Browse Forums Kitchen Corner 1 Jun 01, 2010 6:59 pm Hi everyone IKEA in Western Australia are currently running a competition for people who have installed an IKEA kitchen. We have entered the competition and would love to know what you all think of our kitchen. Please click on the link (you may need to copy and paste it): http://www.mykitchensucks.com.au/link/1 ... chen+rocks and then click 'David's kitchen rocks' if you like our kitchen. Thanks so much & best wishes! David & Abby Re: IKEA kitchen - what do you think? 4Jun 02, 2010 3:52 pm Thanks so much for all your votes so far We, especially our oldest daughter (the one covered in chocolate), love our kitchen and it is defintely what attracted us to the house we are living in. Unfortunely the rest of the house needs a lot of work doing to it but I'm glad I found this website as I have already got loads of ideas for things I want to do. Re: IKEA kitchen - what do you think? 5Jul 25, 2010 8:33 pm Hey everyone. We've tried EVERYTHING with kitchens. First, we tried getting my dad to do his Uncle Arthur routine putting some carcasses together, and we purchased benchtops, doors and handles separately. Good for rental, but no way Hosea for "our" place. Looked a little bit botched. Second, we imported an entire flatpack kitchen package from a warehouse that brought products across from China. Granite (albeit cheap and poorer quality) benches, two-pack doors, all-in-all great value. But!!! and here comes the but.... we waited three months after the delivery date and had a hard time communicating with the warehouse because of my poor Mandarin and their poor English. And we had to BUTCHER the shells to fit and get a couple of extra doors made up, which looked "okay" but not 100% perfect. This time, the third-time-lucky renovation that we'd like to call our "own" place... I can't help but gravitate toward the IKEA kitchen. Their hinges and hardware, coupled with their brilliant storage accessories make me think that they are the smart choice. HOWEVER, we have a room that is not square in the corner... sort of a parallellogram-shaped kitchen-dining. Does anyone have experience with modifying the IKEA flatpacks to fit? I don't want to have to butcher any carcasses this time around, cutting them up poorly just to make them fit. The plan is to purchase kickers / plinths, carcasses, accessories, cupboard doors from IKEA, and then purchase a great stone benchtop separately. Also, any word on IKEA after-sales support? Anyone had to enact a dreaded WARRANTY claim? We're from Geelong (70kms from IKEA Richmond), but we visit Melbourne at least once a week. I always appreciate any ideas and your experiences... please post your thoughts! JESS JESS ANDY and OLIVE 1850's Bluestone Terrace House, Central Geelong. "Bite off more than you can chew, and then start chewing like hell!" Re: IKEA kitchen - what do you think? 6Jul 25, 2010 8:47 pm We used IKEA carcasses; they're excellent value but we had the doors/drawers/bench made by Allboards. In the case of the out of square kitchen... depends how severe it is. You might need to go get a custom one to fit that corner. I would not use ikea doors (you can still use their hinges if you like them) because I find their colour range poor and comparatively expensive. We've never done a warranty claim for IKEA stuff - never ever needed to. Status: sold our first house, moved in with parents, bought our second in Pakenham, still planning to build in a few years time. Re: IKEA kitchen - what do you think? 7Jul 27, 2010 9:35 pm Hi Jess, I have asked a few people (including our renovation design consultant) about putting an IKEA kitchen in a home we are wanting to renovate in Geelong (Investment Property) and all have re-directed me to Bunnings as their kitchens are suppose to be more "durable" kitchen for a rental property. ?? Perhaps do your own comparison between Bunnings and IKEA's kitchen and take a plan into both stores and see what answers their sales consultants to give you with the "Non-square" corner. I have only heard good reports too on the guys Bunnings send out to assemble the kitchen for you. Ps: We're from Adelaide and settle on our property in Geelong in a few weeks. We would be grateful for any tradesmens you can recommend in the Geelong area. Thank you Kylie Re: IKEA kitchen - what do you think? 