15 REASONS TO BUY AN IKEA KITCHEN | WATCH THIS BEFORE YOU BUY A NEW KITCHEN!

welcome to my project [Applause] [Music] hi everyone i'm joey troxell from diy project guys and today i'm going to talk about why i chose an ikea kitchen this is actually my fourth ikea kitchen i've had four different homes in the last like 15 to 20 years and each time when it was time to do a kitchen i did some comparatives i went to lowe's and home depot and some other places and each time i wound up choosing an ikea kitchen so today i'm going to give you 15 reasons why i continue to choose an ikea kitchen let's get started all right so the very first reason why i continue to choose an ikea kitchen is because i can design it myself you can go on the online kitchen planner on ikea and navigate to the planner you can create an account log in whatever and you can create your custom kitchen you put in your uh wall dimensions and it creates a room and then you just kind of drag the cabinets over from the little boxes and put them in the places you want they're already pre-determined the sizes are all there everything they have in the store is in that planner and you can just plan your entire kitchen you can see here you've got beautiful views of it you can kind of get an idea of what it's going to look like will an island fit there's measurements you can click a button here and all the drawers will open in the picture like they will uh in real life and then you can kind of see is there enough room for an island here with the drawers opening on both sides do i need to push it back so to me that's a really big feature i love the whole diy aspect of building stuff so and i love planning i'm a planner and an organizer i plan my whole life so this is a big deal to me and it allows me to take all the different options they have and you know and try them in different places the other great thing about that planner is you're when you're dragging over the pieces to create the kitchen it's doing a little tally to change and at the end of it when you're like that's my kitchen this is it total and it tells you exactly how much you're going to spend that whole tool is an amazing option for people who want to design their own kitchen reason number two all of the cabinets in the planner are a preset size every one of these cabinets is either 12 15 18 inches 21 24 30 36 they're all standard sizes that you can put together to build your kitchen for this kitchen i started with this window right here because i knew no matter what happened in this kitchen that sink needed to be under the middle of the window because i lived in another house where it wasn't lined up and it drove me crazy because i'm an organized person so i started with a sink under that window and then i worked my way out this way going this way i figured out how much space i had left before i get to this door which you can't see so i knew that the cabinets had to add up to that amount of space same thing going down that way you can see the wall i knew there was only so much space before i got to a point where i had to turn so i took their cabinets and was able to put them in on the planner exactly where they need to be this one needs to be a 12 inch i've got 32 inches here so i'm going to put a 30 inch here it all worked out really nicely because of the many different sizes they offer so the cabinets are very modular on the design and you can kind of move them where you want them to go and because of the different sizes they offer it really works out where you can get the most amount of cabinet for any space reason number three delivery is fast and easy okay so you know when you're buying a house right because i'm a real estate agent you know when you're buying a house and you're in escrow you can't buy anything your credit can't change when you're in escrow when they pull your credit for the loan approval you can't run out and get new furniture and buy a new kitchen you can't do that what you have to do is wait till you close so i closed on this house on september 12th and i was like oh i can start buying again right rant ikea i took my kitchen uh plan from the the planner logged in over there they tweaked it a little bit we hit uh print and pay uh in the store and i paid for it right there on september 12th on september which is a thursday on september 16th of monday that delivery truck was delivering my kitchen in a lot of boxes but they were delivering it and they brought it right into my house the house was empty and threw it right in my living room and stacked it all up for me and i didn't have to like drag it out of the garage every time i wanted a box to open up that was quick and easy and the delivery was a it was a hundred and twenty dollars or something i loved that i didn't have to wait weeks and you know as you know like i said you can't buy anything so after you close so you know if you're ordering it from a custom cabinet place and you can't buy it after you've closed on your house you know september 12th from closing i'm making the order for the cabinets like at you know cabinet craft or home depot or something it could take months before those cabinets get delivered and that's crazy because i want to move into the house right but i don't want to move in and then rip the kitchen apart i want to get that done before i actually move in so the ikea timeline for delivery allowed me to to redo this kitchen before i moved in because it was such quick delivery i absolutely loved it reason number four the cabinets are strong i know they're particle board people gonna be like oh that ikea crap it's all particle board it's not you know it's not gonna stand up again this is my fourth ikea kitchen these cabinets are strong i can stand on these cabinets i have to replace a light bulb or you know read something in the top cabinet because i'm not very tall i can climb on these cabinets on top of the counter and stand right on them and there's no problem they're not going to buckle they're not going to shake they're not going to move the cabinets are absolutely strong they're three-quarter inch walls all the way around you know that whole thing about the cabinets not being strong enough that's just silly again fourth ikea kitchen never had a problem with that reason number five they're designed for the diy installer i mean they're made for you to do these yourself the cabinets are just like that they go together fast they hang fast they're just made for the home diy if you're thinking about buying ikea cabinets and having someone install them you know that kind of defeats the whole purpose of what they've set up for you to save the money to do yourself these cabinets like i said sixty one hundred dollars it would have been another five or six thousand dollars for someone to assemble them and install them