Need a Second Look at Your IKEA Mudroom Design?

Having IKD overview your IKEA mudroom design can prevent time, cash, and Tylenol.

Creating a lovely, built-in mudroom could be a enjoyable (or not less than satisfying) weekend venture in case you have a straight ahead design and easy-to-follow directions. In any other case, it’s a headache. IKEA is a favourite retailer for DIYers since their merchandise are reasonably priced, high-quality, straightforward to assemble, and hackable.

Nonetheless, putting in a customized mudroom takes greater than an concept and dedication; it takes design data. We will take your imaginative and prescient and enable you get the look you need whereas making certain the brand new addition is structurally sound and optimized for storage.

Whether or not you don’t have anything greater than an concept and measurements, a pencil-drawn sketch on graph paper, or a design created with the IKEA cupboard planner, our skilled designers can provide you a useful, long-lasting IKEA mudroom.

Beneath are just some examples of the errors we’ve caught whereas reviewing DIY IKEA mudroom designs. We hope they enable you create a greater DIY mudroom design and show the worth of a re-examination by an IKD designer.

An IKEA storage bench seat ought to assist you.

What’s mistaken with this image? To an untrained eye, the reply could be nothing. That untrained eye would additionally find yourself with a sore backside when this bench seat inevitably collapses.

Making a bench seat utilizing SEKTION panels and IKEA counter tops is a well-known hack. Nonetheless, this widespread IKEA hack have to be executed in a means that’s constructed to final. A buyer introduced us this concept, and we have been in a position to catch the issue instantly and supply another resolution.

Having two helps as an alternative of 1 permits for even weight distribution, which makes the bench seating on this mudroom design sturdier and safer. Design guidelines state that not more than 30″ of area needs to be between every assist in a design like this.

Aesthetically, the one distinction is there are three shoe cubbies as an alternative of two. This home-owner additionally received the additional benefit of an entire IKEA mudroom package deal, which incorporates an IKEA buying record, venture plan, and easy-to-follow hack directions.

Extra storage compartments in an IKEA cupboard locker means extra versatile group.

There was nothing mistaken with the structural integrity of the next IKEA mudroom design. This home-owner got here up with an effective way to create an IKEA coat closet in a small area (64”W x 120”H). Nonetheless, we seen that the way in which this home-owner meant to divide storage may very well be improved upon to make it look extra inviting and optimize storage.

Because it stands within the authentic design, these SEKTION kitchen cupboards used as an IKEA cupboard locker look rather a lot like, nicely, kitchen cupboards. We wish it to look the way in which a mudroom ought to: heat and welcoming. The home-owner knew one thing was missing, and we added symmetry and extra useful storage within the mudroom redesign.

As a substitute of a squat 35”W space for hanging coats on one facet and three stacked 24”W x 30”H cupboards on the opposite, our designers devised a plan to make each side equal widths. We designed six smaller cupboards to the appropriate, creating two IKEA cupboard lockers as an alternative of only one. Smaller cupboards are simpler to maintain organized, as small objects like hats, gloves, scarves, and so on., are more difficult to retailer and entry in massive cupboards.

Our designers additionally modified the storage above and beneath the hanging part. Open storage above the hooks and a MAXIMERA drawer beneath the bench seat add visible curiosity whereas making sensible use of the area.

Thoughts the hole; fillers are sometimes obligatory in IKEA cupboard design.

This last mistake we caught was a complete lifesaver – or not less than a venture saver. It’s straightforward for everybody (even some IKEA in-store planners) to neglect about clearance points when designing IKEA cupboards. If in case you have a 30”W area, you’ll assume you may match a 30”W cupboard. Nonetheless, you often want to depart room for fillers.

On the floor, in response to this home-owner’s hand-drawn design, it appeared like this IKEA mudroom design would match. Nonetheless, as soon as we acquired all of the room’s measurements and created a diagram utilizing our skilled design software program, it turned obvious that one of many drawers could be unable to open.

Our resolution was to incorporate a 2”W filler piece between the wall and drawer. This allowed sufficient clearance between the construction and the present doorframe for the MAXIMERA drawer to open freely.

It’s a easy repair, however it’s one that somebody who hasn’t had coaching as a designer may miss. Might you think about spending hours purchasing for components, putting in this design, after which discovering it doesn’t perform?

IKD marries IKEA with customized residence design each day.

We wish customized design to be reasonably priced for the common home-owner, and that’s why we’ve labored laborious to turn out to be specialists in design and all issues IKEA. IKEA gives a plethora of alternative with regards to inside residence design, as you may see from this assortment of mudroom designs.

Nonetheless, there are design points which may journey up somebody who doesn’t do that every day. A lot of our prospects come to us “to get a second set of eyes on issues” (L. Devine, IKD buyer) and for “useful design suggestions” (E. Benoit, IKD buyer).

We will be your second set of eyes, too.