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I have been doing some research on Ikea kitchens and am just running into a couple issues. I wonder if anyone has dealt with a corner sink? We do not want to reconfigure our kitchen layout - just replace the cabinets. Ikea doesn't have any corner sink units. I wonder if the regular cabinet can be slid into the corner (there is enough room), or if we could build a special cabinet and just attach the fronts/doors from Ikea. Any suggestions????
IKEA does have a corner sink, and they recommend using the 37" corner base for it. I've got a picture we took last weekend, but I warn you....the installation in the countertop is really atrocious.
Although this is some bastardization of cabinetry, usually a corner sink is installed in the 37" corner base, aka the "easy reach" base, which has the double hinged door. What size sink/sink base do you have now?
I hope I don't offend anyone by saying this, but I think that batwing sink is really really awful! My current corner cabinet holds the sink at an angle. The cabinet is about 46x46 and the sink is about 30x19. The countertops and sink are nice (prior owners did a partial remodel) so we were hoping just to change the cabinets. If we redo everything on top of Ikea cabs we would end up spending as much as having custom cabs built......so I'm hoping there may be another solution. Any ideas you have would be great. We may make a trip to Ikea this weekend and see what they have to say - I'm not sure if their people are really knowledgeable or not.
Here are a couple photos of the current cabinet/sink:
It seems to me that with some careful measuring combined with an IKEA doorfront (and possibly a bit of filler, depending on the size and/or door function) would allow you to get away with only having a single cabinet carcass (corner) custom made...probably not a huge expense, and you could keep your existing countertops and sink.
I can see why you want to keep the counters and sink - very nice! So it sounds like you're investigating whether you can remove the counters and slip some Ikea cabinets under there - right? Is the counter removable without damaging it?
Have you considered putting the 36" sink base on an angle? That seems the most reasonable approach because it gives you a flat front that matches the flat front of the sink. You'd have some dead space between that cabinet and adjoining cabinets, but maybe that isn't a huge issue if you're otherwise happy with the layout.
Otherwise, you could look at refinishing or refacing - lots of discussion of that over on the gardenweb kitchen forum.
It is questionable, but possible, that the counter can be removed without damaging it. I've heard that it can't be done from a couple people. However, when it was installed, it wasn't really done properly. It's not entirely attached. you can actually lift it up slightly and it moves......so we're just crossing our fingers and hoping it can be salvaged. Otherwise, it would add another 5-6000K to the remodel price.
I have considered putting the 36" sink base in at an angle. As long as that would work with the plumbing underneath, it should be fine....but I don't know the answer to that question.
aalverson -- very nice sink/counter combo. Kathy's right -- you can just use a 36" sink base at an angle. Is that what you have in there now, or do you have a trapezoidal cabinet?
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As long as that would work with the plumbing underneath, it should be fine....but I don't know the answer to that question.
The answer to your question has more to do with your plumbing than it does with the IKEA cabinetry. Namely: where do your supply pipes enter the current cabinet? In the back, it's simple...the backs of the IKEA cabinets are thin fiberboard/masonite...something like that. Easy to cut to suit your plumbing. If the supply comes up through the floor (like ours), it might be more difficult to try to slip a cabinet in there, but not impossible.
It sounds like this should work! My plumbing is all coming out of the wall behind the cabinet. Yes, my cabinet is kind of a trapezoidal shape, and now that I've looked more closely, it is basically a corner cabinet without a back, so it is open to the walls behind it. I would think we could just cut what we needed to out of the back of the Ikea cabinet to let the plumbing in, as long as we supported the cabinet enough to have the heavy countertop and sink on it. Does this sound right?
Thanks for all the quick replies - you all are very helpful!
That's exactly what you would do. The back of the cabinets is not really a structural piece, it's just there to keep everything square. The strength comes from the sides and the legs. You'll be fine to cut out for your piping, we just cut out a giant square to fit all the pipes and associated bits and pieces through the back of the cab.
You may need to fashion something to keep continuous support under the countertop in those triangular voids on either side of the corner cabinet, though, to make sure there is no vulnerable stress point on the countertop.
Just my 2 cents here since you asked for experience
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/em, but I've live w/a split corner sink (a bit like Ikea's in
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above) and we hated it. We're so used to swinging the faucet from one basin to the other we'd always forget to turn it off first, and the splash - and you/counter/floor are all wet. I have to say we found it really akward to use too, working into the corner. We had it for a year only in a rental house we used to live in - not our choice. The angled sink cab is a great solution to this!
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W is a wall cabinet designation, as in W18, can be a stand-in for Wide, or when followed by a / stands for With.
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