Ikea kitchen cabinets

[Anonymous]

I had an IKEA kitchen before I renovated. It held up well and I actually sold all the cabinets before I demo'd the kitchen. I think they are a decent option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really had trouble using the IKEA kitchen planning software. Did anyone else?

I've done a couple kitchens using the software. Agree it's not great, but you get used to it, and you get used to preparing for its glitches. I only have a mac at home and my work pc won't let me download the software, and using it on a mac is unbearable. I save a LOT, and often find that the next day I come back and half the cabinet fronts are missing from the saved design, and then they show up the next day. It definitely sucks, but I prefer the results (ie my own perfectly designed kitchen) compared to handing the reins over to a kitchen designer at a store who doesn't know how I cook or how I use my own kitchen, so we have to do a million back and forths and it never is exactly what I would have designed if I got to do it myself.

This is me as well.
Have had my IKEA cabinets for 8 years now. Still love it every day, seriously.

[Anonymous]

Do they smell? the formaldehyde.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do they smell? the formaldehyde.

No. this is something that troubles me as we about to do another kitchen, but I have to assume that any kitchen comparable in quality to ikea (i.e. at that price point and the next couple price points up at HD, which as noted above, are similar quality) is going to have the same made-in-china off-gassing issues. And since we're not looking to do super expensive custom, I guess we are stuck.

[Anonymous]

When does IKEA have sales? (PP on page 2 said that they bought during a 25% off sale.)

[Anonymous]

The sale lasts for a couple months, happens twice a year. Unfortunately we just missed it. I think the next one will be sept oct or thereabouts.