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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 determination. It’s embarrassing. After losing far an excessive amount of time attempting to decide, I lastly determined that maybe issues can 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 performed!!
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 possibly can consider.
Early on, once I seemed on the IKEA cupboards, I dominated them out for one cause. I had deliberate on this wall consisting of decrease and higher cupboards, and a desk prime work house that spanned all the wall.
And the usual peak for desktops is 30 inches. The IKEA Sektion cupboards are supposed to be kitchen cupboards, that are a normal peak 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 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 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 an extended toekick piece that hides the legs. So with out the legs, the cupboards are simply very fundamental 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 in addition, the cupboards can’t actually sit straight 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 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 provide you with a plan to lift the cupboards off of the ground a minimum of two inches. Regardless of the answer, it must not solely add peak, but in addition 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 apart from kitchen cupboards. However there are some particular advantages as nicely. I imply, I obtained seven base cupboards put collectively in at some point. Had I constructed these cupboard containers from scratch, it will 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 convey some readability to my ground 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 coloration on the lavatory and storage room flooring. So it’ll look one thing like this…
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