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The Velveteen Ocelot

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2. I did and I'm quite happy with it.
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 07:56 PM
Sep 2013

I got an estimate for new cabinets from a contractor and it totally busted my budget, so I went to IKEA and got pretty much what I wanted at about 1/3 of what the contractor would have charged. I had a horrible old kitchen completely redone, and the carpenter who was doing the work also hung the cabinets (I helped assemble them, which wasn't very hard). You would want help with this because they are heavy and it's hard to hang them straight. The other thing about not getting custom cabinets is that you have to figure out exactly what will fit where, and you can get spacers in case the fit isn't exact. I used their design tool and it took a little fiddling but I eventually did get the hang of it. I used those drawings to buy the pieces and printed them out for the carpenter to put the kitchen together.

Here's what I ended up with:

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