IKEA Kitchen Planner Tutorial | A guide to designing an IKEA Kitchen
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The IKEA kitchen planner tool is a fabulous free design tool that is available for everyone. Even if you want to experiment with different layout options for your kitchen, this is the best place to try them out.
Follow along as I teach you how to use the IKEA kitchen planning tool to design your next beautiful kitchen!
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Great video, Mark! Thanks for this.
Super helpful! Thanks!
I used Ikea kitchen planner to plan the reno in my prior condo and again now at my new to me 70yr old home... lovely tool for a DIY planner like me...some quirks but it works well especially to visualize things...the cabinet store kitchen designer had to adjust to match their cabinets but its a great place to start for me as the end user...
This is a much better tool than the one I had been working with. And---it's FREE! WOW! Thanks for sharing this great helpful information.
Thanks for this! I’ve been playing around with the designer, but having trouble figuring things out. It’s not really user friendly on an iPad with a finger instead of a mouse.
Your channel has been a godsend for us about to renovate a 3500 sf home!! 👏🙏
Hey thanks. All the best with the reno.
Omg this is amazing. thank you so much!! The girl at ikea did it so fast that i was not able to follow her haha but this was helpful :)
Awesome. Glad it was helpful.
This application is home by home, it’s practical
Hey Mark! You know those base cabinet stand mixer lifts - the ones where your huge stand mixer sits on a “tray” inside a base cabinet and it rises up and out of the cabinet on a counter-balanced spring mechanism so the mixer can be used at counter height? Wouldn’t it be cool to have a coffee station on the same kind of mechanism except that rather than taking up the entire base cabinet it pulled out from about the height of a base cabinet’s center shelf and then rose up (that way you could still store things in the bottom half of the base cabinet under the coffee station’s shelf). Have you ever seen a product that could do this, or would it have to be a DIY thing? Having something like this means that the coffee station isn't sitting on the countertop taking up a lot of real estate.
Also, you’ve done a lot of videos on base corner cabinet mechanisms that pull out and upper cabinet mechanisms that pull down but I don’t think you’ve covered mechanisms that can be operated (or activated) by using your foot or knee to open the base cabinet drawer or door - things like the Blum Servo Drive. Why not do a video on the types of products or mechanisms people can use to open a cabinet if their hands are full?
THANK YOU!!
Thanks Mark! How do you select several cabinets at once? If you're building an island as an example, and want to move the entire thing throughout the planner.
This is one of the things I wish they would add as a feature. Doesn't seem possible to select multiple cabinets at once, or group items.
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Great video, Mark. How do I print the layout of my kitchen including all measurements (walls and cabinets like a blueprint) for my contractor? Thanks.
There is an option to print the elevation views and floor plan. Hit continue in the right top corner and you'll see the print icon. You can do it all from there.
@@MTKDofficial Great. Thanks.
Once I print it in this floor plan view, will the architect me able to a lot space for the kitchen within our home build blueprints? (We are designing our home and I am set in an ikea kitchen).
Hi Mark, I'm loving your videos! Tell me if I missed this in some video, but how do you use the planner to design the corner of a peninsula, where the corner cabinet opens to the room on the other side of the peninsula (this would be instead of a blind corner). For example if a peninsula divides the kitchen from the living room, and I want some drawers to open on the living room side, how would I do this in the planner, and what pieces would I need for the installation?
I haven't covered this, but I definitely should. I've been thinking about updating a video like this. Thanks for the suggestion. You can manually rotate cabinets on the floor plan, but it has limitations. Plus there are some things that need to be considered when installing this type of solution that you can't customize with the IKEA planner.
@@MTKDofficial looking forward to it. FYI, I also ran into trouble trying to design a peninsula with back to back cabinets. For example if you want to put a cooktop in the peninsula (just theoretical), you need it to be deeper than just 60cm. The planner would just not allow me place a cabinet back to back neither with a lazy susan nor with a blind corner. It left an empty space! However, I could place cabinets back to back with the rest of the run of the peninsula.
