{"id":536,"date":"2012-09-16T05:50:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T05:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/?p=536"},"modified":"2012-12-31T07:36:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T07:36:38","slug":"the-process-of-getting-an-ikea-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/16\/the-process-of-getting-an-ikea-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"The process of getting an Ikea Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking of upgrading your old 80&#8217;s style Kitchen and need an Ikea style Kitchen? Or is your wife pressuring\/whipping your butt to take on this new project? Well, it&#8217;s quite a process and here&#8217;s a breakdown. And it&#8217;s NOT Cheap either (just so you know)<\/p>\n<p>So here are the people involved (at least in the Bay Area &#8211; Silicon Valley, CA):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your General Contractor<\/li>\n<li>Traemand &#8211; Ikea Partner for Design &amp; Cabinet installation<\/li>\n<li>United Marble &amp; Granite &#8211; Ikea Partner for Countertops<\/li>\n<li>Plumber, Electrician or your General Contractor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s the step by step process &#8211; Yes. It has to be in this order and can take several weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>DESIGN<\/strong> : Get a designer (Ikea partner &#8211; Traaemand) to design the Kitchen and come up with parts &#8212; $200 just to design it<\/li>\n<li><strong>MATERIALS<\/strong> : From the design, buy all the cabinets etc. from Ikea and have it delivered (Best time is when Ikea has a 20% discount SALE)<\/li>\n<li><strong>APPLIANCES<\/strong> : You might need to buy appliances from Ikea, Fry&#8217;s, Sears etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>DEMOLITION<\/strong> : (Week 1) Get a contractor to demolish your current kitchen<\/li>\n<li><strong>NO KITCHEN<\/strong> : (Week 1-4) Prepare to live on Junk Food\/Take Out<\/li>\n<li><strong>CABINET INSTALLATION<\/strong> : (Week 1) Get Traemand folks to install the cabinets (or have your contractor do this)<\/li>\n<li><strong>COUNTER TOP\/SINK INSTALLATION<\/strong> : (Week 2-4) Work with UM&amp;G to template the counter top and then have it cut and installed. You can find &#8220;other&#8221; places to speed up this step.<\/li>\n<li><strong>APPLIANCE INSTALLATION<\/strong> : (Week 1-3) Have your General Contractor or the Store (Fry&#8217;s\/Sears) install appliances<\/li>\n<li><strong>PLUMBING<\/strong> : (Week 4) Get water to your sink and refrigerator. UM&amp;G will not drill holes that go past the granite. So if there&#8217;s plywood your General Contractor need to take care of it and do the plumbing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>ELECTRIAL<\/strong> : (Week 2-4) Gas\/220V power supply etc. depending on your situation. Pain in the a$$ &#8211; Involve your General Contractor or Electrician<\/li>\n<li><strong>BACK IN BUSINESS<\/strong> : (Week 4) Now you can cook at your own place<\/li>\n<li><strong>BACKSPLASH<\/strong> : (Week 4-N) You might need to Home Depot this and have your contractor install it or do it yourself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>PAINTING<\/strong> : (Week 4-N) Just do it yourself. Enough money spent alreadyl<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There you go &#8211; Freaking pain in the a$$. It&#8217;s a complicated process, but Ikea is a name you can trust and it looks pretty cool (to me) in the end. So it&#8217;s worth the wait and the pain. Things can be buggy at times, but yeah just manage the project well and if you have a good contractor you should be good to go.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the photos.<\/p>\n\t<div class='ngg-imagebrowser' id='ngg-imagebrowser-1e44a5333791de939c5592c97fd87405-536' data-nextgen-gallery-id=\"1e44a5333791de939c5592c97fd87405\">\n\n    <h3>Old Fridge<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"pic\" >\n        <a href='http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/kitchen_remodel\/fridge.jpg'\n           title=' '\n           data-src=\"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/kitchen_remodel\/fridge.jpg\"\n           data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/kitchen_remodel\/thumbs\/thumbs_fridge.jpg\"\n           data-image-id=\"1\"\n           data-title=\"Old Fridge\"\n           data-description=\" \"\n           class=\"shutterset_1e44a5333791de939c5592c97fd87405\">\n            <img title='Old Fridge'\n                 alt='Old Fridge'\n                 src='http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/kitchen_remodel\/fridge.jpg'\/>\n        <\/a>\n\t  <\/div> \n\n    <div class='ngg-imagebrowser-nav'>\n\n        <div class='back'>\n            <a class='ngg-browser-prev'\n               id='ngg-prev-13'\n               href='http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/16\/the-process-of-getting-an-ikea-kitchen\/nggallery\/image\/new-side-countertop\/'>\n                &#9668; Back            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <div class='next'>\n            <a class='ngg-browser-next'\n               id='ngg-next-5'\n               href='http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/16\/the-process-of-getting-an-ikea-kitchen\/nggallery\/image\/new-fridge\/'>\n                Next                &#9658;\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <div class='counter'>\n            Picture 1 of 10        <\/div>\n\n        <div class='ngg-imagebrowser-desc'>\n            <p>\n                             <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\n\tjQuery(function($) {\n\t\tnew NggPaginatedGallery('1e44a5333791de939c5592c97fd87405', '.ngg-imagebrowser');\n\t});\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking of upgrading your old 80&#8217;s style Kitchen and need an Ikea style Kitchen? Or is your wife pressuring\/whipping your butt to take on this new project? Well, it&#8217;s quite a process and here&#8217;s a breakdown. And it&#8217;s NOT Cheap either (just so you know) So here are the people involved (at least in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}