They have a separate catalog for Kitchen now. I may have it at home - please email me your name and address and I will let you know - if I have it I'll send it to you.

The word I got on IKEAFans is that the kitchen catalog usually runs about a month behind the full catalog. So maybe we will see it by the end of August of the first of September??? I am dying to see it myself. The only really new thing I have seen on IKEAFans is the Applad gray.

Thanks for the info... guess I can wait until Sept for the kitchen specific one. I last used Ikea in 2004 and they used to at least publish the spec sheet in the general catalog. The Kitchen section seemed quite abbreviated to me.

>So maybe we will see it by the end of August of the first of September???

That would be nice, but I think last year it was more like mid-October by the time it was in all the stores.

Darn! I was really hoping for sooner rather than later. I am not really expecting anything super exciting but it is kind of fun to dream anyway.

I was just there this weekend and hoped to pick-up the new catalog, since mine hasn't arrived yet, and I am terribly impatient.

They didn't have any. *pout*

shelayne - how are your plans coming along? I am still trying to get started. I think I am using this kitchen catalog launch as a catalyst for my project (probably won't work but I wish it would).

Hi, odiegirl. We are maybe 3/4s of the way through. One major thing that is not done is the doors, and that is my fault. I haven't yet placed the order because I want to be absolutely certain we won't have to tweak anymore cabs which would throw off my door measurements.

The kitchen is up and running, though, and I am thrilled how much more functional it is--even though we still have a bit left to do. I will post pictures when all is said and done.

I know what you mean about getting started. Really, it took a while for us to get going--even after DH knocked the wall down between the kitchen and dining room. I kept going over my plan obsessively. (I wish I would've found this site and Ikeafans while I was designing our space!) I started buying things and storing them in our garage. I called it "gathering acorns". Finally last fall, my husband said, "Well, let's do this thing!", and we basically stripped the kitchen and started plodding away. Once those very first cabinets were hung, I was eager to really dig in. It really helped to see progress. Electrical work is very necessary (hubs is an electrician), but it isn't very visual, so it didn't seem as if we were getting anywhere. For quite awhile. It was a long winter. ;^)

Have you been playing around with the IKEA planner? That is what started the ball rolling at our house. Once we decided that we were going to do "something" to the kitchen (though the idea to do a complete remodel came later), the wall came down and there was no turning back.

I am very excited to finish this loooong project. :^) Are you looking at a complete remodel or just a "sprucing up"?

I am so glad you are making progress. I think you are doing the right thing with the doors because you don't really know you have made a mistake until you actually put the cabinet in. I will take any and all progress photos that you have time to post.

I am doing something similar - taking down a wall between the kitchen and family room. I am treating that as kind of a separate project. Hopefully we will make a decision on that and my goal is to get that part done before the end of the year.

I love your "gathering acorns". I play with my little spreadsheet obsessively moving money from one category to another. I am ripping out most of the cabinets (goodbye soffit!). My plan now is to do the range and sink walls with new cabinets, buy a standalone island and possibly leave the separate refrigerator alone until I am ready to buy a new refrigerator. (no money for that right now). I have to put in new flooring, range and sink.

I did get a quote from a custom guy but it is going to be double what I can do in IKEA. We are NOT DIY'ers so there is our dilemma. I really love IKEA though.

This is probably more info than you wanted. TKO!

Good luck and keep me posted.