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Why doesn't the Ikea Kitchen planner work for me?

27 replies

KatyMac · 28/01/2012 20:26

It says I have the wrong browser - I use Firefox which is one of their choices

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icapturethecastle · 28/01/2012 23:49

I think internet explorer works best. I use google chrome and it will work however I had a right faff, kept freezing all the time etc. So I went back to IE to do it.

SwedishEdith · 29/01/2012 00:09

It hates Firefox. Mind you,so do I

startail · 29/01/2012 00:13

Chrome hates me, it refuses to restore my tabs. Haven't tried the Ikea planner was going to have a go.
Will use MS ( much as I like firefox, schools on line attendance/achievement thing doesn't either)

KatyMac · 29/01/2012 10:43

I opened it in IE

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KatyMac · 29/01/2012 21:44

Managed to get it to work

Managed a design I like

Now I want opinions but I can't show it to anyone on here

Damn

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fossil97 · 29/01/2012 22:06

Can you just take a screenshot and load it as a photo on your profile? I've done this before. There may be some help on Ikeafans.

KatyMac · 29/01/2012 22:10

Actually I think I managed it....photos on profile to follow

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KatyMac · 29/01/2012 22:15

Yipee

I made it work

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icapturethecastle · 29/01/2012 22:21

Hi just a couple of ideas - could you not have the sink against the wall and lose a base cabinet for the dishwasher. I just think it might be more streamlined. I am not sure how the sink will look on the other side. Also if you are going to have the dishwasher out I would continue the benchtop over it and put a side panel down. If you are after the breakfast bar look I think the sink would be better against the wall with the dishwasher and have cabinets under the breakfast bar.

KatyMac · 29/01/2012 22:24

I know it would be much better

But DH would like to watch telly as he washes the dishes, so if I put the telly above the table I never need wash up again

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KatyMac · 29/01/2012 22:25

Yep I couldn't persuade the computer to put work surface over the dishwasher

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icapturethecastle · 29/01/2012 22:29

You could always get a wall mounted TV that pulls out (cantilevered bracket) and then goes flat against the wall (or are you anti wall mounted TV's I think they are a mumsnet no! Smile)

I think there is a section in the planner where you can cut the work top down but quite a to do.

My only concern would be the sink might not look right from the other side but not sure (although do like that sink).

Anyway good luck!!

KatyMac · 29/01/2012 22:31

I just assumed I'd put an end bit on the back so it just looks blank

What a little individual one for him? Maybe?

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icapturethecastle · 29/01/2012 22:33

sorry see from your pictures that it wouldn't work unless you swapped oven to the other side and put sink where oven is.

Sure once completed will look good.

icapturethecastle · 29/01/2012 22:35

Yes a little TV on the bench top possibly.

KatyMac · 29/01/2012 22:39

The things that have to stay

Water on that side
Cooker on the other

DH watching telly while washing up

Everything else is negotiable Wink

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Pannacotta · 29/01/2012 22:46

Think the sink jotting out looks really odd, I would put it against the wall in the run of units, surely you dont have that much washing up if you have a dishwasher...

KatyMac · 29/01/2012 22:49

You wouldn't believe the amount we have Wink

I'd rather it was that way but DH ?

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fossil97 · 29/01/2012 23:56

I have seen something a bit similar. Friends have a sink on the "peninsula" but it has about an 8 inch upstand behind it and then a wide shelf on the upstand that you can put things on/pass things over/sit behind on stools. It faces into the dining end of the room and the garden doors so it's really sociable.

I would rehash it a bit so the "working" end of the kitchen is well zoned off from the dining end. For instance, from the left of the middle picture:

Fridge, worktop with dishwasher under, turn corner to sink roughly where you have it and small cabinet on end. The corner could be a cabinet accessed from the other side.

(To get worktop over dishwasher, make dishwasher smaller and then use "extra worktop" or use one of the integrated ones).

On the right, cooker with good bit of worktop each side for prep & serve space, far end rounded/narrowed so there is room to walk past the sink. Beyond the sink on LHS, tall shallow floor-to ceiling cupboards for storage/larder/display etc.

You can wall mount a small flat screen TV on a discreet bracket that can either be flat against the wall or swing out, DH fits these all the time.

KatyMac · 30/01/2012 07:53

Oh, so move the fridge across

OK I'll play with that for a bit

We'd thought to stack dishes on the top of the dishwasher to either put in it or wash with the cutlery draw under the 'draining board' & the china on the other side to make putting away easy

I have the floor to ceiling wall units in my current kitchen & love them so that might work too

But I can make your version & look at it (thanks for the tip about the worksurface)

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KatyMac · 31/01/2012 16:16

I moved the fridge freezer on the top 2 photos

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icapturethecastle · 31/01/2012 20:02

I think it works better like that.

fossil97 · 31/01/2012 21:20

Shame you can't have some sort of sink which is usable from all sides (rather than a silly round one) how about a square or 1.5 bowl set sideways with the tap in the middle of the worktop? like this

KatyMac · 31/01/2012 22:59

Or 2 separate bowls with a tap set in the worksurface in the middle between the 2 - no that wouldn't work because you couldn't pass the dishes from one sink to the other to rinse without knocking the tap

That needs more thought

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KatyMac · 01/02/2012 09:27

New version on-line

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