How To Install Countertop On Ikea Cabinets

Today is countertop day! Tin I go a holla?! Aye, we are still talking about our IKEA kitchen. DIYing an IKEA kitchen is no joke. So. Much. Work! The countertops were not DIY (give thanks goodness) – IKEA sent a crew over to mensurate and install the countertops. Nosotros are super happy with them and am glad we purchased them through IKEA.

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Hither'south our kitchen, ready for countertops!

When we ordered our kitchen through IKEA we told them we wanted to buy the countertops also. We chose our material and they did a rough square footage to come up up with the cost. They also gave us their 3rd party company that installs the counters and told us to phone call them when nosotros were fix to schedule the templating.

IKEA also told us that if we had the countertop company come out and the kitchen wasn't 100% ready, they would non template. They needed the kitchen finished – including all filler pieces. They didn't need every aspect of the kitchen finished, but wherever the countertop was going to touch cabinets or filler, those areas needed to be 100% finished.

Equally you can run across in these photos, areas like the pantry and upper cabinets are non finished with all the filler, but since the counter wasn't going to touch those areas we didn't need them consummate.

However, all the side and filler pieces on the lower cabinets were completely ready earlier the countertop company came out.

I called the countertop company and scheduled them most a week out. That gave me a week to get the kitchen completely ready for the templating. I was up late the dark earlier finishing piffling details at the final infinitesimal.

The templating process was fascinating! I wasn't certain how they would do it, and watching the guy work was enlightening. Maybe I'm the just one who geeks out over this stuff, but I thoroughly enjoyed learning the process of coutnertops.

They used strips of balsa wood. Balsa wood is very soft and cuts easily. He laid out the strips and hot glued them together. Then he took a utility knife and easily cut the excess off.

We had three dissever countertop areas. The 1 beneath is to the right of the stove and is our coffee expanse.

Here is the countertop to the left of the stove and is our lazy susan, sink, and mini wrap-around counter area.

Y'all can run into how he fabricated the small section for the wrap-around counter. This kitchen is starting to have shape and I am more than excited nearly it!

For the island, he templated the unabridged isle surface and too the overhang for the counter.

They took all these templates dorsum to their shop to cut the counters. I guess I assumed they would just measure a lot and and so transpose it to the countertops, just they used these real templates as stencils to cut the counters perfectly.

About a week later they showed back upward with the cut counters. The showtime one to go on was our isle overhang. Oh the excitement of seeing this finally and being able to visualize sitting here!

The island required two pieces of countertop material.

Our little java area only needed one piece. I'm always happier with fewer seams.

Here'due south our sink and wrap-around counter being slid into place. I am thrilled that they were able to exercise the mini countertop on the same slab and reduce the number of seams in the kitchen.

The sink and lazy-susan ended up using ii slabs so a seam was needed to the right of the sink.

They used this machine attached to each piece of countertop to seal the seams together.

I'thousand not exactly sure how it works. I don't know if information technology's just holding the seams together tightly while mucilage dries, or if it heats it or what, but the seams are tight after this.

Wow, a beginning look at this kitchen coming to life!

They also installed the under-mountain sink. I forgot to mention, when they did the template, they took the sink back to the shop with them to brand sure they had a perfect fit before coming back to install everything.

Hither'southward an up close of the counter. The textile we chose is called Frosty Carrina from IKEA.

Here's a absurd view from our true cat-walk. I wanted to show that yous can encounter the kitchen from the 2nd floor.

Once the sink was in place they drilled a hole for the faucet. I opted to have simply one hole drilled. He suggested to do another one for soap, merely I didn't want extra holes in my new counter.