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I'm redoing my 1950's kitchen with Ikea cabinets. Care to comment / critique?
A few items I'm concerned with:
- I feel that my range is too close to the door on the right side of the kitchen. That door goes to my driveway, and is the one I typically enter the house from.
The sink used to be on a diagonal, and now that I put it under the window, it shifted everything to the right, including the range. Your thoughts?
- Also, I'd like to put coverpanels on the fridge (and also a deeper cabinet above the fridge), but the Ikea planner wasn't being very cooperative..
Welcome Warren-- I'd be happy to look at it and let you know what I come up with.Questions:
Do you have your kitchen table in this room?
Must plumbing, elec. gas, etc. stay where they are?
The "door" in this, is it an actual door, or just an opening?
Is this a "closed-in" kitchen with no open walls into other rooms?
Are you going with the Adel Birch like in the planner? The boxes come in birch so you wouldn't have to have cover panels if you don't want to (Except around the frig. of course).
Based on what you have and the limited space constraints, it looks pretty good. But, I'll see if there is any other alternatives.
- I will have a kitchen table in here, though I haven't picked it out yet.
- Plumbing, electric, and gas can be moved. The kitchen is entirely gutted now, so its a blank slate. The walls as shown, however, are fixed.
- The door shown near the range is an actual 32" door. There is an opening directly across from the sink (near the refrigerator) into a family room. This isn't shown on the plan.
- I am planning to go with Adel Birch, its good to hear I don't need the cover panels!
I think your kitchen is just crying out for an island! You've got plenty of room there, and it would make your space much more functional. You could even incorporate seating at it if you wanted to. I'd like to see the main sink in the island and the prep sink under the window to give you more space around the range.
I don't think that corner wall cabinet is going to work well for you. I'd recommend a straight wall cabinet instead.
I did a couple of plans, one called ISLAND and one called ISLAND ON ANGLE just so you can see a few different ideas. Let me know what you think!
Hi Warren. I agree with Eva about the island. Here's a couple more variations on a similar plan. I think the sink in the island is a good idea. It would be nice to have a separate breakfast room, but you could make the island function as your table. You could even put lower counters and seating around it if you didn't want counter or bar height. Remember that the 30" wall cabinets backing to the island would give you additional storage; they would be elevated with legs, of course, to your counter height. I'd definitely think about adding one 15" pullout pantry unit if possible. Keeping all your food in the cabinets is just going to eat-up your storage space.
Also think about just using a small trash can pullout under your sink instead of a 15" pullout cabinet. Although you'd be emptying all the time. Perhaps you could do something similar under the sink like this:
Oh, also in one of the plans I utilized a 36" door base unit pulled away from the wall so that you can use it as a blind corner cab., modifying it with a 15" door and a pullout unit that you would have used in the 49" blind corner cab. It will give you 6" more inches to work with as opposed to using the 49".
I love the idea of moving the refrigerator in from the end of the wall by one cabinet. With the refrigerator at the end (where it was in the old kitchen), it was awkward to walk around it into the hallway. It breaks up the countertop, but I think that 18" on the end can be used for keys, mail, etc.
I wanted an island, but was vetoed by other family members saying it would cramp the kitchen. But, after seeing these plans, I definately think one should go in. The jury is still out on moving the sink (due to moving the plumbing), but I'd say the island is a 'go'.
Here's a question, if a deep 24" cabinet is placed above the refrigerator, how do you keep the normal 12" deep cabinets flanking the fridge from banging into the cover panels? (I'm assuming there would be 24" deep cover panels around the fridge for a built in look). When opening the flanking cabinets, wouldn't they bang into those cover panels?
lockburn, you'll be able to open the doors up to 90 degrees, but no more. I say "up to" because whatever knob/pull you choose will impact how far you can open the door. I haven't looked at the plan, if it's a single doored cabinet in question, you can just hinge it the other way.
Oh, and if I haven't said so already, welcome to the forums!
Susan
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Keep in mind that you'll need as much counterspace as possible on your "L" since you're not really going to have alot on the island/sink side if you go that route. Good luck Warren as you proceed with your plans and keep us updated on the progress!
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