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 determination. 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 may 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 completed!!
This studio has been sitting right here half completed for years, and through that point, I thought of so many alternative choices for cupboards on this room. I thought of every little thing from utterly DIY to IKEA to RTA cupboards, and nearly each different choices and mixture you could possibly consider.
Early on, once I regarded 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 house that spanned the complete wall.
And the usual peak for desktops is 30 inches. The IKEA Sektion cupboards are meant to be kitchen cupboards, that are an ordinary peak of 36 inches.
I ultimately determined that I didn’t want this wall to have a protracted desk space, so I opted for storage from wall to wall. However due to the window placement (which I made up my mind 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 containers are solely 30 inches excessive. If you wish to use them as kitchen cupboards, you buy legs individually to lift the peak, after which cowl these legs with a protracted toekick piece that hides the legs. So with out the legs, the cupboards are simply very primary 30-inch-high 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 shouldn’t be solely utterly impractical, but it surely additionally seems 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 should provide you with a plan to lift the cupboards off of the ground not less than two inches. Regardless of the resolution, it must not solely add peak, but in addition give the underside of the cupboards a clear, completed, intentional look.
There are positively some drawbacks to attempting to make use of IKEA Sektion cupboards as something aside from kitchen cupboards. However there are some particular advantages as properly. I imply, I received seven base cupboards put collectively in sooner or later. Had I constructed these cupboard 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 assumed, turning my consideration away from the ground and to a totally totally different challenge did assist to deliver some readability to my flooring determination. 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 stable shade on the toilet and storage room flooring. So it’ll look one thing like this…
