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I'm glad, but sad that I found this site. I was content to go forward with my design, but there are sooooo many ideas and possibilities that now I'm returning to my paralyzed state. I want to read all the posts because I'm afraid once I purchase and install, I'll learn a new trick from this site and be totally bummed that I wasn't aware before. I've been in my house for over a year and my indecisiveness and prevented me from doing anything except taking down ugly wallpaper and now I have even uglier walls. I occasionally make impulse purchases that usually leave me with buyer's remorse, so now at at the other end of the spectrum.....too scared to buy anything
My current kitchen is very small and I have a built-in 24' oven on an awkwardly placed wall. I tried to upload jpeg pictures of my current kitchen, but they were too large and I couldn't figure out how to decrease the size. I'd really like you to be able to see what I'm working with currently. If someone knows how I can condense the file size, please let me know.
But, for now, here's my new design which is based on a design that I received from KitchenMasters. I had gone to them prior to finding IKEA, but their price was way out of my budget.
Here are a few things to note
The wall with the range is currently only 45"X55 1/2. There's a 24" built in oven on one side, with a closet on the other side. I am having the length of the closet/wall extended about 30" and about 28" of width removed. So, the wall will be about 75"x27"
I'm considering an oven cabinet, but couldn't get it to work in the planner.
The window is currently too big for the small kitchen, is not centered with the sink and extends too far to have a corner cabinet. I am having a portion of the window closed in so it's more proportionate to the room and I'll have some wall space to the right of it to accommodate the corner cabinet.
The picture that shows the pantry in the wall is a view when coming up from the basement. The pull out pantry will occupy some of the closet space.
The pull-out cabinet next to the sink will actually be a trash compactor. Will it look odd having the trash compactor right next to the dishwasher?
I'm considering buying a counter depth refrigerator although I still can't quite get my head around the idea that there's less depth, but it costs much more!! I need some ideas to fill the space above refrig cabinet so it's flush with the others.
Since the space is small, is it realistic for me to want this style extractor hood? Especially considering it'll require duct work to make it happen. I just LOVE the look of those, but I don't want my small space to be overtaken by it.
The side where the stools are leads into my dining area.
There are sliding doors next to the 12" depth base cabinet. I chose to make that cabinet shallow to help accommodate for the walk space that the peninsula will take up.
You're pretty far along! You've got well-defined plans and are asking detailed questions about your hood, so you don't seem as indecisive as you make yourself out to be!
One thing that really helps when you're in this situation is having a mission statement- makes it easy to stay true to your core needs.
Idea file- are there kitchens that you really like that you have photos of? It's good to know what you're shooting for aesthetically so our input is on track with your desires.
How much space is there between your penninsula and the cabinet across from it?
Lastly, I'm a fan of the clean lines, and lots of repetition of size. It feels to me that you've got lots going on in this little kitchen and maybe a good place to start is with a very stripped down version and then add back in some features.
Welcome!! We look forward to hearing and seeing more of your project!
Hi Lynda, i think i met you in another thread as well
If you want to see some nifty ideas that Ikea doesn't catalog you can sift through the modifications forum. I just did my mom's kitchen and did at least 8 tweaks or modifications in order to personalize the kitchen for her. I don't have my pictures organized yet, but something might make you say, "what the heck? didn't know i could do that" i have my blog of the reno and i also have a link to my photobucket account (in my signature the link says photo dump)
If you come up with an idea and want to know if it works just let me know.... we have quite a few good mechanical people who like to "solve" modification challenges
Welcome and happy tko!
is the peninsula made of cabinets or just a build out? it looks like you could make it with shallow cabinets facing out to the stools. you'd have to finish the kitchen side, but that's not a big deal; i like maximizing storage
Kelly, there will be about 50 inches between the shallow cabinet and the peninsula. Currently, the peninsula is on the other side, a little bit longer and there's only about a 26" passageway. I was thinking about nixing the peninsula all together because the space is so small, but my daughter really likes to sit there and do her homework while I'm cooking, so I'm trying to fit it in.
Most of the design came from the layout that Kitchen Masters created for me. However, I don't have a hardcopy of it, so I had to wing it from memory.
Dulci, yes I am going to use 2 shallow 21 inch cabinets under the peninsula. On the ktichen side, there'd be 18 inches exposed and I was hoping maybe I could put a door there to create access to that cabinet from both sides. Other than that, the most I was planning to do as far as modifications is maybe gloss the doors up a little bit more and possibly deepen the red tone for a more cherry look, but I'll check out the modification section to see if there are other ideas I can adopt. There just so many possibilities when you talk about mod and that'll surely return me to Procrastination Land .
Right now, I have so little cabinet and counter space and no continuous walls that I can use for cabinets, that I think I was trying to fill every spot I can. Does this make the space look too crowded?
I was able to figure out how to reduce the pixels of my current kitchen photos, so you can see what I'm working with. There's also a picture of a nook set that I want to go in the corner of my dining area.
Pic 1 is current wall A, pic 2 is current wall C, pic 3 is current view from dining area, pic 4 is another angle of wall C (shows current pantry on the side), pic 5 is view from kitchen into dining area. My plan requires some of the dining area becoming the kitchen. I'm taking up the carpet to create more of a "one room" look.
It's times like these when part of me really wishes I had a DH to bounce ideas off of, but then the sensible me kicks in and realizes......woohoo, I've got no one else to try to please. However, it certainly would be nice if someone was helping me pay for it!
OMG - I am SOOOO you, Lynda. So you. I am the hugest chicken in the world about my kitchen - I've been planning it forever! I like your design but I'm not a good person to critique - I have no clue what I'm doing as indicated by the fact that I cannot get my kitchen into the IKEA planner - I have wall cabinets laying on the ground and every time I try to use the planner my computer goes slow... slower... almost at a standstill. So at least you're as far as using the planner!
Your statement that you're afraid to go forward and then find out later that you could have done something different/better is my fear exactly. Once I finally get started (whenever that will be!) I plan to try hard not to look around at other ideas. Just if they are a possibility to modify what I already have. (Like I have the right size cabinet and if I bought the right door/drawer I could change what I have to a cool new idea. But if I cannot - then I'm going to try hard to tell myself that I shouldn't have looked!)
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