[pjungwirth]

Hey all - I searched and couldn't find anything on this. We are (hopefully) purchasing our kitchen in the next month or two. The order will have 11 cabinets, a sink and possible a dishwasher and/or a microhood.

We live about 5 miles from our Ikea and I have a trusty subaru station wagon that fits a lot of ikea in it, but I'm not sure if it will fit everything. Has anyone gone to the store, paid for their order and had it pulled, and then only loaded half, went home unloaded and went back for the second half? Not sure if this is store-specific, for what it's worth, the Minneapolis Ikea is where we shop.

Alternately/also - any experience in how, um, large an 11 cabinet order would be with the sink (the domsjo 24 inch/single basin) would be? A vanful? A 15 foot truck full? Possibly a subaru station wagon + one chrysler 4 door full ?

Thanks!

[PoorOwner]

Just 5 miles? You are supposed to pick up everything at once but maybe a partner can stay behind while you take multiple trips. I don't think it's going to fit all the items you listed, mostly the dish washer.

If that was my situation, I would buy a piece of big lumber from home center and rent their truck for $20 an hour, and <cough> stop by <cough> Ikea for an ice-cream

[PoorOwner]

BTW , here is almost a van full for a 10x10 kitchen and a few extra cabinets, no appliances.. about 1700 lbs and getting closer to the weight payload of chevy cargo van. I believe we unloaded some big panels already in this picture.

	BTW definintion BTW means By The Way

[pjungwirth]

Yeah... just five miles. We're very lucky - when i read all these nightmare posts where folks are missing one item and the Ikea is 5 HOURS away I think about how lucky we are!

I think if we end up getting appliances at the Ikea we might have to get a truck anyway - or a friend with an SUV. Our Ikea has Budget rental trucks at the store, but I guess I'm super stingy!

That's an idea to rope a friend into coming with us to either babysit our stuff while we drop off a load at home, but I'm still curious as to how much ROOM an order around my size would take up. I have no concept about how much stuff we'll actually be purchasing with 11 cabs!

[pjungwirth]

Oh! you posted the pic while I was typing! That's helpful - do you remember at all how many cabinets there were in that order? I have a hard time doing the 10x10 comparison.... our kitchen is, like, 4 feet wide and 20 feet long, but there's a table, and three doors... and you get the picture. Very helpful though!

	PIC PIC = Partner In Crime

[PoorOwner]

I have 19 cabinets but that's not an accurate measurement, some are 12" or 15" and they are small..

You should be able to get the stuff home in multiple trips, unless you have a 3'x8' panel which won't fit inside the wagon. I am unsure about the DW as it is 3' tall x2'x2' and I wouldn't think you want to put it sideways.

	DW definitions DW can mean Dear or Darling Wife (or substitute your expletive), or alternatively DishWasher. Take your clues from the context.

[gleamingeye]

Our kitchen was about the same as yours and we used a big, full-size truck and it was fully loaded. No dishwasher though. Actually, we also had my accord, and the trunk was about half- full, mostly with the hinges and smaller parts and some drawers.

But, I'll add that for us on the day we went to order our kitchen (which was supposed to be all in stock) it wasn't in stock, and enough of it had to come from the distribution center that they had it all come from there in a big, plastic-wrapped pallet. It was about 3 more weeks until it arrived.

If we'd asked, they would have allowed us to keep part of it there and made 2 trips.

[bermuda]

Okay so small wagon several trips 4 to 5 hours three people, the way I figure it is my time is worth at min 20/hr. So 3x4x20= $240

Verses one 10' U-haul @ 20/day 1.00 / mile at 20 miles= 40.00

As a friend I would expect 20.00 per hour to watch the stuff, as a good friend take me out to a nice dinner at least 30.

Rent a truck will take 2 hours to get your order pulled so don't rent by the hour, something may take longer Maybe a neighbor needs a couch moved you can split the cost with

One 8' pickup with cap 460 miles up the Columbian Gorge over the Blues.
11 cabinets,1 pantry, various other items, we had the pickup you know, No sales tax in OR, a stop at Traders Joes, $100 in wine, no sales tax remember we were in OR. There was very little room to spare pick up was filled to above bed walls.

Would not of been able to get the dishwasher and hood. Just a tip unless there is a sale on those items make a second trip to get them when you are ready for them. You are only 5 miles away. You are going to have more boxes then a kid at christmas to open and keep track of. You will be tripping over them and cursing them, more likely to damage one, plus warranty starts on purchase date not when they are installed. Both items are light, dishwashers weigh nothing now. Pick them up later with the Subaru. If I lived that close and the price did not change, I would pay for the boxes, hanging track and legs bring home install then go back and get doors and hardware when ready.

[Artsy]

I have an 8' galley kitchen with 11 cabinets (one of them the 36" base cabinet with the deep drawers) and got everything into my Cavalier - not all of the cabinets were in stock. If I remember correctly I got about 4 cabinets at a time - also at the Minneapolis Ikea.

[NBeth]

We live about that close to our Ikea. We built our kitchen in stages--something you might consider if storage/assembly space is tight.