Are Ikea Faktum and Ikea Metod compatible?

  • Erstellt am 2014-07-08 21:10:52

andreame

2014-07-08 21:10:52
  • #1
Dear forum users,

I have an 11-year-old Faktum kitchen and would like to do a bit of remodeling. Some of the white Applad fronts are no longer very nice, and I would like more wall cabinets, which is easily possible given my room height. I also don’t like the handles anymore. Three fronts (2 drawers, dishwasher) have fallen off and can no longer be mounted because of the stretched out drill holes (I might have to try wood filler again, maybe that will work...). And one of my two roller shutter cabinets is broken as well.

I wonder if it would be possible to mount Metod fronts on the Faktum corps, or if it would be worth completely switching to Metod for the wall cabinets. But what should I do then with the base cabinets that are also no longer very appealing? It’s not important to me that the upper and lower cabinets match — rather the opposite.

Oh, and one more question: I have six corps each 60 cm wide and 141 cm high. So far, they all stand normally on the floor. I would like to stack them as very tall tall cabinets (room height 3 m, so that would easily work out). Below are the refrigerator, built-in oven, and a pull-out pantry cabinet; above would then be the freezer (but that doesn’t matter to me, I don’t use it that often). Is there anything against my idea? And how are the corps fixed when stacking?

Thanks for tips and suggestions!

Best regards, Andrea
 

IKEA-Experte

2014-07-09 00:11:06
  • #2
Hello.


You could try drilling significantly larger holes, gluing wooden dowels into them, and then drilling the appropriate holes again.



Difficult. The METOD corps are 2 mm wider, as are the fronts. It might be that the gaps then become too narrow to open the doors easily. Also, the doors would protrude over the corps and you would have to drill appropriate hinge holes.



Order Faktum fronts again. Using METOD fronts will be a makeshift solution.



Not if done properly. Place the 60 cm cabinets upside down on the 141 cm cabinets and screw them together. Also secure them to the wall. Whether the freezer will work like that depends on the device.
 

andreame

2014-07-09 19:39:05
  • #3
Thank you very much for the many tips. Now I can proceed with realistic guidelines for further planning. I will probably renew the base Faktum fronts (either buy new ones or cover them with foil) and invest a bit so that I have Metod for the upper cabinets, where I really like the new design options with open colorful shelves. I would never have thought of turning the half-high cabinets around for more stability - thanks!

Best regards, Andrea
 

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