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Back of peninsula ideas for IKEA Axstad blue and white kitchen, please

2 years ago

I'm doing an IKEA kitchen with Axstad blue lower cabinets and Axstad white upper cabinets. The peninsula will be about 116 inches. The non-kitchen side of the peninsula is the dining room, and due to very tight space constraints and a weird floor plan, I can't afford any counter overhang space to make an eat-in counter (bummer). So the back of the peninsula will be very prominent and visible in both dining room and living room. And will get indirect/far away southern light.

The cheapest thing to do is install matching IKEA cover panels - note that there'd have to be a seam. How durable are the cover panels? The cover panels in the kitchen department of the IKEA store are kinda beat up, but it's high traffic. How do these hold up in the home, over time. And a long wall of two cover panels sounds really boring. Any suggestions, using IKEA cover panels?

Alternatively, any suggestions for other ways to finish the peninsula wall? There will not be a pony wall behind the IKEA cabinets incidentally.

TIA!

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Patricia Colwell Consulting
2 years ago
Use the same doors as on the front or if that is mostly drawers then just do door fronts on the back side
mvcanada
2 years ago
Well, it is going to depend on the style of the rest of the house, particularly the dining area but there are so many options. Beadboard, tongue and groove horizontally, herringbone or chevron, shiplap, panelling to mimic wainscoting (you can do this easily with MDF trim), barnboard, tile in a pattern to match your backsplash choice or maybe a larger scale than the backsplash but the same style/design.

If you post pictures of your kitchen choices and the dining room, you'll likely get lots of suggestions.
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