that would have defeated the purpose of me saving all that money now of course not everyone can do that as i'm getting older i'm almost 60 years old now i'm at the point where i don't know that i have many kitchens left in me right time may be an issue your age may be an issue i get it right but if that's not an issue do it yourself look up some videos it's not that hard to do and if you need help you can always call someone if you mess it up and have them fix it contractors will love to come in and fix things and tell you how you did it wrong reason number six that i continue to choose my ikea kitchen is the rail system the rail system is amazing the cabinets are on the wall because of the rail system you hang the rail on the wall at a level you know make sure it's level but the rail system allows you to connect the cabinets and just slide them on without having to worry about leveling them so for the upper cabinets for instance you hang that rail up if that rail is level your cabinets just click on and obviously you have to put the rail and studs but the cabinets just click on and slide over until they're all connected and then you just kind of screw them together but that rail if that rail is level all your cabinets are level you don't ever have to worry about having a ledger underneath or trying to figure out if they're going like this the rails level the cabinets are level it's a beautiful idea for cabinet insulation and i mean they've had that for 15 to 20 years i've been installing the ikea kitchens now it's probably not unique anymore but when in its day it was just like it was the best thing so i continue to choose ikea kitchen because i love the ease of getting the cabinets on right the first time so reason number seven the organization the organization is amazing i mean like i said i'm an organized person you can see here everything here is organized there's a place for everything i've got all my spoons and knives and forks and chopsticks and other stuff and toothpicks i mean it's all just separated and in little compartments i mean who doesn't like that even for the knives i've got a place to put steak knives all my little openers there i've got a pair of scissors for the kitchen a knife sharpener this drawer is well organized and if i need something it's easy to find the organization they offer for the interiors of their drawers is just amazing now that's not part of the the cabinet price but they're very inexpensive and depending on your different size drawers they always they offer organization for all the different sizes those little pieces in there for the knives and all that those are just pieces they all fit together to take up an 18-inch drawer that's an extra piece to take up a 21 inch sure or you can buy another piece for a 24-inch drawer and it all kind of works for whatever size drawers they have so i love organization i love their organization and i love to be organized so the ikea kitchen works perfect for me all right reason number eight so this is a big one the upper cabinets are 15 inches deep now that's pretty important because when i got estimates for this kitchen the cabinets here were 6 100 the exact same cabinets at lowe's and home depot these are their entry model shaker style cabinets for 15-inch uppers with 13 or fourteen thousand dollars fourteen thousand three hundred or whatever it was one was thirteen was fourteen and it was for the same type of particle board cabinets that wasn't for their wood cabinets um in home depot and lowe's they offer a standard 12-inch upper cabinet and if you want 15 that's an upgrade for ikea the section cabinets which is what these are those are standard 15-inch uppers they don't come in 12. and it's important because my plates are 12 inches and when i go to put those in a 12-inch cabinet the door won't close uh the the plates are too big so i i mean what am i going to do with that so i've got these 12-inch plates that i can't put in the upper cabinets i mean that's pretty frustrating so with an ikea kitchen you know that's you don't have to worry about that i mean who has 15 inch plates right that would be like a platter size so 15 inch upper standard with ikea and that is an upgrade in many of the other places that you go to all right reason number nine all of the cabinets come standard with soft clothes you can see here if i open the drawer right and then i just push it close it'll close by itself that's it very simple you don't have to pay extra to have all the drawers closed with a soft clothes again that's an upgrade on uh lowe's and home depot so i like that that's already done for you and that's on every cabinet the doors to all of them they're all standard with soft clothes all right reason number 10 there are plenty of options for drawers and doors the way the cabinets works are they're just boxes right they're boxes built and they're all white and then the fronts the drawers the panels and all that those are your selections you're no matter what you get as far as as far as section you're just getting white boxes inside then if you want like you know a kind of rustic look you can get wood fronts if you want kind of a contemporary look you can get this white or some of their different colors they have the greens and the reds so there's something for everyone and let's say that you're you've got this kitchen it's all white and it's beautiful and let's say that your home is a 500 000 home right so you've got this kitchen a buyer comes in and goes i love this house i love the design of the kitchen but i hate the white i had it in my last kitchen i don't want it again really simple you can go to ikea and go here's my kitchen i want to change all the fronts uh and this and the side panels how much does that cost and they'll give you a price for that eighteen hundred dollars for this kitchen maybe two thousand dollars to change all the fronts right you've got a five hundred thousand dollar home you can say to the buyer hey listen i'll give you a two thousand dollar credit 1800 credit uh when we close you can go to ikea get all new fronts and have them put it in or you can even do it yourself right before you close and now the buyer's got the kitchen they want without having to pull anything out we just change the fronts so i love all the options this is my second white kitchen i like the white because i like to know that it's clean and if there's anything on there i can see it again because i'm organized so i need to know that there's dirt on here so i could clean it because i have a family they don't clean up after themselves so for me white just represents cleanliness but they've got so many options no matter what your style they're definitely going to have something that you like reason 11 i continue to choose ikea kitchens is the lighting they have