8Jul 31, 2010 10:34 pm pobjoy1 Hey everyone. We've tried EVERYTHING with kitchens. First, we tried getting my dad to do his Uncle Arthur routine putting some carcasses together, and we purchased benchtops, doors and handles separately. Good for rental, but no way Hosea for "our" place. Looked a little bit botched. Second, we imported an entire flatpack kitchen package from a warehouse that brought products across from China. Granite (albeit cheap and poorer quality) benches, two-pack doors, all-in-all great value. But!!! and here comes the but.... we waited three months after the delivery date and had a hard time communicating with the warehouse because of my poor Mandarin and their poor English. And we had to BUTCHER the shells to fit and get a couple of extra doors made up, which looked "okay" but not 100% perfect. This time, the third-time-lucky renovation that we'd like to call our "own" place... I can't help but gravitate toward the IKEA kitchen. Their hinges and hardware, coupled with their brilliant storage accessories make me think that they are the smart choice. HOWEVER, we have a room that is not square in the corner... sort of a parallellogram-shaped kitchen-dining. Does anyone have experience with modifying the IKEA flatpacks to fit? I don't want to have to butcher any carcasses this time around, cutting them up poorly just to make them fit. The plan is to purchase kickers / plinths, carcasses, accessories, cupboard doors from IKEA, and then purchase a great stone benchtop separately. Also, any word on IKEA after-sales support? Anyone had to enact a dreaded WARRANTY claim? We're from Geelong (70kms from IKEA Richmond), but we visit Melbourne at least once a week. I always appreciate any ideas and your experiences... please post your thoughts! JESS A few years back I did a reno in an apartment I brought in St Kilda. Kitchen was the first thing done and I went the Ikea route. I was a little worried about it being flat packed and DIY. But was very pleased it all fit into my then car a 2001 VW Beetle! Sink and bench top included! Ikea gave the the business card of some guys would would install the cabinets for me. The area like yours was not square, being an old place there were pipes hanging out of the walls, the hot water service was under the bench and the splash back had about 3 layers of tiles I had tried to chip off. SO you can imagine not the best starting point. But the got it in in about half a day, including overhead cupboards. It cost me $500 for the instal. I had an issue with the storage racks in the corner cabinet unit. I think I was overloading the top rack and the plastic hinges/clips holding it together broke after about 6 months. I had my recipte and they replaced it no questions asked. My mum needs a new kitchen and im pushing her down the Ikea road, its simple and cost effective. Here are a couple of pics for reference: Before Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ During Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ After Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ NO EXPECTATIONS, NO DISAPPOINTMENTS! Build Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=27441 Landscaping Thread: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=43969 Re: IKEA kitchen - what do you think? 10Aug 06, 2010 12:56 am bryky Ps: We're from Adelaide and settle on our property in Geelong in a few weeks. We would be grateful for any tradesmens you can recommend in the Geelong area. Thank you Kylie Hey Kylie, Welcome to sunny Geelong! I can certainly recommend you some tradies. We've done three properties in Geelong now and have got some really reliable guys that we use. Shoot me an email: andrew@andrewpobjoy.com Good luck with the move. ANDY (Jess' hubby) JESS ANDY and OLIVE 1850's Bluestone Terrace House, Central Geelong. "Bite off more than you can chew, and then start chewing like hell!" Re: IKEA kitchen - what do you think? 11Aug 06, 2010 1:11 am WOW! boiselfish, I wholeheartedly agree with Elizabeth: that is truly magnificent. We just love the product that IKEA offers, and it seems that, with the aide of some crafty installation experts, you managed to overcome all of the room's quirks and corners with no hassle at all. A well-known fact is that flatpacks are a leading cause of family breakdown, so I really like the idea of engaging the services of a professional. boiselfish, How did you get the L-shaped kitchen to fit perfectly across the far wall (beneath window)??? That is a miracle in itself. We have a huge combined living / kitchen / dining area, so not concerned with the L-shaped kitchen actually fitting snugly across the breadth of a room. However, we have a 90cm oven and cooktop, and IKEA don't have cabinets big enough to accommodate 90cm appliances. Do you think that a gifted installer could get past those problems too? Below is a link to the plans for an IKEA kitchen, as expertly drawn by **yours truly** as PDF files. It just gives you an idea of what we're doing and planning. http://64.23.57.205/pevensey/kitchen01.pdf http://64.23.57.205/pevensey/kitchen02.pdf Love your comments on this post, everyone. Would really appreciate any more advice or info. ANDY / JESS JESS ANDY and OLIVE 1850's Bluestone Terrace House, Central Geelong. "Bite off more than you can chew, and then start chewing like hell!" Re: IKEA kitchen - what do you think? 