Anyone want to critique my IKEA Kitchen

[TreeBird16]

Hoping the plan attaches. I was appreciate any feed back on my plan. First house, first kitchen of my own.

Colour is slightly off. Door is this one: www.ikea.com/ie/en/products/kitchen-products/cabinet-doors-fronts-panels/bodbyn-door-grey-art-30221043/

We have the grey bodbyn. One thing that looks great is the glass fronted doors. We sort of made a dresser using them. But I wish I had used some glass fronted doors on the few wall cupboards we have. We went for white quartz worktop and slightly off white rustic edged brick tiles to diffuse the urban-ness of the grey. The biggest regret was the pull out bin system. It's so heavy and awkward to pull out an 80cm wide drawer of bins just to pop something in the bin. we changed the drawer for 2 cupboards and fitted our own pull out bin on one side. Definitely get the under cupboard lights (pretty cheap in Ikea) and the in cupboard lights if you can put in some glass front doors.

Thanks everyone.

So points to note:

More huge drawers.

glass fronted doors. Do they not irritate a bit though if everything is a bit mismatched in the cupboard?

Lights under presses.

I am kinda stuck on the range but i don't know if thats sensible or not! I keep going back and forth. If i'm being really honest I think it represents something permanent and homely to me and thats most if the appeal. We've had quite the journey to get this house - nothing has come easy with it. This house is the nest i've craved since my first child was born and i'm loving doing it up

I have a range cooker that came with our house. I also only use one oven and have never used both in the three years we have been here. It is useful for storing baking trays though
Mine has a glass pull down top that you can use as a surface to put stuff on though.

Yes I agree with louise but on the reverse - so glad I pulled out tatty old radiator and replaced with vertical one - created space to have a sort of bodbyn 'dresser' and efficiency of new radiator showed me how crap old one was.

Yes we went for just one lot of glass fronted cabinets - where the radiator was we have dresser unit with I think three solid doors at bottom (shallower than kitchen unit but holds food processor, iron, boring crap really well. We don't have enough nice stuff to have all glass! But on top of those are two huge glass cupboards. They have lights and glass shelves etc so def a bit posher than normal cupboards - we are still working on arranging everything like glasses etc to look naice. Other option which I did with another glass fronted cupboard (more from safety view with toddlers) was cover them with custom cut panels of frosted film with little stars cut in. Looks surprisingly good, hides everything inside while still giving glass effect, and in fact went on to use the film to cover clear bathroom window (MUCH cheaper than replacing with frosted window) and window over front door. It does also come off but only when you want it to!

Re: glass doors

I had glass fronted doors on my old Ikea kitchen and TBH we chose not to have them again because of the faff of replacing blown lights and the pressure to only house attractive things behind those doors

I have an Ikea kitchen and all the advice to get drawers where possible was correct. I didn't really get it until the kitchen was in use, everything in the drawers is accessible and they are huge. Love them.

The wall cupboards hold so much more than my old ones too and it really matters in my smallish awkward kitchen.

I had an Ikea Faktum kitchen fitted 2 years ago, we have the dark grey Ringhult teamed with white gloss.

We had no issues fitting a Beko integrated dishwasher into our kitchen. We chose Ikea extractor because it fitted into the cabinet above and our own Whirlpool appliances, American fridge freezer, sort of combi microwave and oven. We just checked the dimensions of the Ikea ones and compared them to the ones we wanted.

Our base cupboards are all pull out larder things, so drawer top, then a cupboard door that is attached at the bottom to a drawer base I think it is the same as this with a hidden drawer inside the cupboard at the top.

I managed to fit in an extra shallow drawer in 2 of them so I have 3 drawers inside behind the door front.

It is fantastic to be able to pull out the drawer and get exactly what you want instead of reaching into the back of a cupboard, or worse, having to remove the items at the front to get to the ones at the back. I love my kitchen.

We have a 40cm deep breakfast bar under some horizontal wall cupboards. We use it every single breakfast time and use the dining room at all other times. It doubles up as extra worktop space should the need arise.

It’s probably a bit late for that now as she posted more than five years ago.