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[quote=Anonymous]PP here, no personal experience with IKD but I read their blog in detail when I was designing my kitchen and i found it to be very helpful. Ikea has a lot of idiosyncratic things.

I did my kitchen in 2019 and ended up hiring a contractor who was really experienced with Ikea and had fantastic design intuition. He came up with a design that was a million times better than what the Ikea in-store designer suggested. I also saw a professional kitchen and bath store designer who actually put together 7 different options in CAD for me, but they still were not nearly as good as his solution. I won't even mention another contractor I saw who suggested taking a chunk out of my dining room for the fridge...

A lot of what my contractor said echoed the IKD tips. I have unusual layout issues in my kitchen, it wasn't a perfect rectangle suited to a U-shape layout, hence I can say one design ended up being far superior. If you have a very easy layout you will probably get a good design from lots of sources. (BTW the actual work installing the kitchen didn't go well and the quality was subpar. That's why I won't recommend him.)

After you put your plan into the Ikea software, take it to the store to have the employee check it, at that time you can ask her to manually remove all the doors from the design if you plan to use Semihandmade or something like that. It's safer to have them do that than do that yourself.

My tips for you: disregard this work triangle BS, you only need the sink to be close to the cooktop. The fridge can be anywhere in the kitchen. It's actually better for it to be somewhere else so other people can access it without disturbing the cook.

Also, if you have one solid wall to work with, you can put the fridge on a wall of floor to ceiling cabinets - meaning no countertops - which both gives you tons of pantry space and is more visually pleasing.

Put your downlights all around but close to your cabinets (6-12 inches away from the cabinet doors) instead of in a grid pattern. And put a strong spotlight type downlight over the sink. [/quote]

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