterday morning we were sort of stuck half-way through both projects and this was the best progress shot we thought we’d have for you today:īut thanks to some last minute pieces falling into place over the last 24 hours, we have working appliances that have been completely re-installed (picture Sherry dancing for no less than twenty minutes with an elated baby in her arms laughing at her) and doors on our all of our cabinets (more dancing – also singing). This post was shaping up to be a weird one (well, weirder than our baseline weird).

Ikea cabinet planner says 2 inches for filler