Designing your IKEA kitchen
We are out the other end of our IKEA kitchen design & install and hindsight, as you know, is a wonderful thing. Our family joke is now we are ready to tackle an IKEA kitchen. This is the first of a series of posts around the design and installation of our new kitchen. Design is key Without good design any reno is throwing good money after bad. If you haven't really thought out how you want to work in your kitchen, and how you want it to look overall, no matter how well you install it, you won't be happy . I hope some of my musings, and what I learned as I worked through the design process, will be helpful to you if you are planning an IKEA kitchen as a renovation project. Get what you want by designing well Know what's hidden Know the bones of your kitchen so there'll be no surprises. We wanted 90 inch pantry units and had a bulkhead with pot lights in it. I kept nagging my husband to have a look, and I was so glad because to our surprise we found vent wor