Feedback on the Ikea kitchen

Thank you for your feedback. Here again with 2 m cabinets and without the open one (otherwise newspapers and such would have gone there):

I like the oak tall cabinet wall. You want to go with the Ekestad front after all - right? As an alternative for the base cabinets, I would try the Hittarp front instead of Brodbyn. I think it also has a country-style touch but is visually more flexible for the arrangement of the base cabinets in drawers and pull-outs because no additional horizontal lines are created by the frame fronts.

Oh yes, and if your height allows it, I would increase the oven and placeholder compartments in the tall cabinet wall by one grid .. or is it two? In any case, so that the upper cabinet compartments are aligned. It would also provide more elbow room. And, I think it has already been written here, I would start after the corner with the freezer or pantry cabinet, then the oven cabinet and placeholder cabinet, then the refrigerator. Then, in case the oven cannot be placed higher because you are short , the upper cabinet compartments, as they are now, would also look better.

For the oven, the top insertion level should be approximately at shoulder height. To determine this rail height, you can subtract about 15 cm on average from the top edge of the oven for control panels and technology.
At a body height of 165 cm, the shoulder height should be approximately 140 cm, so the top edge of the oven should be at about 155 cm.

So currently these ribbed Hyttan fronts are used - but Ekestad is also possible (they just look so light in the editor - in reality they are not quite as light). This is how it would look with Ekestad and Httarp:



For this unfortunate corner I have now planned a wall cabinet... underneath free space up to the countertop - otherwise this fits very badly with the grid because of the countertop. We are both rather shorter ~160cm. My wife does not want to swap this, as she does not want the refrigerator next to the oven (even though she has often been told that it does not matter energetically).

In the 60s next to the dishwasher? You’re right. You probably stand at the sink rather than at the stove.

Yes, exactly. That’s what I meant. I don’t know how you manage with the other drawers then, but I can only say that having the trash in a corner is pretty crap.

I also like the slightly lower tall cabinets better and I find the oak tall cabinets very nice too. (Wonder why...? )

Suggestion for the tall cabinet row from the window side:
pantry cabinet, stove, pantry cabinet, refrigerator. That way the two wouldn’t be next to each other and it would be more varied.
(By the way, this is how it looks for us: )

EDIT: I see you have done the lines differently now anyway, it looks much nicer and calmer now!

Hmm .. Wildthing wrote a possible layout and that’s how I would do it too. Because the oven will have to remain at that height, meaning there will be no arm clearance directly next to the countertop.

If you place a wall cabinet next to the tall cabinet wall, I would recess it so it’s flush with the front and choose no glass door, but oak like the tall cabinet wall. It requires a bit of construction willingness when attaching, but is much more efficient to use, especially if you are smaller.