Before And After Picture Of Our New Kitchen Cabinets
Aug
11
We are almost finished with putting together our kitchen. As you can see from the picture below we just have to put up two more cupboard doors and add an extra piece to the counter top.
My dad and husband have done such a great job on this. They said that Ikea makes it really easy to put it together but unfortunately we haven’t had very good experiences with Ikea’s customer service.
First 4 doors were missing and we were given a few extra things, these were not items from the store order where they make you check off every item to make sure you have everything but from their warehouse. We finally got our 4 doors 2 weeks ago to find that 2 of them were broken and they have still not called us about replacements.
When we went to return the extra items the returns employee made it very difficult for us so I asked for a manager and the manager was very rude to us. There was a couple next to us returning an item because they were given the wrong colour and the employees were being very difficult with them as well. It is normal to have nice employees and rude employees working in a store but when there is a rude management it just gives me a very bad impression of the store.
However, I am happy with the way the kitchen looks it looks so much nicer than what we had before. JJ wants to put a splashback from the countertops to the cabinets. JJ talks about taking a tiling class but I think metal tiles would be an easier way to go.
Here is our before and after picture:
August 11th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Looks great! I bet you are happy to have more space to put things and more useable counter space. Sorry their customer service is so bad.
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August 11th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Congrats on the new kitchen cabinets…they look fabulous! I can’t wait for the day that I have a house of my own and will get my dad to do my cabinets/closets (my dad and brother own their own cabinetry company in Utah called “Creative Closets and More”…can we say major discount?)
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Melissa Reply:
August 12th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
I didn’t know you had family in Utah. If you come down to visit, we’ll have to get together!
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August 12th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Wow, WAY lame about the customer service. I hope you get your two doors very soon. Great job installing… they look perfect. And hooray for so many more shelves and drawers!!!
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Melissa Reply:
August 12th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
We have space for our food storage now!
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August 13th, 2009 at 5:21 am
Oh my!!!!
I love your new cabinets!
Cool!
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August 16th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
We have the same cabinets!! (Mine are from Ikea) Yeah, you are right, metal tiles would be better.
Your kitchen looks WAY better now! I might have to hire your Dad and JJ!
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August 16th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Where did you get that spice rack?
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August 16th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
JJ got it for me for my birthday 2 years ago from Walmart.
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November 10th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
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