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• Ikea kitchens maybe in regular non luxury co-ops. Ikea Kitchens consist of posterboard materials. Alot of the older apartment units come with wood cabinets already built in which is high quality. Even if the wood is old, its better than any of the Ikea stuff you can get.

  If you don’t have an existing wood cabinets in good shape then Ikea kitchen I guess could fit the bill for some non luxury units.

  I went to Ikea a long time ago for my dressers. It does the job and they are still in perfect shape.

  Posted by aj023
  on November 11th, 2007 at 2:57 am

• Did you make that Forest Hills hoodie or they had one to select from?

  Posted by yellowstone
  on November 11th, 2007 at 9:25 am

• My existing kitchen is newish, but it is solid wood, I’m told made by a carpenter who lived here two owners ago. The problem is that the frosting on the door glass is coming off, and there’s no way to pop out the glass and replace it because it’s glued in. We could just get new doors, but since the cabinets are custom, we’d probably have to get custom doors, and we’re not doing that. So Ikea it is!

  I picked the hoodie (which actually isn’t a hoodie at all; it’s one of these, and coincidentally, the girl on the left has my exact color scheme and font) off a list of neighborhoods, which is the original Neighborhoodies concept. Got it for free back when my brother was interning at Neighborhoodies.

  Posted by Steve
  on November 11th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

• When I go look at the neighborhoods it doesn’t allow you to click them….I guess I’ll email them.

  Posted by yellowstone
  on November 11th, 2007 at 12:58 pm

• which design you end up going with? show us before and after pics!

  Posted by al
  on November 11th, 2007 at 7:14 pm

• We went with Fagerland, which looks like this:

  http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo.....038;size=o

  It’s a very European country kitchen look. That sink is very similar to the one we’re getting, too. I’ll post some before-and-after photos on Flickr when it’s all done — should be about a month or so!

  Posted by Steve
  on November 11th, 2007 at 7:18 pm

• Isn’t Ikea furniture akin to disposable furniture? Haven’t heard much about kitchen cabinets though.

  Posted by jhdomster
  on November 11th, 2007 at 8:39 pm

• Here’s what I’ve found about Ikea furniture. If it’s trying to be something it’s not, forget it. But honest Ikea stuff is good. Case in point: We’ve got an Ikea bookcase that just looks like a bunch of wood hammered together, and it looks great. I’m suspicious enough about Ikea that I did extensive research on their kitchen cabinets, and reviews are largely positive. Everybody agrees they’re definitely the best you can get at that price point.

  Posted by Steve
  on November 11th, 2007 at 11:18 pm

• I love those cabinets, Steve. Very nice. (Are you getting an apron sink? I am jealous! What about a goose-neck faucet? What are you doing for a countertop? I am considering soapstone for my kitchen, but I hate that it’s so dark…)

  Posted by MaryJane
  on November 12th, 2007 at 1:01 am

• Glad you like it! I thought the cabinets were a bit of a controversial pick, but ultimately I do like them a lot and my wife absolutely loves them.

  We actually bought this faucet yesterday:

  http://www.ikea.com/us/en/cata.....s/90060551

  But then we came home and realized it was too tall to go below our cabinets. So we’ll have to return it, I’m afraid. Too bad — I love it. Whatever we get, it really has to have a hose or spray, which probably rules out most goose-neck models.

  Yes, we’re getting an apron sink! I’m very excited about this. It’s the same model as the one in the photo, only it’s narrower and single-bowl (the one in the photo is double, which would be great, but we just don’t have room for it without sacrificing lots of counter space).

  We’re not going with dark countertops, but I think those can look great, personally. We’re actually doing something pretty interesting with ours. We love the look of marble, but it’s super impractical for a kitchen. This Italian company recently became the first to figure out how to simulate marble-like veining in a quartz countertop — nobody had ever done it before. It’s called Okite. It’s very hard to find Okite, and very expensive, because it has to be imported. But! We lucked out, because DuPont just signed some sort of deal to offer Okite colors as part of its Zodiaq line. Still, it’s very new and thus hard to find, but we tracked down a company out in Suffolk County that’ll do it. Also, the Ikea saleslady from yesterday completely refused to believe that Ikea couldn’t do it, too, and though she’d never heard of it, she promised to track down the info and get back to us tomorrow. We’ll see — I have my doubts.

  Are you totally redoing your kitchen? What are you doing for cabinets?

  Posted by Steve
  on November 12th, 2007 at 1:14 am

• I went with Ikea cabinets when we remodeled our kitchen and we couldn’t be happier. The quality and the features of the cabinet match those of high end custom cabinets and the price just can’t be beat. Consumer Reports rated them very highly - I believe they came in 3rd behind high end custom cabinets.

  If you are remodeling with the idea of selling and appealing to a broad market the real estate experts say to go with all white cabinets. Even if you plan to keep the kitchen for a while going with all white cabinets is also a good idea if you ever need to buy replacements parts (door gets scratched, damaged, etc.) - the white cabinet style would probably still be available. Sometimes Ikea discontinues certain cabinet styles.

  They also have a 10 year warranty. My parents got Ikea cabinets 15 years ago and they still look brand new.

  Posted by MidVillager
  on November 12th, 2007 at 1:18 am

• You know, we did play the what-will-play-better-for-resale game, but ultimately, you’ve got to live there, too, you know?

  By the way, Ikea recently upped the warranty to 25 years. I don’t expect to be in this apartment in 25 years, but nice to see that they’re confident, I guess!

  Posted by Steve
  on November 12th, 2007 at 1:21 am

• I totally agree about getting what you want. I did the same thing. They happened to be a cream color that was discontinued :(. We also went with dark countertops - wish they would have made the marble veining in the engineered quartz countertops when we were buying. We got engineered (the way to go in my opinion), but just got a solid black. So I probably broke all the resale rules, but we love the way it looks - that’s most important.

  I think ikea’s cabinet quality is such that you will probably just grow tired of your kitchen and want to remodel before you have to do so because the cabinets are breaking down.

  Posted by MidVillager
  on November 12th, 2007 at 1:34 am

• Hi all! I just wanted to say that we recently did our kitchen using Ikea in Hicksville and LOVE it! The quality of the cabinets are wonderful and they have a guarantee. They did an excellent job installing it too! Really great craftsmanship, I was actually surprised! I can recommend the two guys that did ours. We live in a coop. We also designed our own kitchen using their software because we didn’t like what Traemand suggested. Just double check the floor plan to make sure it has the correct cabinets that you want. The hardest part was finding someone to do the tile floors and back splash because Ikea doesn’t install them. I totally recommend Luxor tiles on Woodhaven Blvd for a counter top and tiles if you live in a coop and need someone who’s insured. We bought the tiles from them but had someone else install them, the someone else who installed them was a big mistake. We should have had Luxor install them and the tile job would have turned out much better.

  Posted by Melissa
  on November 12th, 2007 at 1:50 pm

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