Kitchen Cabinets – Have You Considered Ikea Kitchens?
When you plan a kitchen remodel or upgrade, kitchen cabinets is one of the critical decisions you need to make. And kitchen cabinets can also be one of the most expensive components of your kitchen remodeling project.
You have many kitchen cabinet choices, but you can break it down to three basic approaches, with a fourth option you may not have considered.
- At the top end, you can go with completely customized cabinets. You hire a custom cabinet builder to build you tailor made cabinets from scratch. This is the most expensive category, and can easily start at $20,000 and up. With this approach, everything depends on the expertise, fine craftsman skills and experience of your cabinet builder. If you have an unusual floor or space plan, or you’re interested in some unique cabinet designs, this may be the best way to go. By the way, we have many years of experience with custom cabinetry fabrication and installation at Z.Z Daily Construction.
- Premium brand pre-manufactured cabinets from companies like KraftMaid. Premium brand cabinet manufactures can offer excellent quality, choices of materials, a variety of hardware options, and with many designs and styles to choose from. Most cabinets come in standard dimensions and sizes, so you have a little less flexibility than with custom cabinets when it comes to odd sizes and dimensions to fit your ideal kitchen plan. Kitchen cabinets in this category typically run between $10,000 and $20,000 for the average kitchen remodel.
- Budget priced kitchen cabinets from the big home improvement centers like Home Depot and Lowes. Many customers start here when shopping for cabinets, most likely because of the familiarity, and a sense that this will be the money saving choice. We generally don’t recommend the home centers for kitchen cabinets. These cabinets tend to be fairly low quality, inferior materials and construction, and poor hardware options. In the end, many folks don’t actually save that much money with the home center cabinet choices. Worse yet, you can end up stuck with kitchen cabinets that leave you dissapointed everytime you step into your kitchen, and you may have to live with this choice for years.
A fourth option, which you may not have thought about, is Ikea for kitchen cabinets. Ikea Kitchen Cabinets offer solid quality, good materials, durable construction, nice hardware upgrades and are available in many styles and designs.
And Ikea cabinets are easier on the budget, coming in at substantially lower prices than the premium brands. Sometimes as much as a 1/3 the cost.
In fact, in some cases, people have found Ikea cabinets lower in price than selections at the home improvement centers, and Ikea kitchen cabinets are definitely better quality than what you’ll find at outlets like Home Depot.
There are thousands of satisfied customers that are delighted with their Ikea choice, and we’re happy to recommend Ikea if you’re thinking about going in this direction.
One important consideration when choosing Ikea for your kitchen cabinets. Find a qualified Ikea kitchen cabinet installer. Z.Z. Daily Construction has a lot of experience installing Ikea kitchens.
If you’re looking for a skilled and qualified company out here in the Ventura, Ojai and Santa Barbara area to help you with your Ikea kitchen cabinet installation, be sure to contact us at Z.Z. Daily Construction. We’d like to help make sure your next kitchen remodel comes out a huge success!
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June 28th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
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They really offered nice services and thus I was able to make my dreams come true!
Thanks,
Angela
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June 29th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Well, to each his own, I suppose, but I do not think saving money on kitchen remodeling with either Ikea or Home Depot really saves as much as it seems to at first blush. This is especially true of Home Depot where they tend to charge as much for the installation as they do for the cabinetry! As for Ikea, really now, all they have done is manufacture those cabinets on the cheap. Then they tell one and all that they “are just as good.” And people make themselves believe that because the one thing that is undeniable is that they’re cheaper.
You get what you pay for. Always. I understand budgets. I have one myself. But if the tool I should have costs a thousand, and all I have is five hundred, I would rather just hang on to my five hundred until I have another five hundred, so I can get a good tool. That junk comes back to haunt you, in tool purchases and home remodelings.
You are in kitchens and bathrooms every day of your life. If you are going to go to the mess and expense of a remodeling, why not get the very best you can? Just my opinion, of course.
July 5th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Joseph, thanks for your passionate appeal for quality!
To clarify, we’re not really suggesting that Ikea cabinets “are just as good” as the best high-end cabinets that money can buy. We agree, you do get what you pay for. And no question, Ikea cabinets are a mass-produced manufactured product. Of course, we’d love all of our customers to move up to customized hand-made kitchen cabinets. It’s actually one of the areas we specialize in at Z.Z. Daily Construction, straight out of our shop.
Unfortunately, not everyone can afford the high-end kitchen cabinets, no matter how they manage the budget. At the lower end, we feel that Ikea delivers pretty good price/performance and often works out a bit better than the options and choices available at the big-box home centers. Especially, as you point out, when it comes to the installation (which we’re glad to help out with). And we like the improved cabinet hardware Ikea bundles.
BTW, you have a wonderful web site bringing out the distinction between man-made and factory-made. http://www.cft411.com/
Tom
Z.Z. Daily Construction
August 8th, 2009 at 2:36 am
Good post indeed! Thanks for sharing such nice information.
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