The One Factor I might Do Otherwise If I Had been Beginning Our Home Transform Right this moment

I completely love DIYing and constructing issues myself. And I take nice delight in with the ability to envision one thing like a chunk of furnishings, after which take it from idea to completion with my very own two fingers and some instruments.

…after which I constructed the factor from scratch. I used to be so pleased with the way it turned out!

I constructed that again in 2018, and it’s nonetheless in our entryway at present. I did give it a little bit makeover a few years in the past, so it seems to be a little bit totally different at present.

In order that’s the type of factor I discover an excessive amount of satisfaction in spending my time constructing. However there are different issues that I’ve spent my time on through the years that I look again on and suppose, “Why?” Trying again, it doesn’t appear to be there was any actual profit to constructing it myself from scratch aside from bragging rights. However now, I want I had forgone the bragging rights and simply made issues sooner and simpler on myself.

What am I speaking about particularly? Cupboards! If I might begin originally of our home transform at present, the one main distinction can be my strategy to all (or most) of the cupboards in our home. Particularly, I’d use IKEA cupboards.

I’ve made no secret of the truth that I’m now an enormous fan of IKEA cupboards. I had by no means had any expertise with them in any respect till I started engaged on my studio, so I’m a latest convert. 😀 However after I put in them on the lengthy 20-foot mural wall within the studio, I grew to become an immediate fan.

They’re simple to place collectively, and so they operate very effectively. All the doorways and drawers are comfortable shut, and there are such a lot of customization choices accessible that I’ve solely simply begun to delve into. Additionally, the entire doorways and drawer fronts are three-way adjustable (in/out, left/proper, up/down) as a way to get the spacing excellent.

It’s not that I’m sad with my DIY cupboards. My pantry cupboards are simply wonderful. However I look again at the entire time I spent constructing my pantry cupboards from scratch, and whereas they turned out good, I might have saved a lot time and frustration by utilizing IKEA cupboards.

And I’ve to confess that there’s a part of me that needs I might provide you with a very good excuse for why I have to tear out these pantry cupboards and redo with IKEA cupboards. 😀 Up to now, I haven’t considered a great excuse, and I extremely doubt that I can provide you with one aside from, “I would like…“. And that’s probably not a great excuse for tearing out completely good and practical cupboards. I’m okay with that. I actually am happy with my pantry cupboards.

I simply actually like consistency. And understanding that I in all probability will in the future comparatively quickly have a brand new IKEA kitchen, I do lengthy for that consistency into the pantry. However once more, I extremely doubt that that may ever occur. I simply can’t justify the associated fee…and the waste it could produce.

We’ve already talked in regards to the kitchen, and particularly how inefficient and mainly unusable the higher cupboards are on this wall.

I received’t really feel any guilt in any respect eradicating the cheap inventory utility cupboards that I used to rework our kitchen 10 years in the past (as a result of that’s actually all we might afford on the time), and changing them with new IKEA cupboards. I’ll discover a good residence for these cupboards. Another person can put them to good use, and I’ll exchange them with practical IKEA cupboards that may truly maintain a dinner plate, and hopefully a complete lot extra! 😀

However have you learnt the place else I want I had used IKEA as a substitute of constructing from scratch? The closets in our visitor bed room (which is our predominant bed room for now).

I’d guess cash that if I went again and browse feedback on posts I wrote about planning these closets, I’d discover not less than a number of feedback from folks suggesting that I take advantage of IKEA Pax wardrobes as a substitute of constructing from scratch. However again then, I used to be nonetheless turning my nostril up at something IKEA. I simply hadn’t had any expertise with IKEA merchandise (past our butcherblock counter tops within the rental kitchen), so I simply couldn’t think about that such mass-produced cupboards or wardrobes might be value having in our home.

So I did what I do, and I constructed the closets from scratch. I put the doorways on a observe to slip open to the aspect quite than open on hinges. It was a enjoyable construct. I loved the method, and I realized some issues alongside the way in which.

However as soon as once more, now that I’ve my very own private expertise with IKEA cupboards and I understand how a lot I really like them, I look again in hindsight and want that I had saved myself the effort and time of constructing from scratch, and had gone with the IKEA Pax wardrobes.

Each time I see one other individual reveal their new Pax closet, I need to place an order and swap out these DIY closets for Pax wardrobes. And once more, it’s not that there’s something inherently improper with the DIY closets, however the attainable customizations accessible with the Pax wardrobes make them so user-friendly and superb.

Whereas I’ll in all probability by no means get my IKEA pantry (which, once more, is completely wonderful as a result of I’m content material with what I’ve), I actually have began contemplating the potential of swapping out the visitor bed room closets for IKEA Pax wardrobes. And, in fact, our new bed room may have a whole wall of Pax wardrobes on the wall shared with the toilet. I’m so enthusiastic about customizing all of that space for storing.

So that basically is the one large factor I’d change if I had been beginning this residence transform at present. I’d go together with IKEA cupboards and wardrobes at each alternative. By no means thoughts constructing from scratch when IKEA makes it really easy! It’s humorous to me how I went from turning my nostril up on the point out of IKEA to utterly loving IKEA cupboards a lot that I’ll very willingly inform anybody and everybody about them, and I’ll achieve this with out anybody paying me. I want I had taken an opportunity with them 10 years in the past!

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.