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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 making an attempt 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 executed!!
This studio has been sitting right here half completed for years, and through that point, I thought-about so many various choices for cupboards on this room. I thought-about every thing from utterly DIY to IKEA to RTA cupboards, and nearly each different choices and mixture you may consider.
Early on, once I seemed on the IKEA cupboards, I dominated them out for one purpose. 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 a normal peak of 36 inches.
I finally 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 wonderful thing about IKEA cupboards is that the precise cupboard bins 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 a protracted toekick piece that hides the legs. So with out the legs, the cupboards are simply very primary 30-inch-high bins.
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 in addition, the cupboards can’t actually sit straight on the ground like this as a result of the doorways and drawers cowl the perimeters of the cupboard body, and having a door or drawer entrance that near the ground isn’t solely utterly impractical, nevertheless it additionally seems to be 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 must give you a plan to boost the cupboards off of the ground at the very least two inches. Regardless of the answer, it must not solely add peak, but additionally give the underside of the cupboards a clear, completed, intentional look.
There are positively some drawbacks to making an attempt to make use of IKEA Sektion cupboards as something apart from kitchen cupboards. However there are some particular advantages as properly. I imply, I received seven base cupboards put collectively in at some point. Had I constructed these cupboard bins from scratch, it could 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 undertaking did assist to carry some readability to my flooring resolution. I’ve determined mix a few the concepts from yesterday and go borderless in the primary 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…
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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You’ll be able to study extra about me right here.
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