KnolleJupp
2016-01-05 14:28:58
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Meal time, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year belated to everyone here!
After a very long planning and construction phase, I would like to introduce you to our new kitchen. Maybe it will also serve as an inspiration for others to follow our example.
We took a lot of time and in the meantime (for almost a year now) used our small second kitchen in the basement (Ikea Faktum). Now a change is coming for us to move into the "real" kitchen and use the beautiful new things, all still fresh and undamaged.
Only a little decoration is missing and the cabinets/the room are not fully arranged yet, as we want to see what from our old, stored stuff from the old kitchen can be disposed of or should be replaced.
First, pictures of our old kitchen as it looked shortly before demolition. Clear-headed, I quickly grabbed the camera beforehand to capture it for posterity. It was about 35 years old and served us faithfully all that time. Only the electrical appliances were replaced once during that time. On the surface, it was still in good shape, but a closer look revealed its age.
And now the freshly and quickly taken pictures of the new kitchen:
As you can see, the room was completely gutted. Wooden ceiling painted white, all tiles removed, screed removed, wallpaper stripped. New screed installed, new tiles on the floor and walls, new wallpaper. All connections painstakingly relocated for hot and cold water, wastewater, electricity, ventilation, etc. New cables laid for TV. At the last moment, the power cable for the cooktop and oven was replaced with another (2.5mm² instead of previously 1.5mm²).
Of course, all electrical appliances are new, and we also chose models from Ikea. Cooktop BEJUBLAD, oven Kulinarisk, microwave SNABB, dishwasher Välgjord, refrigerator Förkyld, ventilation hood VINDRUM, countertop Personlig.
The sink and faucet are not from Ikea but from Franke. Above all, the white cooktop draws all the eyes.
So far, everything works perfectly. The assembly was also trouble-free, apart from a few really small details that were not entirely clear in the instructions.
One difficulty was, for example, correctly mounting the heavy-duty shelves (for oven, microwave, and refrigerator). For these, we could not use the position specifications in the assembly instructions and had to drill new holes between the grid in the sidewalls. Then, precisely at the height of the upper cabinets, a horizontal concealed electrical conduit runs, so improvisation skills were required for hanging the two tall cabinets or the two upper cabinets. But now they no longer fall off...
Except for laying the tiles, everything was done by ourselves.
To show why the whole thing took almost a year, here are pictures of the construction site or our second kitchen in the basement. Although it must be said that we obviously did not work intensively every day since there was no great urgency to finish quickly.
Well... that's it, I think.
After a very long planning and construction phase, I would like to introduce you to our new kitchen. Maybe it will also serve as an inspiration for others to follow our example.
We took a lot of time and in the meantime (for almost a year now) used our small second kitchen in the basement (Ikea Faktum). Now a change is coming for us to move into the "real" kitchen and use the beautiful new things, all still fresh and undamaged.
Only a little decoration is missing and the cabinets/the room are not fully arranged yet, as we want to see what from our old, stored stuff from the old kitchen can be disposed of or should be replaced.
First, pictures of our old kitchen as it looked shortly before demolition. Clear-headed, I quickly grabbed the camera beforehand to capture it for posterity. It was about 35 years old and served us faithfully all that time. Only the electrical appliances were replaced once during that time. On the surface, it was still in good shape, but a closer look revealed its age.
And now the freshly and quickly taken pictures of the new kitchen:
As you can see, the room was completely gutted. Wooden ceiling painted white, all tiles removed, screed removed, wallpaper stripped. New screed installed, new tiles on the floor and walls, new wallpaper. All connections painstakingly relocated for hot and cold water, wastewater, electricity, ventilation, etc. New cables laid for TV. At the last moment, the power cable for the cooktop and oven was replaced with another (2.5mm² instead of previously 1.5mm²).
Of course, all electrical appliances are new, and we also chose models from Ikea. Cooktop BEJUBLAD, oven Kulinarisk, microwave SNABB, dishwasher Välgjord, refrigerator Förkyld, ventilation hood VINDRUM, countertop Personlig.
The sink and faucet are not from Ikea but from Franke. Above all, the white cooktop draws all the eyes.
So far, everything works perfectly. The assembly was also trouble-free, apart from a few really small details that were not entirely clear in the instructions.
One difficulty was, for example, correctly mounting the heavy-duty shelves (for oven, microwave, and refrigerator). For these, we could not use the position specifications in the assembly instructions and had to drill new holes between the grid in the sidewalls. Then, precisely at the height of the upper cabinets, a horizontal concealed electrical conduit runs, so improvisation skills were required for hanging the two tall cabinets or the two upper cabinets. But now they no longer fall off...
Except for laying the tiles, everything was done by ourselves.
To show why the whole thing took almost a year, here are pictures of the construction site or our second kitchen in the basement. Although it must be said that we obviously did not work intensively every day since there was no great urgency to finish quickly.
Well... that's it, I think.