ᐅ Ordering a Measurement Survey and Tips for Planning Your Kitchen

Hello everyone,

I’m currently planning a kitchen and am still figuring out the best approach.

I have already planned the kitchen almost completely using the kitchen planner (it’s quite straightforward since there was already a kitchen before, and I want to keep the layout the same, but I need a new one because mine is already 40 years old and even Bulthaup eventually loses its doors).

Now I would like to take advantage of the offer to have IKEA do the measurements, if it makes sense, just to be sure everything fits perfectly. What exactly do they do there? And what will I get in hand afterwards—a paper plan? Or just the measurements to enter into the planner? I wonder if I really need this, since it’s only one long wall to measure (and the connections).

On IKEA’s website, it says you can order the measurement service if you buy the kitchen through home shopping. But I don’t want to use home shopping.

My plan:
- Plan the kitchen myself (done)
- Have IKEA take the measurements and check if my planning is correct
- Take the plan to my local IKEA store to have a friendly kitchen consultant review it and possibly suggest tips or changes
- If everything is okay, then use the shopping service to order everything and have it delivered
- ... and have it installed

Am I missing something? Can I also have the measurement service even if I want to do everything at the IKEA store afterwards?

Probably this is explained somewhere and I’m just not well informed yet. I have two small kids running around here, so I can’t really spend much time reading up.

It would be great if you could help me. Or if you have any other tips to share!

Best regards,
caotina

Phew, I finally managed to reach customer support...

So I’ve already had my questions answered. So much for just online shopping. I’ll invite the specialists to take measurements, and then I can continue with the planning.
Still, I wonder if I even need that for just one row of cabinets... I can do a bit of calculating and measuring myself.
Has anyone done it and later thought they could have entered the dimensions themselves? I’m just thinking that if the installers come and something doesn’t fit, I can say: But someone from Ikea took the measurements.
Well, getting the measurements done doesn’t cost anything. Since I’ve chosen Ikea and the kitchen will be expensive enough, the cost will be deducted anyway.

Oh, one more question: ... and do I understand correctly that all appliances must already be removed from the kitchen for Ikea to take measurements? So it has to be a “raw room”? I’m planning to tear everything out, but I’d like to keep my dishwasher in the room a little longer.
So far, I’ve only marked the connections roughly, since the appliances will go in the same spots, and there’s some flexibility with wiring and plumbing.

We measured the kitchen ourselves (including the position of the built-in extractor hood, water connections, and electrical outlets), then planned it in the kitchen planner, ordered it at the store, had it delivered, and finally assembled it.

The only small issue was that we wanted to place the dishwasher in front of the water connection, which obviously didn’t fit. So we simply swapped the positions of the dishwasher and the sink.

It should also be mentioned that our kitchen was easy to measure and “work with” – a rectangular room about 5 meters (16 feet) long and 2.50 meters (8 feet) wide, with the door and window each centered on the narrow sides. This meant we planned cabinets and such just to the right and left (from the perspective of standing at the door). Since we didn’t want to fully install cabinets on both sides, precise measurements down to the last centimeter weren’t critical. Depending on the measuring method used (tape measure, measuring tape, ultrasound), we had variations that would have caused problems if we had wanted to place cabinets from wall to wall.

Therefore: If the kitchen is easy to measure and you don’t need to know every centimeter 100% accurately, it’s quite manageable to do it yourself. If it’s more complicated, the kitchen has to fit exactly from wall to wall, or goes around a corner, I would recommend having it measured professionally. As far as I know, this cost is often deducted from the purchase price.

PS: For example, we deliberately chose to have both tall and shorter upper cabinets on one wall (tall ones to the left of the range hood, shorter ones to the right) because the ceiling is sloped. It wouldn’t have looked good if the cabinets on one side started right under the ceiling and on the other side were 10cm (4 inches) below it.

This caused some confusion with the kitchen consultant, who thought it would be better to have cabinets of the same height everywhere.

Now that everything is installed, our view has been confirmed: you only notice the sloped ceiling if you really know about it and look deliberately.

Even consultants are not infallible.

Best regards,
A.

Hello Andiii_98

Huh, I don’t understand a thing.

Your ceiling is uneven. You wanted cabinets of different heights (70cm (28 inches) high on the left and 92cm (36 inches) high on the right).

IKEA builds cabinets of the same height, so it only becomes noticeable if you know about it? So the difference isn’t that obvious? Or was the planner wrong and you now have the wrong cabinets installed...

Sorry, I’m out...

So I understood it:
The ceiling is so uneven that with continuous upper cabinets of 92cm (36 inches) on one side, there would have been almost no space above, while on the other side there was already 10cm (4 inches).
Therefore, they installed only 70cm (28 inches) high cabinets on the lower side to hide this, against the advice given by IKEA.

Best regards