amazing under cabinet lighting amazing in-drawer lighting options they've got really nice lighting options for inside the upper cabinets you can see here i've got this one cabinet where all my glass work is so i've got that cabinet lit up because you know when that cabinet's closed and the glasses are in there it absolutely looks really nice and i want to show that off the shelves of glass in that cabinet so when the light shines down from the top which is where the lighting is it shines down all the way through because all the shelves are glass so great options when you open the drawers you can have in-drawer lighting i didn't feel like i needed indoor lighting but you know some husbands or wives may decide that's what they want they want to open their cabinets and see everything lit up that's there's always something for someone but they have great lighting options the under cabinet lighting is nice because it works with uh i don't want to say her name the amazon assistant all of the lighting does so when i walk in this room i just say her name and i go kitchen lights and all the lights come on the under cabinet lighting the overhead lighting all of it so the lighting options for me really are a great selling feature all right reason number 12 they have an amazing return policy you can return anything for a year and sometimes i need that because i need to live with something before i realize you know this isn't what i want i can't always look at something on paper and go that'll work for me like i do do that and then a month later i'm like this isn't what i wanted why did i buy this so for instance you get here and you decide like that glass cabinet you know what i don't want that glass door it shows the dust on my on my glass glassware i don't want that i want a regular door on that right or maybe one of these doors i don't want a solid door surrounding the hood i want glass doors no problem take the door off bring it to ikea even with the the drill holes for the you know the handle on it bring it ikea they're taking it back with the receipt ever since covered with the receipt you have a one-year return policy even if you brought a cabinet here right let's say you don't have your counters on yet because you can't you're not going to change cabinets once your counters are on but let's say you don't have your counters on and you check you build the cabinets and then decide you know what instead of an 18 cabinet here i want a 21 inch right okay i've already built it i took it out of the box i've thrown the box away the cabinet's built what do i do now right take it back to ikea assemble just the way it is they'll take it back for a year with the receipt and give your money back no questions asked reason number 13 they have a 25 year warranty on this cabinets people like oh it's particle board it's cheap crap blah blah blah it's a 25-year warranty on these things that's pretty impressive that's the same thing that the big manufacturers offer so you're not getting anything less as far as warranty goes for the cabinets if something goes wrong with one of these cabinets i'm going to take it out i'll bring it ikea i'm going to tell them i want another one and they'll just look up your information online your account if you ordered the the kitchen from them which of course you would have had to they'll have all that information and there's going to be no problem 25-year warranty is on all the section cabinets reason number 14. i talked a little bit about this earlier it's really easy to get replacement parts if for some reason you need a replacement part you've got a you know a rental and one of the tenants damaged one of the drawers you just bring it back they'll replace it if it's after a year and you don't have the receipt you'll have to pay for the new piece but you can still get another piece immediately bring it home and put it on it's not like you have to order something from the factory and it's going to take months to get right quick easy replacement of parts if you need to change something out so to me that's a big feature all right so the 15th and final reason why i continue to choose an ikea kitchen to me this is the biggest one is it's affordable you can design a kitchen in a really small space or a really big space but however it is whatever you do it's very affordable i keep saying the price of this the cabinets in this space i've said it already were sixty one hundred dollars and i mentioned this earlier lowe's in home depot with thirteen thousand and fourteen thousand three hundred for the exact same floor plan and for identical cabinets they were a different brand but shaker style white cabinets fifteen inch uppers soft clothes all of that was double or more of the price for home depot and lowe's and i still had to install it myself so this is very affordable if you do it yourself i saved a ton of money on this kitchen and on the last four kitchens and i love that about them i'm a cheap guy and if i can do it myself and save a few bucks i'm gonna do it all right everyone what did you think did i talk to you what to do in your own ikea kitchen this happens sometimes where i'll post something where i did it myself and people will be like all right thank you for this you talked to me out of doing it myself and i totally understand that like we're not all in the same place if you're thinking about a new kitchen and you have even a hint of some diy skills and a few tools i really recommend you giving this a try i mean you have nothing to lose at the very end if you can't do it yourself you can just call someone and do it anyway all right folks i hope you got some value out of this if you did hit that like button show us some love if you haven't subscribed yet click on that subscribe button click that bell and you'll get notified every time we have a new video usually on wednesdays and please leave a comment below have you built an ikea kitchen i love my ikea kitchen i've loved every ikea kitchen i've ever built uh what are your thoughts on it or you just feel like they're crap and it's not something you put in your your home if you do feel like that let me know if you you've built one and decided they're crap or if you've heard their crap and you've never built one before but you're not putting in your home because i really feel like people who say that and haven't uh experienced living with one really are just taking the the you know the information from people who who are just saying that and really don't they have they just don't know you really kind of have to experience one live with one to really understand that it's a really nice product and it's something you can easily recommend alright until next time if you want something done right do it yourself you

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