I received’t even share with you ways a lot time I spent yesterday in my studio simply standing and staring and pondering the ground design resolution. It’s embarrassing. After losing far an excessive amount of time attempting to decide, I lastly determined that maybe issues could be a lot clearer if I might see some cupboards in place. So I spent the remainder of the afternoon and night placing collectively the bottom cupboards for the lengthy entrance wall. The wall is clearly removed from completed, however simply seeing this small quantity of progress makes me so excited to get it achieved!!
This studio has been sitting right here half completed for years, and through that point, I thought-about so many alternative choices for cupboards on this room. I thought-about all the pieces from utterly DIY to IKEA to RTA cupboards, and nearly each different choices and mixture you can consider.
Early on, once I appeared on the IKEA cupboards, I dominated them out for one motive. I had deliberate on this wall consisting of decrease and higher cupboards, and a desk prime work area that spanned your complete wall.
And the usual top for desktops is 30 inches. The IKEA Sektion cupboards are meant to be kitchen cupboards, that are an ordinary top of 36 inches.
I finally determined that I didn’t want this wall to have an extended desk space, so I opted for storage from wall to wall. However due to the window placement (which I decided particularly primarily based on a 30-inch-high wall-to-wall desktop), I’m nonetheless restricted in what I can put right here, and 36-inch-high kitchen cupboards received’t match.
However the beauty of IKEA cupboards is that the precise cupboard packing containers are solely 30 inches excessive. If you wish to use them as kitchen cupboards, you buy legs individually to boost the peak, after which cowl these legs with an extended toekick piece that hides the legs. So with out the legs, the cupboards are simply very fundamental 30-inch-high packing containers.
They nonetheless received’t work for the standard 30-inch-high desktop since you’d nonetheless have so as to add a countertop, which provides a minimal of three/4-inch to the peak. But additionally, the cupboards can’t actually sit immediately on the ground like this as a result of the doorways and drawers cowl the sides of the cupboard body, and having a door or drawer entrance that near the ground will not be solely utterly impractical, nevertheless it additionally appears to be like unusual.
So whereas I don’t have to make use of the IKEA legs that add a number of inches to the peak, I do need to give you a plan to boost the cupboards off of the ground at the least two inches. Regardless of the answer, it must not solely add top, but additionally give the underside of the cupboards a clear, completed, intentional look.
There are undoubtedly some drawbacks to attempting to make use of IKEA Sektion cupboards as something aside from kitchen cupboards. However there are some particular advantages as nicely. I imply, I acquired seven base cupboards put collectively in someday. Had I constructed these cupboard packing containers from scratch, it might have taken me a number of afternoons and evenings to make this a lot progress. In order that’s an enormous plus for utilizing IKEA cupboards!
And simply as I believed, turning my consideration away from the ground and to a totally totally different challenge did assist to carry some readability to my ground resolution. I’ve determined mix a few the concepts from yesterday and go borderless in the principle a part of the room, whereas including a border to the again entry, and utilizing a strong shade on the toilet and storage room flooring. So it’ll look one thing like this…
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