Help with kitchen layout
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Need help with Kitchen Layout & IKEA kitchen software?
Comments (7)Hi Katrina, To your first question regarding moving wall cabs up and down: Select the cabinet to be raised or lowered. Go into 3D view. Get a close up view of the cab. To the right (maybe sometimes to the left, I'm not quite sure) of the cab you'll see an up/down arrow. click up or down to move the cab until it's at the desired height. Planner tips: If your software is lagging, it helps to give it some time after every click before continuing. When you select a cab, wait before continuing until the cursor stops spinning. All that will prevent it from getting overwhelmed. Make sure that all extensions in your browser are disabled. That seems to help. Keep saving often. I mean it: really often. Ikea updated the software about 2 weeks ago. Since then the planner works much better on my Mac Ibook using Firefox. I haven't tried to run the planner with Chrome or Safari since the update. I'm sure some layout experts will eventually chime in with design help. Good luck!...See MoreHelp with Kitchen Layout- Small Original(?) Kitchen in 1930's Cottage
Comments (7)I like where you're going with this. A couple ideas: you will probably need to move the door anyway to fit the cabinets, fridge, etc. One benefit will be you can open the door on a right-hinged fridge into the doorway. Check out the Liebherr fridges. We have had three in different properties, including two 24-inch ones. Love them. Some people here are fixated on drawers, but they do waste a certain amount of space, particularly in a shallow cabinet. To me, a shallow cabinet, as you are proposing under the windows, works well with shelves, because there is not a lot of stuff behind other stuff. On the window wall, you might consider a wine rack, if you would use that: depth is perfect. On the other wall, I would go with one bank of wider drawers - they will hold more. I would do, from left, a 24" dishwasher, 30" single sink, drawers, 30" range, tray cabinet, 24" fridge. You can get by with a 30" hood. Above, a 24" cabinet, nothing above sink, upper cabinet, hood (with 3" gap on each side), maybe a narrow spice cabinet, then a 24" cabinet over the fridge. You can do a garbage pullout under the sink, or a tip out on the window walk....See MoreHelp for kitchen layout
Comments (64)What do you all think of this idea? I think you're stuck on your idea even if it's not the most efficient because you'll be crossing zones and also because you have too many narrow lower cabinets. What you have to decide is if you're a person who favors function over design or design over function. I personally would never pick design over function but that's me. I am not a fan of cooking (although I am a good cook because I like eating good food), so want the most efficient kitchen possible. YMMV. Will it look odd to have a relatively narrow oven stack sticking up all by itself? Yes and it will feel like an afterthought as well as blocking some of that light between kitchen and dining area. I notice in your latest versions you also give up seating at the island. Again if you both cook together, you want 48" from what sticks out the furthest to what sticks out the furthest. And here is another version, with the fridge between the dining room and kitchen. That is better since you now have the proper work flow and additionally now the fridge is closer to the dining room. However you still seem to be favoring narrower lower cabinets versus less cabinets but wider ones. Trust me you can get a lot more in a wider cabinet and very little in narrow ones. Also you have the dishwasher and trash on the wrong side of the sink. Dishwasher you want out of your prep zone which is BETWEEN sink and cooktop and trash bins in the prep zone. A super susan is basically useless. Better to widen the drawers on either side of the corner for better storage and make the corner a dead corner. The other issue I see in your last version is where do you store pots and pans? Ideally they should be stored on either side of your cooktop so you're not having to turn around or walk anywhere anytime you need a pot or pan. And why do you want an island that is so deep? Anyways, I meant too wide because a dish drawer may get too heavy when beyond a certain size. I am not sure. It won't. You can get heavy blum runners so it's not an issue. Do yourself a favor and with the last version you have, first figure out how all your dishes, pots, pans, etc will fit in those drawers. Use masking tape to tape out the different size drawers (on the floor) and then try stacking your actual stuff in them. Then in your mind walk yourself through all the baking and cooking you do both daily and for holidays and entertaining. How many steps back and forth carrying pots, pans, etc do you have to do with your layout?...See MoreHelp With Kitchen Layout Please!
Comments (22)@cpartist We are in the mountains of VA. The garage is going to be positioned closer to the house due to the issue you state. The house is located on three acres in the woods - surrounded by conservation land and unbuildable (due to grade) land so the plan is to disrupt as little of the forest as possible for the house -- i.e., lots of shade around the house, hence my husband's wish for lots of windows/light. Re: flow --- we will put a door from the mudroom into the bathroom (and moving washer/dryer to where closet is). Pantry is indeed a hike, but it didn't make sense to put it next to mudroom due to clerestory windows (that would be ideal). Keep the comments coming! Thank you so much....See MoreMamaham_NC_Zone7
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