Is there option to raise the dishwasher to 10 to 12" higher? HAVE to have raised DW!
For sure. This is done all the time.
Great video. You prevented me from making some mistakes. One issue I can't resolve, when I click the question mark (the help center) on the top right hand side of the kitchen planner, I keep getting this warning: "The minimum distance between a cutout and the end of the countertop is 3 7/8". All I did was add a cabinet with a sink. I didn't choose the sink placement within the cabinet. That's preset by the tool. If I place cabinets on both sides of the sink with or without a gap (that the tool fills in with a spacer when there is a gap) the warning remains. Nothing I can do in the countertop editor seems to help either. Even selecting a smaller sink doesn't help. Any ideas?
I don't pay attention to the warnings. Also, I always toggle off the automatic filler. This needs to be done for each cabinet. It's the last toggle when you select modify. It only adds the filler visually but not on your item list. This way I can keep track of the fillers I need. But yeah, ignore the warnings, especially that one.
is there an easy way to "Save AS" so you can do a few options and not restart an entire project. I would like to look at the cost difference between two or more layouts. Any advice would be grateful. thanks
You can save a copy. That way you don't have to start from scratch and can make layout changes.
thanks for the response.@@MTKDofficial I only see a "save". I don't see "save a copy" if I make changes then save. I cannot go back to my original. Am I missing something? using the Lowe's project designer, it has a Duplicate option and a save project as. Not sure how your affiliated with this product, but it might be worth them looking into.
Hiya (and aargh!) I've used the ikea planner before, my last kitchen was in a square room. Easy. BUT how to you get a custom floor plan or shape. My wall goes straight then a 135 degrees turn then a right angle then 135 degree turn then another 135 degree turn. How will I do that? Please help!
Off the top of my head I’m not sure. But I will look and see if I can find an answer.
Hej! I work with the planner as I build IKEA kitchens. You can make angles but its very tricky and almost impossible in the planner to make this the correct angle. You can draw your walls diagonal but you cannot click on the angles to change it to make it perfect. You would need to move the wall constantly to make this correct. :(
I couldn't get this thing off the ground because my kitchen has an angled wall and it's not in the upper right hand corner. How do you rotate the basic floorplan?
Try selecting the wall on the floor plan. You should be able to rotate it.
Cabs sizes show cm, not in. I am logged in US and English, oddly walls, openings all show as inches. Others complained of this online. Yours shows inches though.
*However, I see on mine it is only the heading showing "cm" so if I click the actual cabinet's circled i (information) then it shows the dimensions are inches....
it's happening to me as well. Not sure what the glitch is.
So does this mean that we can trust the usa version to be in inches even if it shows centimeters for the cabinets when we order? Could it just be for certain cabinets only? Nervous to trust it…😅
@@lady4d291 See my second part of my prior post- about the cabinet choices being in inches (I mean in the tool) As far as the actual cabinets go, I'm not sure if those are cm or inches *or both) Check with IKEA kitchen people on that.
Hello i want to try it but i cant find it .isthis planner available in greece?do i have to log in somewhere???in ikea site???
try the U.S site or Canada. I think you can access any of them.
Τhank you very much for your kind responce.😊
Mark, I’m late to this party, but I wanted to ask you, if I use IKEA cabinets, do I have to use their appliances, too?
No, you can use any appliances you want.
Hey, would anyone know why is my kitchen planner not working? I use safari browser like Mark here but all I see is just blank space with few measurements. I can't see anything else what I add to the pic.
Hmm. That's odd. I've not had that happen to me before, but have experienced other glitches. Hopefully it gets working for you. Have you tried other browsers?
Our kitchen is none of those shapes. The back half is narrower than the front half. There are only 3 room shape choices. The closest might be the one with the corner cut-out. If we could replicate that cutout on the opposite side, it would like like our kitchen.
Those are templates, you change them.
