IKEA Kitchen Organization Tips from IKD Pros

Think about how you employ your IKEA kitchen when making a useful design

At Impressed Kitchen Design, we assist guarantee our shoppers don’t bounce into an IKEA kitchen renovation unprepared. The one factor worse than redesigning a kitchen on a whim is designing one which doesn’t give you the results you want.

This occurs extra typically than you would possibly assume. Now we have clients who see a kitchen on HGTV, Pinterest, or in a showroom, and so they fall in love. They don’t at all times cease to contemplate whether or not this “excellent kitchen” is ideal for them.

Because of this, IKD at all times asks kitchen design clients to contemplate three important questions:

How do you employ your kitchen?
Who makes use of your kitchen?
What do you retailer in your kitchen?

We then construct a kitchen design round your wants to make sure you don’t simply take pleasure in the way in which the kitchen seems but additionally the way in which it features. Our design crew emphasizes inside cupboard group and intelligent methods to maximise area – all in a mode you’ll love.

4 IKEA Kitchen Design Suggestions from IKD Execs

Kitchens aren’t all about meals. Take into consideration how you employ the area

“Most householders dream of getting more room, a room for every particular person exercise. However that’s simply not actuality. You most likely don’t need the youngsters to have a paint evening at your kitchen desk, nevertheless it’s going to occur. Kitchens do double obligation. I at all times encourage my shoppers to embrace it. Make area for it.” – Frank, IKD designer

That is the place fascinated by how you employ the area is available in. When you take pleasure in studying whereas ready for a pot to boil, IKD can design a customized IKEA storage bench seat as a window seat. This in style however beautiful hack entails taking a SEKTION cupboard with MAXIMERA drawers and topping it with an IKEA countertop (typically one which matches the remainder of your kitchen workspace). Our kitchen design packages at all times embrace detailed hack drawings to make sure that is finished in a approach that’s structurally sound.

Rev-A-Shelf supplies a few of our favourite inner organizers for kitchens with different makes use of. The Rev-A-Shelf charging drawer (4WCDB-18HFLSC-1) will be helpful if tech typically finds its approach into your kitchen. RAS’s enormous collection of waste container methods (4WCOX-24DMSC-1) typically doubles as pet meals storage.

It’s okay should you hate to cook dinner. Simply be prepared to confess it

“When you hate cooking, constructing a Martha Stewart-worthy kitchen isn’t going to offer you that keenness. As a substitute, I at all times advocate constructing the kitchen in a approach that may make meals prep really feel extra manageable. Inventory the freezer stuffed with microwaveable meals and spend money on an air fryer. I give attention to workflow in all of my kitchen designs to make life just a little simpler on nights whenever you simply can’t get out of chopping greens and utilizing the oven. Good group could make the worst duties really feel extra manageable.” – Merari, IKD designer

The kitchen workflow seems completely different for everybody. Some desire the age-old work triangle, which permits householders to maneuver freely from fridge to range to sink unobstructed. Nonetheless, work zones have gotten a extra fashionable approach to set up kitchens. They take customization to a different stage, letting you create a zone for no matter you need, like baking, dishwashing, cooking, and, sure, even microwaving.

Work zones are extremely handy for households who take pleasure in cooking collectively, as everybody can work comfortably in separate zones.

Remember to ask your designer about inner organizers that may simplify your cooking expertise, just like the Rev-A-Shelf utensil pullout (449UT-BCSC-5C) and door mount spice rack (4SR-15).

When you’re extra of an air fryer/crockpot/microwave cook dinner, our designers have a trick up their sleeves for conserving the counter tops trying clear and uncluttered: equipment garages. These hacked cupboards make it straightforward to entry incessantly used countertop home equipment after which cover them away once more.

Islands are a lady’s (or man’s) greatest pal

“I discover that islands are sometimes an afterthought for my design clients, particularly those that are renovating kitchens that don’t have one already. Typically, there’s a characteristic they’d like to incorporate within the redesign, however they’ll’t discover a approach to match it, like further seating or an additional equipment. Even a small island will be lifechanging in a kitchen, and my design clients are at all times impressed by simply how versatile a kitchen island will be.” – Florence, IKD designer

A few of our favourite designs contain IKEA kitchen island hacks, the place we incorporate distinctive parts, like a charging cupboard for gadgets or a pet feeding station. It’s particularly rewarding to design an island that brings households nearer collectively. For instance, we’ve designed just a few baking stations, and clients typically ask us to incorporate seating so youngsters can assist or mates can go to (and check style!).

These stations typically require some ingenuity, as rolling and kneading are simpler on a shorter floor. Hacking IKEA cupboards to make sure the countertop is at an acceptable peak is a standard request. Prospects typically incorporate the Rev-A-Shelf heavy-duty mixer carry (ML-MPHDSCCR-18) for simple storage and additional work floor.

Measurement issues

“It’s exhausting explaining to a buyer that we will’t match an island in a galley kitchen or that an equipment received’t match if additionally they need a sure measurement cupboard. I can’t do magic. However I can take advantage of small areas and present clients with massive kitchens infinite potentialities.” – Daniel, IKD designer

Small kitchens are the place IKD designers shine. Utilizing IKEA cupboard hacks and Rev-A-Shelf organizers, we maximize each sq. inch of area. Rev-A-Shelf has an expansive line of cupboard filler pullouts. The pantry pullout (432-TF39-6C) can remodel a 6” huge hole, like one which may be discovered between a fridge and a cupboard, into priceless storage actual property. There are even pullout spice racks (432-BF-3C) meant for areas which might be simply 3” huge. Our designers can match the RAS equipment with the drawer and door fronts used within the IKEA kitchen design, whether or not they’re an IKEA model or a customized possibility.

The RAS blind cupboard optimizers (5PSP-15-CR) are helpful in kitchens of any measurement, making provides simply accessible whereas additionally making certain no area is wasted.

A well-organized IKEA kitchen makes clients pleased

We wish you to take pleasure in stepping foot in your new IKEA kitchen, however we additionally need you to take pleasure in utilizing your new IKEA kitchen. We earn repeat clients by creating considerate, customized kitchen designs that embrace the inside of cupboards in addition to the outside.