Building A Kitchen Island With Ikea Cabinets

This super simple ikea hack diy rolling kitchen island is ideal to save some space you can use this little piece for everything.

Building a kitchen island with ikea cabinets.

Before we began this project. A repurposed wood top and shiplap sides completes the cabinet with farmhouse style. Creating an ikea kitchen island specs. If you are new here and want to start from the very beginning of the ikea kitchen series start here.

When not in use it rolls perfectly over the top of the barstools and blends in with the white kitchen cabinets. Today is all about the custom ikea island. Based on our kitchen measurements we have space to accommodate a 7 x 3 island. We wanted a very specific island so we designed one ourselves and made it happen.

This was very important to me to include the custom woodwork and create an island that looked more like a furniture piece and to also incorporate the design elements that are throughout the house. I planned to use ikea cabinets because it worked so well with the office standing desk we built. The cabinet is the middle has a 5 drawer on the top and a 10 drawer on the bottom with a shelf just above the bottom drawer. The microwave is about 21 wide x 12 tall x 16 deep and it s an lg from best buy.

If you have any questions about our ikea kitchen leave us a comment on any of the ikea kitchen posts. Cooking eating even working. On each side of the cabinets we attached 3 4 mdf to build our custom wainscoting and pull the cabinet space together. Ikea base cabinets come with adjustable plastic legs which are great if you have uneven floors.

Add some colorful bar stools and vola a gorgeous piece is ready. Those can be nice for a lot of reasons but i knew i d be happier if we erected an island in the middle and rounded everything out to make it feel like one big kitchen and not a partial kitchen and then something else combo. The island is 3 24 wide ikea base cabinets.