An Ikea kitchen is innovative, well-designed, inexpensive, effective, and attractive. But it teeters on the edge of chintzy. It is vital to control the myriad details to avoid a bad impression for buyers.
I wasn't very impressed, for example, with the ODENSVIK vanity sink. The GODMORGON high-gloss red vanity cabinet (shown at right, above) is ok, but the sinks are too shallow with too little usable space around the sink. But I think the "black-brown" LAXARBY cabinets work well in the dining room (I'll need a light-colored table).
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| LAXARBY has a subtle molding to it. Upper door with glass shown. |
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| LAXARBY base cabinet door/drawer front. High-gloss gray RINGHULT to the right. |
In the kitchen itself, I chose RINGHULT fronts in high-gloss gray for the base and high-gloss white for the uppers. It's a nice look, but it's the most expensive doors that Ikea sells. RINGHULT is 188% of the price of BJORKET, a nice, clean, Shaker maple-ish design.
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| BJORKET door detail |
Maybe we could do the kitchen in BJORKET, with the more refined LAXARBY in the dining room. (LAXARBY is 126% of BJORKET.) We're talking about, very roughly, $1,300 less for BJORKET than RINGHULT.
Ikea sells
Caesarstone. Two colors I like are each $59/SF, templated, delivered and installed. Based on Home Depot and Lowe's, I budgeted $75/SF.
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| "Ocean Foam" (like Vanilla Bean ice cream) adjacent to BJORKET cabinet door |
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| "Nougat" has larger aggregate. It's about as bright as Ocean Foam, but I messed with the exposure to show the stuff mixed in with white. |
I also particularly like Ikea's solution for corners. I'm planning one on either side of the range.
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| The shelves pivot independently and are not attached to the door, so neither has to swing out. The cabinet doors shown here, by the way, are BJORKET. |
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