12Aug 06, 2010 3:39 pm Certainly not as classy looking as boiselfish's Ikea makeover but here is my very first reno in a rental apartment I purchased (and have now sold) back in 2006. My mum/sisters and I assembled the carcasses ourselves, and fit them into the kitchen/bolted to the walls (we also laid the laminate flooring ourselves), then I had a tradie come in and fit the benchtop and the kickers. I went for boring and cheap as it was only a rental (and before I knew a kitchen could be anything but black and white ) The room also was not very square, being a 1960's apartment, so we had a helluva time fitting those carcasses to the walls, especially in the corners!! Quite a few arguments later, voilà: Before: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ After: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: IKEA kitchen - what do you think? 14Aug 06, 2010 8:12 pm pobjoy1 WOW! boiselfish, I wholeheartedly agree with Elizabeth: that is truly magnificent. boiselfish, How did you get the L-shaped kitchen to fit perfectly across the far wall (beneath window)??? That is a miracle in itself. We have a huge combined living / kitchen / dining area, so not concerned with the L-shaped kitchen actually fitting snugly across the breadth of a room. However, we have a 90cm oven and cooktop, and IKEA don't have cabinets big enough to accommodate 90cm appliances. Do you think that a gifted installer could get past those problems too? ANDY / JESS Well... If you look closely next to the oven (you probably cant see it only I know its there), the installers put a small piece of white melamine from some other part of the pack to make it look like it fit snugly. I think it was out by about 7 cm so that was their solution. SO look at the picture and you can se I purchased the oven/hot plate unit, a draw unit, a 60 cm unit for the sink, one corner unit and then another 2 45 cm units(I think) where were made into one to accommodate the hot water service under the bench. As for the bench top I cant remember the lengths it came in but im sure it was over 2m so it was just cut to size to fit correctly. As for the 90 cm appliances you have you could consider 2 of the 60 cm oven sections and cut them to size (taking 15 cm off both thus creating a 90 cm oven section). The installer should be able to overcome most of your problems I would suggest going to Ikea and getting them to provide you with installer details. They will be very experienced in their range of things and may have better suggestions for you. Helpful? Hope so! NO EXPECTATIONS, NO DISAPPOINTMENTS! Build Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=27441 Landscaping Thread: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=43969 Re: IKEA kitchen - what do you think? 15Aug 12, 2010 8:10 pm Pobjoy We were planning an Ikea kitchen, and the Ikea kitchen planning person I talked with said a lot of people just buy a couple of panels and get a cabinet maker to knock together a 900mm oven cabinet. Of course, the trick is to find someone who's happy to just do the one part of a kitchen! (We've since found a kitchen mob here in Melbourne who will do us a E0 (no vocs) kitchen for not a heap more than we would have paid with Ikea. Hooray, now I just have to find an E0 laminate or veneer I can live with. ) e. Re: IKEA kitchen - what do you think? 16Oct 13, 2010 12:34 pm Hi Andy & Jess, (Pobjoy1) I'm having trouble contacting you and wonder if you're still happy to share the tradies you've used in the Geelong area... We'd love to hear from you. You can contact me direct: via pm (edited by mod to remove private contact details) No. It's not original. Circa early to mid 90s would be my guess and maybe even as late as early 2000s 1 6636 Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 39767 Looking to start the journey of becoming an owner builder in SA. 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