IKEA kitchen design help
I have never done any remodeling so I am feeling very lost. I am planning on a kitchen renovation very soon. Some background information: I will probably be selling my house in a year or two. I am the only cook in the house. I have two kids 8 and 10 and then 3 adult children that come for dinner several times a week. My husband recently passed away so I have to make all of the decisions now and I'm overwhelmed.
I would appreciate any input on the design. The island will have an overhang for seats but it wouldn't let me do it in the planner. The area by the two doors is a breakfast area and we eat all of our meals there. The wall behind that area is really a staircase so the wall is only a partial wall.
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Help with Ikea Kitchen Design
Comments (22)Can't thank you guys enough for all your advice. This is awesome. Ok, a little bit about the house: it's a foreclosure. We are renovating it from top to bottom using a rehab loan, which means we really need to do as much as we can all at once. Funky, it is over a crawl space. I didn't realize it wasn't that costly to move electricity/plumbing. That's great to know! Would you guys have a better layout to suggest given that we can possibly move that all around? What annoys me too is that window, which is smack in the middle of where the old kitchen used to be, but which is obviously weirdly off to the right in the new layout. That's why we wanted to widen the window, but we also considered adding in another window on the other side (symmetrically). We sort of nixed that idea thinking it might be too costly, but maybe we'll re-visit? To answer your other question, yes, you can access the dining room both from that opening off of the kitchen but also from the family room via french doors. The bottom left corner: the kitchen is a rectangle with the bottom left 90 degree angle removed. So there's space there, but if we extended it more, it would feel like it was going into the family room. Just occurred to me that I should post some pictures of the space! They're not great, but i'm linking them. Maybe they will help make sense of the space. http://imgur.com/IZ3lkHI http://imgur.com/b6Lf6p7 http://imgur.com/r6vUf4V http://imgur.com/E3DQMNa Oh, also, we weren't envisioning using the island for seating - just extra prep/counter space and cabinets. Not sure if that matters...? Now I'm rethinking that, though. I didn't think we had enough room for seating....See MoreL shaped kitchen with island from Ikea - feedback on design
Comments (19)Dear Rosebloom2, Having not interviewed you I have no idea what you’re trying to accomplish. I have reviewed your kitchen design with this in mind. A kitchen’s purpose is to provide food and beverage service. If you design your kitchen well it should last 50 years and remain current and valuable regardless of changes in design trends. Being a simple machine with the only moving part being whoever is working in it. It should perform its purpose as efficiently as possible and look great while doing it forever (50 years). I believe you should buy your kitchen once, use it, enjoy it, and reap the benefits of owning a kitchen that doesn’t need to be replaced in 8 to 12 years when your appliances start to fail. If it’s designed to meet the latest trendy, new, and wow, and most are. The Impact You Expect your kitchen project to have could be extremely short lived. And you’ll quickly find you own a kitchen much like the one you so desperately wanted to replace. My Review: You have no pantry (could be a huge problem). Having all the mass (weight) of the refrigerator and broom closet on the one short wall makes your kitchen composition unbalanced (lopsided). Having the broom closet doors open to the left make the sides of those cabinets, in context, look out of place adjacent to your refrigerator enclosure. The inside corner wall cabinet is a waste (in my opinion). Sure you can fill it with lots of stuff but you can’t reach the back of that cabinet from the bottom shelf of it, and as you go higher it gets even less accessible. You could install a wall lazy susan but the results aren’t great because it leaves a lot of cabinet space unusable. What is in the front you see and what is behind that consider it lost because you’ll have to take everything in front out to get to it. continued.......See MoreIkea Kitchen Design Part 2
Comments (3)1st off this kitchen aesthetically looks much better than the last one you posted. Good job. My only suggestion on this plan is to remove the open shelves beside the hood fan and put a white upper cabinet on either side. I think that the open shelves on the end of the pantry look very nice but the ones by the stove look odd, especially with there not being any on the other side of the hood fan. If you really want the open shelves by the stove I would then put open shelves on both sides of the range to finish the end of the uppers where the lowers end. I actually think that the herringbone tile would look great. The rest of your kitchen does not have much for pattern or texture so the herringbone would great a nice feature....See MorePlease help with designing our galley kitchen!! Designers help!
Comments (15)If teal isn’t doing it for you that blue color is really pretty too and still would look gray with brass and the grey floor tile! I found a few good options on amazon for the hardware by searching brass square pulls and also these on way fair: https://www.wayfair.com/Hamilton-Bowes--Ventoux-5-Center-Bar-Pull-24128SB-24128SCOP-L1123-K~HMBW1035.html?refid=GX293766718941-HMBW1035_40348394&device=m&ptid=762818256643&network=g&targetid=pla-762818256643&channel=GooglePLA&ireid=83020192&fdid=1817&PiID[]=40348394&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsbjP3fmW5AIVgrfsCh1oWwbcEAQYDSABEgIS_PD_BwE Here is a link to a similar light fixture! https://www.bellacor.com/productdetail/elegant-lighting-ld6042br-eclipse-brass-and-frosted-white-12-inch-one-light-pendant-2116486.htm?partid=googlePLA-DataFeed-Pendants-2116486&kpid=2116486&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Shopping_-All_Products(NEW)&utm_term=&utm_content=multi-converters_(2-5)&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIv_64qPqW5AIVFKrsCh0HGQGgEAQYCCABEgJyK_D_BwE I think the subway tile will look classic and gives you more leeway to get a countertop that can be the star! If you picked the geometric backsplash I would say go for simple very toned down counters....See MoreTiffany Miller
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4 years agoHi, Tiffany
I understand you're not wanting to move things around, but I wanted I wanted to show you another option for your kitchen layout, anyway, to get you to think about what you really want to get out of the remodel. Remodeling is a huge disruption to your daily life, so you should make it count. :)
It looks like the dining room is beyond the arched opening? And you have your refrigerator pulled forward so you can open the right door fully? That's a common problem with refrigerators placed right up to a wall. So here's my idea:
If you moved the dining room opening you could have an L-shaped kitchen with an island. Moving refrigerator water lines and electrical are not very costly in the grand scheme of a remodel. However, once you start opening walls, hidden problems could emerge and then the costs could escalate. Anyway, this is just an idea. I agree with others who are advising against remodeling if you're selling in a year or two. Also, my condolences to you and your family.
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