Buy Ikea kitchen - questions

Hi, what a great forum! I’m very happy that I found it!!!

I might also buy an Ikea kitchen and have a few questions. Unfortunately, the nearest Ikea is very far away, so I can’t look and ask the staff. I tried calling the hotline, but it’s impossible to get through and the email response takes a very long time. That’s why I’m very glad this forum exists! What I want to know is:

1. In the finished cabinet combinations ME something, the product description always says “legs and plinths are sold separately.” What does that mean? Are the plinths shown in the pictures included or are only the feet included and do you have to buy the plinths separately?

2. The pure carcasses don’t come with feet or plinths. Do you then buy an individual plinth? There is none under 220 cm. An inconvenient size, you always have waste. If, as it seems, you have to saw yourself, are there at least markings on the back for the different widths and depths? It would be better if Ikea offered ready-made sets, after all, there are only 2 depths and 4 widths.

3. There are also 2m high doors. How and where do you put the handles on those? I like, for example, these Orrnäs handles. Do you attach them vertically (but that wouldn’t match the rest of the cabinets) or horizontally, and are there markings on the back of the door for that, at least lines for the height (there are many different handles)?

Thanks in advance!

Why should there be ready-made sets for the base? Your kitchen might be 3m wide, mine 4m.

To answer your questions. The baseboards and the feet must be purchased separately. Just use the online planner, then you'll see what you need.

The same goes for the handles, use the planner, there you can customize everything individually.

And markings on the plinth panel would also not make sense. If a 7.5 cm wide filler panel is needed between the wall and the cabinet, and the row is, for example, 167.5 cm wide, the plinth panel must also be cut to the appropriate length. It is not a freestanding kitchen but a built-in kitchen.

Handles are mounted as one sees fit. Why should a handle on a tall cabinet, for example, be mounted in a fixed position that is too high for one person and too low for another? One can mix vertical and horizontal alignment of the handles. It does not look bad at all. I find it most ergonomic when handles on hinged doors are mounted vertically and on drawers / pull-outs horizontally. Others, however, prefer knobs.

... and for marking the drill holes there is a template called "Fixa", if you like ...
Regards,
IKEA-Friend

Hello you three, thanks for your tips!

I can't get along with the planner, you can't plan that individually with it. I thought you could build your own combinations of carcases, doors and drawers, but no way, the planner only ever offers certain combinations and the corresponding elements to choose from. For example, I don't want to install my oven at 80 cm height, but at 100 cm, and of course I then need different drawers and doors accordingly, namely two 40 cm and one 20 cm drawer as well as a 40 cm door on top. Not possible, this stupid program only offers 60 cm high doors and always these two 40 cm drawers. Then I want to put my own fridge-freezer combo into a built-in cabinet with a 2 m door and put a shelf above it. Not possible. I want to lay a long countertop over several base cabinets. Not possible. And certainly not over washing machine, dryer (no space for that in the bathroom) and base cabinet. There are no heating units etc., almost everyone has a combination heater in the kitchen, but Ikea doesn’t have anything like that in the planner. You can only use a "wall obstacle." Then various elements cannot be arranged as they are with me, e.g. the gas connection, which I would have to enter mirrored; besides, it is on an exposed gas pipe about 70 cm next to the combination heater at about 60 cm wall height. But none of this works either. Quite a lot doesn’t work...

I once recreated the ME 717 in the planner until I reached the price of €113 and found out that, unlike the product image, the upper shelf and the plinth are not included, only the ventilation grille that is inserted into the separately purchased and cut-to-size plinth. That is quite misleading.

Why do you actually need filler panels?

Apparently, there are many pitfalls when planning an Ikea kitchen...

Hi!

I don’t use the planner either, the thing is, as you already said, very inflexible, cumbersome too, but what bothers me most is the inaccuracy. Also, the dimensions are displayed way too small, I can hardly see them on the monitor! So I do everything in my typesetting program, only 3D is naturally missing, but the dimensions are very precise. Because the planner only runs in the browser, there are sometimes problems, a version to download would be better.

In my opinion, the planner is meant for "warming up," the customer should first "play around," maybe even find more than originally planned, and the icing on the cake is this 3D representation that makes them even more excited about the kitchen... But since the accuracy leaves much to be desired, you ultimately have to turn to the consultation, which is intended. But not bad either, because I think you can go a lot wrong.

Bases and feet are not included in the assemblies, so buy them separately.
You don’t necessarily need end panels at the ends of the rows, you could also leave the space free.