Need a Second Look at Your IKEA Mudroom Design?

Having IKD evaluation your IKEA mudroom design can prevent time, cash, and Tylenol.

Creating a beautiful, built-in mudroom is usually a enjoyable (or no less than satisfying) weekend challenge when you have a straight ahead design and easy-to-follow directions. In any other case, it’s a headache. IKEA is a favourite retailer for DIYers since their merchandise are inexpensive, high-quality, straightforward to assemble, and hackable.

Nonetheless, putting in a customized mudroom takes greater than an thought and dedication; it takes design information. We are able to take your imaginative and prescient and aid you get the look you need whereas guaranteeing the brand new addition is structurally sound and optimized for storage.

Whether or not you don’t have anything greater than an thought and measurements, a pencil-drawn sketch on graph paper, or a design created with the IKEA cupboard planner, our skilled designers can provide you a practical, long-lasting IKEA mudroom.

Under are just some examples of the errors we’ve caught whereas reviewing DIY IKEA mudroom designs. We hope they aid you create a greater DIY mudroom design and show the worth of a re-evaluation by an IKD designer.

An IKEA storage bench seat ought to assist you.

What’s mistaken with this image? To an untrained eye, the reply could be nothing. That untrained eye would additionally find yourself with a sore backside when this bench seat inevitably collapses.

Making a bench seat utilizing SEKTION panels and IKEA counter tops is a well-recognized hack. Nonetheless, this in style IKEA hack have to be executed in a method that’s constructed to final. A buyer introduced us this concept, and we had been in a position to catch the issue instantly and supply an alternate answer.

Having two helps as a substitute of 1 permits for even weight distribution, which makes the bench seating on this mudroom design sturdier and safer. Design guidelines state that not more than 30″ of house needs to be between every assist in a design like this.

Aesthetically, the one distinction is there are three shoe cubbies as a substitute of two. This house owner additionally bought the additional advantage of a whole IKEA mudroom bundle, which incorporates an IKEA purchasing listing, challenge plan, and easy-to-follow hack directions.

Extra storage compartments in an IKEA cupboard locker means extra versatile group.

There was nothing mistaken with the structural integrity of the next IKEA mudroom design. This house owner got here up with an effective way to create an IKEA coat closet in a small house (64”W x 120”H). Nonetheless, we seen that the best way this house owner meant to divide storage may very well be improved upon to make it look extra inviting and optimize storage.

Because it stands within the unique design, these SEKTION kitchen cupboards used as an IKEA cupboard locker look so much like, properly, kitchen cupboards. We would like it to look the best way a mudroom ought to: heat and welcoming. The house owner knew one thing was missing, and we added symmetry and extra practical storage within the mudroom redesign.

As an alternative of a squat 35”W space for hanging coats on one aspect and three stacked 24”W x 30”H cupboards on the opposite, our designers devised a plan to make each side equal widths. We designed six smaller cupboards to the proper, creating two IKEA cupboard lockers as a substitute of only one. Smaller cupboards are simpler to maintain organized, as small objects like hats, gloves, scarves, and so on., are tougher to retailer and entry in giant cupboards.

Our designers additionally modified the storage above and beneath the hanging part. Open storage above the hooks and a MAXIMERA drawer beneath the bench seat add visible curiosity whereas making sensible use of the house.

Thoughts the hole; fillers are sometimes mandatory in IKEA cupboard design.

This last mistake we caught was a complete lifesaver – or no less than a challenge saver. It’s straightforward for everybody (even some IKEA in-store planners) to neglect about clearance points when designing IKEA cupboards. If in case you have a 30”W house, you’ll assume you may match a 30”W cupboard. Nonetheless, you normally want to go away room for fillers.

On the floor, in accordance with this house owner’s hand-drawn design, it seemed like this IKEA mudroom design would match. Nonetheless, as soon as we acquired all of the room’s measurements and created a diagram utilizing our skilled design software program, it grew to become obvious that one of many drawers could be unable to open.

Our answer was to incorporate a 2”W filler piece between the wall and drawer. This allowed sufficient clearance between the construction and the prevailing doorframe for the MAXIMERA drawer to open freely.

It’s a easy repair, but it surely’s one that somebody who hasn’t had coaching as a designer may miss. Might you think about spending hours searching for components, putting in this design, after which discovering it doesn’t perform?

IKD marries IKEA with customized residence design day by day.

We would like customized design to be inexpensive for the typical house owner, and that’s why we’ve labored exhausting to develop into consultants in design and all issues IKEA. IKEA presents a plethora of alternative in terms of inside residence design, as you may see from this assortment of mudroom designs.

Nonetheless, there are design points that may journey up somebody who doesn’t do that each day. Lots of our prospects come to us “to get a second set of eyes on issues” (L. Devine, IKD buyer) and for “useful design suggestions” (E. Benoit, IKD buyer).

We could be your second set of eyes, too.