Questions before assembling the Ikea Metod kitchen

Hello everyone,

before I start assembling the new kitchen, I wanted to quickly ask for advice here.

So I have already planned the kitchen in the kitchen planner and have already carried the parts home.
The kitchen side is 275 cm wide, and I have planned the following base cabinets.

Base cabinets from left to right:
40 cm / 60 cm (oven/stove) 40 cm / 60 cm (dishwasher) / 60 cm (sink)
For the dishwasher, I am leaning towards the Siemens SX76P030EU, which supposedly causes no problems during installation.

I am flexible regarding the stove/oven combination, so if anyone has recommendations up to 600 EUR, I would be grateful.



It is probably somewhat impractical that the sink will be on the very edge, but I couldn’t solve it differently.
I found it more important to have enough space next to the stove for working. (1 m through 40 cm base cabinet 60 cm base cabinet for dishwasher

I have decided on the following sink:

AMMERÅN
Inset sink 1 bowl, stainless steel

Am I correct in assuming that this goes directly on the base cabinet without a countertop? Because then I would manage with one measuring 246 cm in length.

I am a bit surprised that the kitchen planner only adds 2x METOD legs to the item list, even though there are 5 base cabinets in total. Shouldn’t I need 5x legs here?

Hello,

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Yes, the sink rests directly on the cabinet body.

You have 4 cabinets, so correspondingly many legs. The dishwasher stands alone.

I recommend a standalone induction cooktop and a (almost) free used stove/oven from a classified ad. You can replace it with a new one when more money is available again.

Thank you very much for your answer.

So I guess I have to buy 2 more sets of legs tomorrow, I had already thought so.
You are of course right about the dishwasher, it already has legs ;)

What is the advantage of autonomous cooktops/ovens compared to combination appliances.

My countertop is only 2.8 cm thick, won't I have problems with some cooktops because of that?

You can have problems with the distance to the oven. You have to follow the manufacturer’s instructions for the devices.

Built-in appliances have several advantages:
1) You don’t have to buy both at the same time if money is tight.
2) You can possibly install them separately in the next kitchen, for example the oven elevated in the tall cabinet.
3) If the cooktop or the oven breaks, you don’t have to replace both appliances.

You can only use two legs per cabinet if the cabinets are mounted with the wall rail. Additional legs do not harm either.

The more legs you have, the harder it becomes to adjust the entire length. It is easier to hang the cabinets on the wall using the mounting rail, then turn the legs out accordingly. You can use 6 legs for 2 cabinets standing next to each other. So on the outside 2 each and in the middle the two cabinets share 2 legs. The holes are drilled so that you have separate legs for each cabinet, or you can insert the legs so that 2 cabinets share 2 legs at the touching side (1 at the back/front each). According to my husband, this is the easiest way to get everything nicely "level" (to make it straight). The fewer legs, the less to adjust. (only with the mounting rail)

Look in the instruction for the legs, then you will understand why fewer legs are sufficient. I especially recommend beginners to connect two corpuses with one leg, as they are then perfectly aligned at the same height. The wall bracket anyway.