We spoke with IKEA Direct today and have come to the conclusion that an IKEA kitchen is not in our future. It amazes me that neither the store or Direct has the infrastructure to handle backorders, especially with 'new' and 'popular' styles (as our IKEAn, Rachel, put it) like the Nexus Yellow-Brown...
Well, we made the 5 hour trek to IKEA Seattle this weekend only to find out that, unbelievably, they have no backorder capabilities for the items (16 of them in total) that they did not have in stock. Plus, we would have to pull all 120 other items (handles, hinges, legs, some cabinets, etc) from the...
Well, after much discussion and research, we have decided that we are going to challenge the normal school of thought when it comes to kitchen remodels. Conventional wisdom dictates that it is pretty much impossible to remodel a kitchen for less than $10,000 (minimum). We are going to blow that out...