We think it might be safe to say that we’re at the garden kitchen’s halfway point. Yeah! The walls have been rearranged, layout planned and, as of last week, the IKEA cabinets are in! This is the first IKEA kitchen that we’ve put together, but luckily, there’s a good amount of knowledge floating around the internet […]

We think it might be safe to say that we’re at the garden kitchen’s halfway point. Yeah! The walls have been rearranged, layout planned and, as of last week, the IKEA cabinets are in! This is the first IKEA kitchen that we’ve put together, but luckily, there’s a good amount of knowledge floating around the internet on how seemingly simple they come together. But! Despite having landed on a floor plan that we love, a positive in-store experience during the purchase process and a relatively painless delivery, we were still a bit nervous. Maybe that’s because, until recently, this is what our IKEA kitchen looked like:

On delivery day, we had the freight company drop off all the boxes in one of the garden bedrooms. In the following weeks, we only added to the mess by stacking light fixtures, waste bins and new window treatments wherever they’d fit. Needless to say, this bedroom became a maze of cardboard chaos, and the very thought of rummaging through the piles for cabinets or doors or hinges made our heads hurt.
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