Feedback on the Ikea kitchen

Hello, we have all pots and pans in a 105 cm cabinet under the hob: From top to bottom: * 13 cm cutlery drawer * 26 cm pan drawer * 39 cm pot drawer with insert for the lids

Sooo, I just cleared out a 60 cm drawer and filled it twice. The idea was that you get more cabinet yield with the available space without the Rondels or LeMans cabinets.
Since I have the LeMans, as mentioned above, if I left a dead corner, I would only have a 60 cm cabinet available.
Don’t be surprised, one pan is filled with Bolognese from the fridge, but I wouldn’t put anything else in it anyway. In the second picture, three pans share one spot; it doesn't need to be more.

Those are what’s left over


So: if you have space for wider cabinets, you might as well do without the corners. However, if the capacity is limited and, like me, you don’t want to clumsily open a meter of drawer with several kilos every time, the corner variants would be an alternative.
This is probably exactly why they were developed, namely to use every corner space-savingly.
By the way, in my old kitchen, I had all my plates in an 80 cm pull-out cabinet from Ikea: quite cumbersome and hard to open, and the drawer sagged downward.

The quality also matters. I have reserved a 1m pull-out for drinks, which can easily hold 50kg of weight. My two-year-old opens and closes it by herself. Therefore, the argument is not entirely universally valid.

By the way, I had all my plates in an 80s pull-out cabinet from Ikea in my old place: quite cumbersome and hard to open, and the drawer sagged downwards

And that probably shows the quality differences. Our drawers don’t get harder to open despite being loaded and don’t sag downwards either. Our advisor at the kitchen studio even stood inside one of the pull-outs – no problem.

I already said in the first pages that an Ikea kitchen should be avoided Nevertheless, I am surprised about the heavy load: I was once able to test the meter-long drawers of a quality kitchen at a friend’s place: to me, these drawers would be too heavy when well loaded (this also applies to the Apo cabinet that I had myself)

You're not entirely wrong, Yvonne. If the medicine cabinet were really full of cans and stuff, it would be very hard to open. At first, we stored our entire stock in there due to lack of space in the utility room. Meanwhile, the heavy tomato bottles and such have all been moved to a heavy-duty shelf in the utility room. Since then, only tea, cornflakes... dry storage in small quantities are kept in there. Now it opens easily and smoothly.