IKEA KITCHEN CABINET COLOR CHOICES INSTALL
You actually have to disassemble them somewhat to install them.Plus, the base cabinets are about 30″ x 24″ and our old doorways are all 30″ - it was a tight fit. They’re pretty heavy, and the weight isn’t distributed evenly. Getting them from the car into the kitchen by myself was brutal, too. The assembled Home Depot cabinets are bulky, heavy, and awkward.I had to make multiple trips just to get them all home. I went to pick them up at Home Depot, and even with a completely empty hatchback with the back seat folded down, I could only get two cabinets in the car at once. However, I didn’t anticipate a few things: I convinced myself that the pre-assembled Home Depot cabinets would save me time and hassle compared to the IKEA ones - after all, it takes a solid half hour to assemble each IKEA cabinet, and that’s after you’ve done a couple of them and gotten the hang of it. We got a higher-end trim of the IKEA cabinets, so they could potentially be cheaper - but we got a small kitchen’s worth for about $1,600 total. In terms of overall cost, IKEA’s cabinets and Home Depot’s stock Hampton Bay line were roughly the same. Here’s how they compared in several key categories: Price: Even Which cabinets were easier to install, better quality, and just look nicer? Well, that’s easy: The IKEA cabinets beat Home Depot’s stock cabinets hands down in just about every category - except availability at the time. Lumber Liquidators), so I can give you a pretty good pros-and-cons review of each from a DIY perspective - at least from my personal experience with them. That means I’ve bought and installed both IKEA cabinets and Home Depot’s stock Hampton Bay cabinets (not to mention IKEA butcher block vs. (That thing almost killed me in the driveway.) We ended up getting stock cabinets and a regular Kohler cast iron sink from Home Depot, and one huge, eight-foot slab of maple butcher block from Lumber Liquidators. So we had to scrap our plans for IKEA Kitchen 2.0, and start shopping the big-box home improvement stores. We needed to get all this done while I had a break between jobs, so we didn’t have much flexibility in terms of timing. The double-basin apron-front sink is a hair over $300 - compare that to over $1,000 for a similar Kohler.)Īnd as if that wasn’t enough, they were out of butcher block counters, too. (IKEA’s Domsjo single-basin farmhouse sink, which we have in our own kitchen, costs less than $200 and looks fantastic - a similar one elsewhere can cost $800 or more. Plus, people had caught on to the ludicrous bargain that is IKEA’s apron-front farmhouse sink - it was back-ordered for two months and the associate said he wasn’t even allowed to sell it anymore. (And you can’t really install a kitchen with just “some” of the cabinets!) However, at the time, IKEA was in the middle of its summer kitchen sale and all the while phasing out its longstanding Akurum cabinet system, so they didn’t have a lot of the cabinets we wanted in stock in fact, it was going to take three weeks to get some of them in. It’s almost the exact same layout, so we figured we’d take roughly the same approach that worked so well for us a couple years earlier (and has worked out great since). Then last year, we ended up remodeling the kitchen in our downstairs apartment. We ultimately decided to go with IKEA cabinets because they’re cheap, pretty easy to install, surprisingly durable, and look great. You can read about it here in detail, but here’s a before-and-after shot to provide a visual summary:ĭuring our planning, I researched the hell out of stock, ready-to-assemble, and custom cabinets. A few years ago, we did a budget remodel of our gross, outdated kitchen.
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