Discuss getting started on IKEAFANS.com. We're Personalizing the IKEA Experience. getting started - Trade tips on getting through to the kitchen department, phone and fax ordering, what to do about returns, and dealing with issues and problems after the fact - from a distance..
I'm admitting it: I'm having trouble getting started on my kitchen. I can't use the planner because I'm on Mac? I can't order a Duvbo end panel or drawer front to look at in my kitchen & match floors & counters with? I've been on the phone with Ikea Direct & my local (Schaumburg) and it's a dead end unless I drive an hour there & an hour back? Surely there are workarounds, it can't be this hard. Does anybody have any? Thanks, I'm really not this crabby, I promise!
I do think a trip or two to your local IKEA is well worth your time. You'll have your kitchen for quite a while, and getting a visual perspective will really help. Also, at the store they have a 3D model set you can use. As for the planner, if you will post your room dimensions, locations and sizes of doors and windows and location of utilities, plus a bit about what you're thinking of doing and the feeling you want to achieve (see the thread on The Value of a Mission Statement) we'll be happy to work up some options and post them for you.
If your local IKEA has DUVBO in stock, you can certainly pick up a door. Some IKEAs don't always carry all the styles in stock though. Then your choice is either trying the As Is room for a return, or asking for a sample from the store, or perhaps someone here has something they can send you for that purpose.
So jump right in and post some pix and info and we'll be glad to help you out!
Thanks. I was just off the phone after many calls to IDirect & the store when I sent the above. My license on crabbiness has, thankfully, expired.
So here's my scoop: Schaumburg does not carry Duvbo in stock. Ikea Direct doesn't know what I'm talking about when I say I'd like a piece to match. So I'm going to go take a floor sample with me & check it out. I'm looking at a Novalis vinyl tile, it's a "moss slate" color. Oh, alas, gone are my days of access to flooring at wholesale.
Right now, my kitchen is almost completely bare, so I'm lucky with that, I only have idescribably worn used-to-be pink wallpaper to remove & simple wall patching & repairs to get going. Oh, and the floor will take 1/4" under. No moving of pipes or electric, as everything is where it belongs.
If you had an ugly floor contest, I would win. Really. Nothing could beat the remnants of that 70's mustard and gold once the wear layer is gone, and mine has been gone for a decade. My daughter cringes everytime the grandchildren crawl across it. Older grandchildren have stood on that floor & asked, "Are you guys poor?" Thus, my motivation for change and confidence in winning for worst floor.
I actually have thought to use Varde for the lowers, even though my vision is about no white plasticky stuff, well, my appliances are white & plasticky anyway. I don't see photos of members' Varde kitchens here?
I'll try to get it together & post my measurements elsewhere & perhaps some kind soul will put it into Ikea friendly planner status so's I can get a look & do some ordering.
Ginger, this is exactly what we did, and I highly recommend it.
After perusing the site and catalogs, we had chosen Nexus Birch. Off we went with a panel of our laminate flooring in hand to our IKEA (we're lucky, only 30 minutes away). We knew the instant we put the piece of flooring down that our choice just wouldn't work. We picked another door style in white, and went home. After two more visits (and two more door style changes), we ordered our Applad kitchen last night. Until this is over, we will carry a piece of our flooring in the truck so that any unscheduled stops at counter and tile places won't be wasted time.
Lisa, I am newly afraid of posting my own kitchen floor, as yours appears just not that bad to me. I do remember the green floor fad. A family in our neighborhood decorated their entire house in avacado & gold at the time. (Here in Wisconsin it was also about the Green Bay Packers, wrong green but they needed a theme I guess.) And I like your brick thing. But I will enlist the help of my daughter, we'll take some pix and post. Get ready, your hair will stand on end. Those with heart conditions or post traumatic stress disorder should be warned before being exposed. The tear-out is going to be about as big a moment as the birth of my children. BTW, I will never tell how long we've lived with it.
Martine, my friend reminded me yesterday that I'm dealing with off-white cabinets (Duvbo) & stone-looking flooring. It's a no-brainer. How could it not match? I think it's harder when you're matching wood to wood. Every now & then the universe tells me to stop & just accept---so I'm doing that, but will take my sample to the store just in case the universe (and my friend) are wrong!
(cut, snip)...I'm dealing with off-white cabinets (Duvbo) & stone-looking flooring. It's a no-brainer. How could it not match? I think it's harder when you're matching wood to wood...
Actually, Ginger, our laminate flooring is faux ceramic tile, not wood. Surprisingly, though, the Nexus just didn't look good.
I look at it this way: you don't lose bringing a piece of whatever along with you.
True, true, true. Thanks for the reminder, I'm also looking at my mission statement. I guess there's part of me that's, like, ANY NEW FLOOR would be so good, I'm ready to even put in wall to wall carpet samples - like I did in my bedroom when I was 14. Ginger
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