One tip for keeping your price down - cabinet doors and finished trim pieces are expensive. So for $2,300 we bought all the cabinets, doors, hinges, shelves, drawers, and trim pieces we needed to complete our kitchen.
We actually knocked this price down by about $700 when we decided not to use a very tall vertical cabinet that we originally planned for. Our total (including sink) was around $3,000. Once the plan was finalized (about 30 minutes) I placed my order and scheduled delivery. This guy knew what he was doing and gave me confidence about the whole process. He was also able to help me add some finishing pieces to the order that I didn’t realize I needed. He even had a few really helpful suggestions about the design, and I made some minor changes on the fly based on his input. He reviewed everything to make sure it all made sense.
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Together, the IKEA rep and I logged into the IKEA planning software to look at my plan. The list fills up quickly and people arriving around noon had to wait a while before meeting with a rep. Our IKEA Pittsburgh kitchen department uses a signup form to hold your place in line. When it comes time to meet with an IKEA rep in the store, I recommend showing up when the store first opens on a weekday. I also changed some electrical outlets to line up with our new microwave as well as prepped the plumbing to make sure the water supply and drain was positioned correctly for our new sink and cabinets. This destroyed the drywall so I ended up replacing it in order to have a fresh surface for our new tile backsplash. I removed the old cabinets, countertop, and sink. It’s funny that I’m going to boil down this step down to a few sentences. I’m glad we had someone else do all of the necessary measuring. The cost was later rebated during the purchase process.Īt first I thought this was a completely unnecessary step, but then I later learned that if something doesn’t quite fit, IKEA is more lenient with returns of open items if your kitchen was “officially” measured. It cost $99 for us to have one of their certified reps come out to our house and measure all the details of our kitchen.
Schedule IKEA kitchen measuring serviceĪfter we (kind of) knew what we wanted, we started the whole process by calling IKEA and scheduling a measuring service. In our numerous trips to IKEA, we also walked through all of the model kitchens – playing with the drawers, looking at sinks, lighting, countertops, and just getting a sense of the type of features we like. We had to keep in mind that we have a tiny kitchen so some compromises had to be made (no island or huge lighting fixtures, etc.). Browse catalog and IKEA showroomĪbby spent a lot of time pouring through every page of the IKEA kitchen catalog as well as looking at examples all over Pinterest of the type of kitchen she wanted. Installing a new kitchen is a lot of work, but it was actually easier than I thought it would be.