Best Ideas Customizing Fronts For Ikea Kitchen Cabinets

How to design your ideal kitchen? There’s the custom route or stock cabinets. Or you can have a mixture of the two. With kitchens being so expensive, Ikea is becoming a regular go-to for designing kitchens.

There are lots of great ideas for Ikea kitchen inspiration, no matter what your design style. Whether you prefer the Scandinavian look for your kitchen or not, a kitchen system from IKEA could provide a good foundation to start with.

I’ve seen a lot of kitchens that I thought were custom that are actually Ikea. It’s definitely an option that I’m considering for the future for flexibility and variety. As well as price.

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Fronts For Ikea Kitchen Cabinets

As Ikea is known for its modular and flat pack systems, it is easy to buy a complete kitchen or just certain components. So, in comparison to what a kitchen remodel would normally cost, an Ikea kitchen is on the lower end of the budget. It could be an option for a kitchen remodel for now or further down the road.

Either way, Ikea kitchen systems are worth looking into. You can always opt to update or customize later just by using cabinet fronts, without having to totally rip out the old kitchen frame. Even with custom front cabinets using Ikea systems, it could still be a big saving next to a complete custom kitchen.

Kitchen ideas straight out of Ikea and kitchens that have used the Ikea bare bones. Whatever way you’re thinking of going, here are some great Ikea inspiration ideas for the kitchen at home you can bookmark!

Customized Ikea Kitchen Inspiration

A classic style Ikea kitchen, modern grey kitchen with a mixture of open and closed cabinets. The wood worktop helps to warm up the kitchen space. Using open shelving is always a great way of decorating the kitchen space.

An earthy colour tone palette for these sophisticated Ikea kitchen cabinets with custom fronts.

Glass fronted upper cabinets combined with shaker panelled doors below and neutral colours give this Ikea kitchen a modern edge. A country farmhouse style meets a clean, simple look. When it comes to kitchen storage, Ikea is one of the best.

This kitchen from Cate St. Hill used the Ikea Veddinge range to complete her minimal and stylish kitchen design. A friendly and functional kitchen space. The ultimate example of Scandinavian design.

The company & SHUFL designs fronts and worktops to work with the Ikea Metod kitchen and Faktum system. Underneath the all black modern kitchen, it’s all Ikea. Love the black and gold finishes, which help it seem like it’s a completely custom kitchen.

Wood front cabinets are a gorgeous option that perfectly suits the Scandinavian design. Custom Fronts have options in wood from birch, European oak, and bamboo, as well as a laminate range, all made for Ikea cabinets.

Another custom front cabinet by Semi Handmade, who provide custom hardware and countertops too. Mix different hardware pulls and knobs for the finishing touches.

Another example of black kitchen inspiration. These cabinet fronts are all from Ikea’s sustainable range called Kungsbacka, made from used plastic bottles.

Dark wood walnut-style counters and minimal style drawer fronts create this modern Ikea kitchen.

A traditional family-style Ikea kitchen in a neutral colour palette, perfect to aid in running everyday life with a family. With classic shaker-style cabinet doors and contrasting black hardware.

An oil rub finish for the wooden cabinets in this Ikea kitchen. The wood finish helps to warm up the rest of the white kitchen backdrop. These cabinet fronts are from the Danish company Det Mondaene Skur.

A beautiful small country kitchenette makeover from Our Food Stories using the Metod and Laxarby range from Ikea. Making use of the limited space by careful planning to get the most functionality from the small Ikea kitchen area.

Love the high contrast between the all black cabinets and hardware with the warm wood countertop and the white walls. Adding open shelving adds to a modern country look.

An all white kitchen design that hosts the area for a much-needed coffee station. Stacy used a white marble quartz to complete the look, using the Ikea mixed with custom drawer fronts.

A sleek and modern finish for these cabinet fronts from Superfront. With only the modern appliances on show and a touch of brass from the cabinet hardware.

A stylish modern black kitchen straight from Ikea, using the Lerhyttan range. Black kitchens have a dramatic impact on the home, giving it ultra sophistication.

Ikea Custom Front Options

If you’re ever wanting to break away from the normal Ikea kitchen, there are lots of DIY kitchen hacks you can try out yourself. Or just simple finishes like painting the cupboards and swapping out the hardware. If you’re not 100% sure about doing it yourself, then you can look up a local carpenter.

And then there are lots of companies that specialize in transforming Ikea systems that you would never know it was from Ikea. Just like some of the kitchen ideas above! Typically, the Ikea Metod kitchen is the system that companies seem to customize the most.

UK Ikea Custom Fronts

Custom Fronts is based in East Sussex but works overseas as well, offering sustainable and high-quality designs at a sensible price.
Husk, based in Bristol, makes custom fronts for not only Ikea kitchen cabinets but Howdens as well.
Plykea it’s exactly as the name implies: plywood fronts for your Ikea cabinets. More specifically, birch plywood doors with various options, including Formica-faced fronts. They are based in London but supply Europe and the United States as well.
Holte‘s high-quality products are manufactured in Hertford, in the Midlands. Holte also offers fronts and worktops for Howden’s kitchens.
Naked Kitchens makes custom cabinetry based on Ikea’s Metod range.

European Ikea Custom Fronts

& SHUFL is a Danish company that specializes in custom Ikea fronts for kitchens, closets, and wardrobes.
Bocklip is based in France and has four showrooms nationwide for custom fronts.
Det Mondaene Skur is based in Denmark for custom cabinetry on Ikea and old kitchen frames.
A.S. Helsingo has two main showrooms in Europe. One in Stockholm, Sweden, and the other in Helsinki, Finland.

US Ikea Custom Fronts

Semi Handmade has four showrooms in the United States. New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Monrovia, L.A., as well as online appointments. Bath fronts and Besta sideboard fronts are covered here, too.
Kokeena ships its custom Ikea fronts throughout the United States and Canada.
Dunsmuir Cabinets provides custom cabinetry in the US.

Worldwide Shipping Ikea Custom Fronts

Reform creates kitchen designs from varied materials like brass and simple wood front designs.
Superfront’s showroom is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and provides patterned and customized fronts for Ikea’s Metod and Faktum kitchens. As well as Ikea’s Pax closet system and even customized Besta sideboard fronts.
Koak Design is based in the Netherlands but is able to ship its custom fronts internationally.

So what do you think about Ikea kitchens? Keep it simple and classic or go for a custom upgrade? I hope this Ikea kitchen fronts inspiration helped with what could be possible for your home kitchen, for now and in the future.

Chloe

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Best Ideas Customizing Fronts For Ikea Kitchen Cabinets

Fronts For Ikea Kitchen Cabinets

Customized Ikea Kitchen Inspiration