ikea kitchens

rev229

I am probably going to buy an Ikea kitchen any advise before I make my final decision also any discount if I sign up for an Ikea store card.

jennifernil

Usually if you get their card they give you £10 of vouchers for every £100 of your first spend. These have to be used within 3 months.
If possible I would choose a door they have in the store to take away, that way you know exactly what you have or have not got. They may not have all the stuff in stock, so you will have to get the rest another day.
If you are going for the beech block tops don't use their wood treatment, get Junkers or Danish Rustic Oil instead, much better finish.

But I told you most of this already, just realised!!!

nlpnlp

I have an IKEA kitchen. One big problem I had was that the base units had no space for any water pipes/waste pipes to run behind them. Therefore, if you do have these you will need to cut out holes in the back of cupboards and move the back panel forwards or batten out the wall to push the cupboards forward to create space for the pipes.

Also the quality of the pine wood doors we have are poor. They are just held together by a couple of dowels. We found that the vegetable cupboard door kept splitting because of the moisture the vegetables were giving out. We changed doors 3 times, reglued etc but to no avail. In the end we moved the vegetables out of the cupboards.

They look ok and the carcasses are fairly well made for the price, but I wished I had got a Wickes kitchen.