“Home idea with IKEA”: small yet noticeable kitchen

They say the kitchen is the heart of your home. And for this week's heroines it seems to hold true. Dija and her daughter Toma from Vilnius view their kitchen as more than just a place to cook. It's where they relax, chat, invite friends over and spend most of their free time. Despite the multifunctional role, the family is not entirely happy with the current state of their kitchen space. Interior designer Asta showed up to help them renew.

Before the renovation

The 9-square-metre kitchen had a lack of storage space, with many items stored on open shelves, inside glass door cabinets, on top on top of them or on the worktop. As a result, there was a constant feeling of clutter in the room. There was no dishwasher in the kitchen, which made the chores less pleasant. The only thing the family wanted to keep was the fridge in bright red colour.

Interior designer‘s task

• To make the family's life easier by finding space for a dishwasher in the small kitchen.
• To add more drawers so that every item can find its place and the space is uncluttered. 
• To make the room cosier to spend time in every day. 
• To fulfil Dija's wish for bright accents and colour contrasts in the kitchen.

More colour, space and comfort

The right furniture helped to enlarge the small kitchen. By combining METOD kitchen cabinet frames, it‘s easy to design a kitchen in exactly the size and shape one needs. Our interior designer decided to move the family's old fridge to another wall and fill the remaining space up to the ceiling with cabinets and drawers of different depths. She deliberately chose different colours for the fronts of the upper and lower cabinets: the white VEDDINGE fronts in and the black NICKEBO ones look extra modern and, together with the red accents, create the contrast desired by the owners of this kitchen. The fronts also serve to hide some new appliances: the oven, the extractor hood and the dishwasher.

METOD kitchen system is covered under a 25-year guarantee, while kitchen appliances are covered under a 5-year guarantee.
 

Three levels of storage

It is common to have two rows of cabinets in the kitchen. But after installing the drawer units on the floor and hanging a few more cabinets above the worktop, we realised that there was room for a third row right under the ceiling. This is the perfect place for cookware and kitchen utensils that are needed less often.

In the absence of electrical outlets in this kitchen, we employed smart solutions to install lighting above the kitchen cabinets and dining table.

 

 

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