IKEA Kitchen Renovation

 

The first apartment that we owned here in Sweden, was in a pretty great location. We bought it at a reasonably low price considering it's location. But it did need a few updates so we had always planned to renovate the kitchen before we sold the apartment. 

We ended up renovating the Kitchen, floors and painting walls before we sold. The kitchen project took a while to get started and we were hoping it would be done before the baby arrived. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. The marble custom counter we had ordered took time to arrive because it was from Germany. It didn't help that our baby arrived 2 weeks earlier than expected. In retrospect, we would have started the Renovation earlier but we were really happy with the final result and would choose to do another IKEA kitchen in the future.

When building an IKEA kitchen, You can choose to do-it-yourself or let the staff help you plan. Unfortunately, I had to go back several times to the IKEA kitchen department to get help from them on using the IKEA software. It was really slow at home. Even at IKEA, the software was a bit laggy.

It was nice to have the IKEA kitchen specialists to go through what we had drafted and suggest different things. I'd say they were quite helpful although you have to wait for a time. 

IKEA has opened a new Planning Studio in Gothenburg Centre! It's a small space, where you can get some help to design and ask any questions you have. 

It's great to have this central option instead of having to travel out of the city just for a fee questions.

If it had existed when we did our kitchen renovation, it would have saved some time!

If you're planning a kitchen renovation for yourself this year, look into your options and do a little research before deciding. We would choose IKEA again if we do another kitchen renovation.

Thanks for reading, and remember, don't forget your snacks!