Ikea Kitchen: matching discontinued door and drawer fronts
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Comments (1)I saw the same thing in my store. Too bad, we're doing a kitchen in our 2nd home in Adel beech. I really like it....See Morecustomizing Ikea drawers and door fronts
Comments (11)Understand that if you only had Blum to look at, you would be farther ahead. Blum is the source of all things Ikea-ey in terms of Ikea's kitchen base cabinets, the Blum drawers that Ikea sells, and the drawer heights that ARE available to you when you merely install the raw un-doored drawer that you get when you buy an Ikea (Blum) drawer. Drawer fronts are a different animal. The 3 sizes of Ikea drawers are not Blum-determined, Blum-decided, Blum-dictated. They are not Blum-ey. They are an ikea internal marketing committee decision. They are a bad choice for YOU but they are a good choice for the ikea marketing person who has to justify to the rest of ikea what to manufacture ship stock track and promote. If you were "ikea" you would sell a reduced set like this too. Do not buy these sizes. Unless they suit you. Looking in Blum brochures and catalogs you may begin to see images of these OTHER size options you have. Call Blum. See Blum web site. Act as if Blum were the only source. Then, use Ikea as a dumb hardware store that gives dumb advice but has the item you'll buy. In an ikea store, look underneath to see the overhang created when the three ikea standard size drawer fronts get clipped onto the Blum drawer. Then, look at the exact opposite: the aluminum internal drawer front (another ikea option). unixisgoodforyou, it's fine to limit yourself to the 32mm spacing of the predrilled holes on thecabinet side. This spacing corresponds to the spacing that Blum drawers use. ((Again, consult Blum not ikea)). If you wanted to put a batch of the shallowest-possible drawers inside one cabinet, the middle ones would be about 3.5" in height. Call Blum and ask about this; it's not an Ikea question. Whether or not this will mean that your highest one will be 3.5"h or 3.75" or whatever will depend on details that you will see when you purchase a single "rraw" drawer and play with it. Also, it might depend on your countertop, or on the wood bracing inside the cabinet (which I removed, in my case, because the flat steel countertop frame is my cross-bracing). Only Blum is Blum. No ikea employee is ever going to know as much as a Blum employee. Do not think about Ikea. Pretend Ikea does not exist; plan everything as though Blum were the only thing. At the last minute go buy the drawers at Ikea. End of story. Here is an example of an ikea hardware search: rationell+deep = Blum drawers and ikea drawer front (if you want a "front" of that height. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/search/?query=rationell%2Bdeep In the ikea search engine, i used keywords : rationell+deep Here is the SHALLOW internal drawer front. It goes onto any M height Blum drawer (of the Tandembox type) which you might purchase from any other source of M height Tandembox by Blum. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40132391 Tandembox is roughly from pages 200 to 350 of the Blum bible. Tandembox drawers come in heights N, M, B, K, etc. It is more efficient to buy one Ikea drawer instead of reading catalogs. There do exist some differences between some of the Blum Tandembox products and the Ikea version of Blum Tandembox. It might be good to know these differences. But it is not important yet. Now you are at the stage where you are planning height(s). There are no differences in terms of drawer heights or slider mechanisms. In the unadorned "raw" drawer. A "raw" drawer purchased at Ikea is a kit containing many Blum parts and no other parts from any other company. Onto a drawer you can attach ANY size drawer front, made by anyone.It could overhang or it could be sized "just right". When you buy the drawer at Ikea, it comes with the attaching clips that will hold a drawer front onto it. It's a kit. When you order Blum parts from any supplier of Blum parts, you can order these clips separately. There are millions of these clips available for free in the "As-Is" section of Ikea because the clips are unnecessary when you attach the internal drawer front. Here is a link that might be useful: SHALLOW internal drawer front that goes onto a Blum M...See MoreHELP! Looking to buy...discontinued Ikea, Akurum,Lidingo drawer fronts
Comments (10)It's only in store pickup. IKEA does not allow you to talk to the stores directly. Covina had some doors still. Some at full price, some on discount. All their Akurum stock was full price. They are still showing on inventory. Carson had some doors showing in inventory. The rest is in as is and put out each day. I bought the Ramsjo door and cover panel from inventory and the toe kick from as is. Last Friday Carson had all the Akurum in every size stacked to the ceiling in as is and in inventory at 70% off but they were all gone the next day. I came back because I bought the wrong size on 2 boxes. One man ripped a door from my hand in the as is section and dared me to do anything about it. Most of the as is stock at Carson gets bought by Mexican resellers so unless you're right there at the exact time, don't bother. I had to wrestle people just to get 4 shelves cause it was like locusts descending on a field of grain. All you saw was heaving bodies. Both Costa Mesa and Carson have women and children sitting there the entire day to grab stuff that comes out to the as is section. As of Sunday, Costa Mesa only had cabs and drawers in as is. They can't tell about the doors because all their inventory was taken off line and they pull down from the rack each day to refill their as is section. You can call IKEA and make them check stock for Covina. They don't like to do it but switch person or go up the chain til they do. Covina is probably your best bet as it is huge and at full price. San Diego and Burbank also has inventory at full price. Once a store shows the inventory you need, make IKEA call the store directly for a warehouse stock check to verify. These stores are all in So Cal....See MoreHELP! Looking to buy...discontinued Ikea, Akurum,Lidingo drawer fronts
Comments (4)If you don't have any luck with leads, there are specialty companies that manufacture drawer fronts specifically for Ikea cabinets, and they may be able to replicate what you need....See MoreHU-461692827
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