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Firstly, hello and thank you all for the amazing resourse this website is becoming. The archives have been invaluable in planning an IKEA revamp of a very small 50s kitchen (about 7 x 14 feet).
Am still figuring out how to post jpgs of my plans (I am a Mac user and can only use the planning software when I visit the store, grrrr - luckily we live 5 mins drive from an Ikea) so will have to describe this verbally. Hope it translates!
I'm planning to put the stove on the shortest wall of the kitchen, and this will be the short arm of an "L" shape. The wall in question is 78" wide, and will have the corner cabinet at the right end, 36 3/4", with a 30" stove next to it. I'd hope to squeeze a 12" cabinet in on the left of the stove, next to the wall, but it's not going to work, is it?
So what to do with that space? Functionally, it will be the place for stove-related utensils, which I had envisioned living in a drawer but could easily hang from a wall-mounted strip or sit in a handy jug. I can also see using the space to store baking trays etc vertically. And I'd planned a matching upper cabinet for oils, spices, etc. Perhaps a shelf mounted on the left hand wall could do this job.
What sort of cabinet/unit/thingy could I slot into the gap? Is it possible to jigger something together from a 12" cabinet or should I start from scratch? Is there something max 10" wide (8 or 9 would also be OK) in the Ikea cornucopia?
The 9" Perfekt cabinet will fit your space, but only you can decide if it will fit your needs. It only comes in 4 finishes, though, so that might be limiting...
Comes in 30" (for base or wall cabinet installation) or 39" (for wall cabinet installation this one comes with 8 cubbies) and in beech, birch, white or oak. Or at least, it did in the 2006 catalog year. There may be more (or less) in the coming 2007 catalog year -- new catalogs will be out in the next month or 3.
If that doesn't work for you functionally, you can cut down a 12" cabinet, but you do have to take care with reconstruction and then there's the issue of a door or front for it, unless you choose to leave it open. What's your chosen doorstyle?
If you're using Abstrakt white, it cuts down really easily. I didn't even paint the cut edges because they're all against walls in my kitchen (or at the bottom of drawers). Couldn't be easier.
Thank you for the quick replies! The PERFEKT might just be perfect, thank you GoD!! I'll have to measure that space in the middle and see if it would hold a cookie sheet. Looks to be about 10" high, so maybe not. Could I leave out one of the drawers, I wonder. Alsomaybe I could flip it upside down and have the winebottle spaces at the top, for implements, and the pull-out drawers at the bottom so that if they fell out when pulled, they wouldn't fall that far.
Failing that, it looks like we'll be cutting down a 12". The door style is ADEL white, so I don't know how the drawer front and door would look after being shaved on both sides... (I'd probably leave the door off the bottom, but wouldn't want to rule it out). Anyone done this and lived to tell the tale?
Maybe I'll just wind up leaving it open, which would mean only cutting the top, bottom, and back pieces, right? Stay tuned!
Yes, you can flip it upside down, but I'm not sure if you can leave out one of the drawers. The assembly of this thing was one of the most complicated I've done and I think all of it is needed for stability, but I could be wrong. I'll go measure the "bookshelf" area...back in a flash!
11 1/4". Anyway, it's only about 12" deep as opposed to the standard 24" of a base cabinet, so cookie sheets (except for toaster oven types) probably wouldn't fit anyway.
The deep drawer fronts come in a 11 1/4" flavor...perhaps you could use an Adel drawer front turned on end. What did you say your gap was again?
Wow, speedy reply! The gap is max 11" . Total available wall space is 78", and there will be the corner cabinet at 36 3/4" and the stove is 30", which makes more or less 67", leaving 11" in theory, but in practice probably less. Esp if we leave a little space either side of the stove.Â*
Complicating matters slightly is that there's a door on the left-hand wall, so there'd need to be an inch or so of filler at the wall side to ensure that any drawer might bump into the door framing.Â* I'm thinking it might be too much of a kerfuffle to try and get a drawer or door in anyway, but cutting down the 12" to fit or cobbling something together might be the way to go.
Unless there is some other brilliant option that I'm just not seeing... Would love to get rid of the current stove, which is a bugger to keep clean, but it's fairly new and we're on a budget, alas.
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