My kitchen is a galley, rear wall is less wide than the front. I select the box template, click Openings > Wall Openings < now you drag on that name until it is on the wall you want it on. Ok, now you can click Modify on the left (that wall opening you placed must still be highlighted for the Modify to show)
In Modify options, you change the width, height of your (((missing))) wall section (the area making that wall smaller than the wall across from it) ok, after you do that, it should be set, but, with the opening highlighted (click and hold on the opening, drag it to exactly where it needs to be, so to either side (leaving the rest of the wall as it should appear) Save your design as you get things the way you want them, then you can click them, and make a copy, in case 1 you're working on becomes messed up. Try it, it works, I did it for mine.
My husband measured and is designing the kitchen using the Kitchen Tool, but the cabinets keep flagging red indicating they don't fit. It says there needs to be two inches space. Is this legit and your cabinet doors will really open into walls and each other, or is it an error or guideline?
2" is overkill. You do need some filler space and this depends on how the plumb the wall is. However, those hinges are 110 degree hinges and don't need any space to open. I would try and leave an 1" of filler to be safe (against a wall) and don't worry too much about the warnings. I get them all the time too.
I've recently noticed my measuring tape has gone missing and options for measurements and elevations as well?
Anyone else?
Sometimes there are glitches with the software. Mine seems fine. Both US and Can.
I don't understand. I created an ikea account but have no access to a kitchen planning tool. What am i missing?
hmm. I have it bookmarked now, but I used to search IKEA Kitchen Planner US, or Canada (whatever country you live in).
@@MTKDofficial My mistake.
I was on my phone and you need a PC/laptop to have access to planner.
How do I add backsplash???
In the first menu where you put your wall lengths, I believe there is an option to add it there.
What is the weapight cal
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Ikea kitchen planner olanner now has a blank corner as an option! They must be MTKD fans, lol...its not under corners...i forget where in their menu ut is but i stumbles across it when planned my kitchen...
Alao, did not know that IKEA doesn't include fillers even though they add it automatically in visuals...good thing i watched this video, 😂
Oh they’re watching. Lol.
No island? ;)
Haha
how to convert mm to ft scale
From what I can find, this is not changeable. You'll just have to use google.
You deleted that vertical service stack in the corner and never got back to it. Would have liked you to deal with that problem that a lot of us have,
My bad
What is your favorite IKEA kitchen cabinet style what do you think of Enkoping verses Bodbyn? I’ve heard the latter is easier to clean.
Don't really have a favourite. Well, maybe I do, Axstad. Pretty boring.lol
I think you're right on the cleanability. The wood grain texture of Enkoping can be an issue.
Oh dear! I am reading all these comments and feeling extremely dumb . I have been battling with the Ikea Kitchen Planner for several days; but I cannot work out how to use it effectively, because I cannot make sense of how to remove, change and reposition. I get that you have to be in the right "mode" (as in room sizing or appliance etc.); but when I put an appliance (or a window opening etc.) into my kitchen, I cannot work out how to move it along the wall, change its position etc. .. I even get lost with the arrows when trying to move a window along. I have been going around in circles!! I realise that this is not the fault of Mark; just my inability to understand the process. 😥 Am I the only one that is struggling with this? If I am, I guess I will just leave it alone; but I so wanted to attempt to design our future Ikea kitchen; so if anyone has any (very basic!) advice that I might understand, I would really appreciate it. Thank you.
Hey Julia. I find the planner a bit clunky at times too and it took me a bit to get used to it. I find it pretty easy to work in 2D mode when moving and rotating cabinets. When it comes to windows, the easiest way to slide them is to enter the dimension into the box on the right or left of the window. This will set the window or door to that location and you don't have to mess around with trying to slide it with your mouse. Keep at it!
@@MTKDofficial Thank you so much for taking the time to reply, Mark. I have now “re-tackled” my issues😆, and seem to be getting the hang of it. I have realised that on the laptop (without the app) I do not get the rotate option etc., but I have worked around it. Just the overhead cabinets to go…. Thanks again.
if you use that corner filler you lose the corner space
Yeah that’s the idea for this one. Making use of the more optimal parts of the corner by blocking off the worst of it.
this planner sucks, thanks tho