[JABOW]

I've installed regular cabinets before. Filler strips go flush with the cabinet and the doors are a different level. Ikea is all doors so how do you make the filler strip flush with the door? Two strips? One on top of the other?

Thanks,

JABOW
1st. post.

[Chuck]

Welcome to waters, JABOW.

I always install filler strips flush with the cabinets, which gives you a bit of a recess between the door/drawer front and wall. Because the inside of IKEA's filler materials is not finished, they really can't be installed flush with the finished surfaces.

Unless, of course, you're lucky enough to have a gap that is the same size as a finished IKEA material - like the 1/2" cover panel or 3/4" deco strip, etc. - in that case, you can cut the piece long enough to tuck in behind the cabinet, leave enough of a reveal to come flush with the door/drawer, and then screw through the cabinet and into the filler.

[JABOW]

Thanks Chuck,

My gap is along the back wall of a U-shaped kitchen which has a corner cabinet at each end so I can not put a strip on the end and the corners need to be flush with the wall. It will have to go between two cabinets. If that makes sense. I purchased an extra side panel which should match and I can cut any width and attach from behind the regular filler and bring flush. Think it will work? I'll post a picture after I'm done.

[cz9h3d]

Hmmmm... this is a very good question! I'm going to need some filler strips too that are not just for the end of a cabinet run. I too have filler panels (Adel Birch) with the intention of using them as filler - better match than the toekick). I went through the galleries trying to find an example, but that's fruitless.

I need fillers for:
-wall cupboard next to a tall pantry - allow the door to open / handle clearance against the pantry
-Run of cabinets that fill a wall
-Run of cabinets around a dishwasher.

It does seem that it might appear odd if the filler isn't flush with the closed door...but maybe not. I'll have to go home and play around tonight and see, as I haven't cut the fillers, and can stiff fudge with the final cabinet placements.

[Chuck]

Whether my fillers go at the end of a run or in between cabinets, I usually put them flush with the cabinets, not the doors. Again, the issue is the unfinished core of the IKEA materials, so this needs to be "buried" somehow.

There have been a some - maybe one or two - situations where I have done a double thickness of filler. One goes flush with the cabinets, then a second layer flush with the door - but this has been in corner situations where the unfinished edge goes next to the hinged side of the corner cabinet, wall or base.

Keep in mind that with most door styles, the filler will NOT match the style of the door. Fillers tend to be square edged (unless your using doors or drawers as filler), while most doors have some sort of edge detail to them - i.e. Adel doors have the beveled edge, Nexus has the edge banding, etc. - so to me the stylistic difference almost dictates the flush install so as to not accentuate that difference even more.

[cz9h3d]

I'm doing Adel Birch with birch cabinets, so I have no matching issues. I have a 2" filler required along one wall run, and now I have to decide if I want it right next to the slide-in range or between a cabinet / corner. As the range has the same drawer cabinets on each side, it's not the obvious place for the filler if i want to keep it symmetrical.

I was also going to do a filler where an upper cabinet meets a panty, to provide clearance for the door handle which opens against the panty. Of course this also translates to the base cabinet requiring filler against the panty too!

Cabinets are not yet secured, so i have options. I'm planning on using an end panel as my filler. I'm already scheming that if I don't like it flush with the cabinets I'll buy a door and cut it up instead (and route the bevel on both side).

[Gloria]

I found some pictures of filler and thought it might help others to see a few pictures in one place of some different ways it can be done.

http://www.ikeafans.com/galleries/index.php?n=280


http://www.ikeafans.com/galleries/index.php?n=140


http://www.ikeafans.com/galleries/index.php?n=118


http://www.ikeafans.com/forums/photo...html#post53579

[cz9h3d]

Thanks....great pictures!