I’m in the midst of planning out some built-ins. When looking for inspiration, it is so annoying how many videos/blog posts, etc, on creating built-ins start with “buy IKEA cabinetry”.
If you are buying cabinets, you aren’t building cabinets. Yeah, there’s assembly involved, but watching someone buy a cabinet, and then just paint it and put different hardware on it doesn’t help me at all.
For example, I’m trying to figure out the right way to have the cabinet doors interface with adjacent window trim. I.e, do I cut the trim to fit the cabinet doors, or do I alter the cabinet doors to fit the windows trim.
The “ikea cabinet” people can’t have these choices cause it’s not possible to alter them since they are built of chipboard.
I’m in the midst of planning out some built-ins. When looking for inspiration, it is so annoying how many videos/blog posts, etc, on creating built-ins start with “buy IKEA cabinetry”.
If you are buying cabinets, you aren’t building cabinets. Yeah, there’s assembly involved, but watching someone buy a cabinet, and then just paint it and put different hardware on it doesn’t help me at all.
For example, I’m trying to figure out the right way to have the cabinet doors interface with adjacent window trim. I.e, do I cut the trim to fit the cabinet doors, or do I alter the cabinet doors to fit the windows trim.
The “ikea cabinet” people can’t have these choices cause it’s not possible to alter them since they are built of chipboard.