We regularly advocate Ikea’s kitchen cupboards as a stable, bang-for-the-buck possibility for these seeking to rework. And these days, there are such a lot of offshoot firms providing cupboard entrance kinds particularly tailor-made to suit Ikea’s base cupboards that, if being economical is a precedence, there’s little purpose to not no less than begin with an Ikea skeleton. (See Ikea Kitchen Improve: 11 Customized Cupboard Firms for the Final Kitchen Hack.)
Which is what we assumed this expensive-looking kitchen from architects Luke and Joanne McClelland was: a skeleton base by Ikea, upgraded with doorways from one other firm. Seems the entire thing is a mixture of Ikea elements!
The 2, each architects (he has his personal agency, Luke McClelland Design), usually work on high-end initiatives, however for their very own kitchen rework in Edinburgh, Scotland, they needed to work with a price range that was a tenth of what they’re used to. Their resolution: “We tried to make use of inexpensive merchandise to recreate the precise qualities that earlier shoppers related to luxurious: simplicity, symmetry, integration.”
Right here’s how they overhauled their kitchen for below $13,000, together with home equipment (however not together with labor).
Images by Zac and Zac, courtesy of Luke McClelland Design.
