Household Room Media Middle Design Constructed with IKEA Merchandise

Mixing IKEA merchandise with different suppliers leads to a novel media heart design.

Many design concepts are impressed by one thing a home-owner sees on a house enchancment present, Pinterest, or whereas shopping furnishings shops. They see a chunk, fall in love, after which see the value tag. Householders love IKEA as a result of a lot of the furnishings obtainable within the retailer just isn’t solely engaging but additionally reasonably priced.

Home-owner Robert didn’t fall into this thrifty class. He shared a quote with us from billionaire Warren Buffet: “Don’t save what’s left after spending, however spend what’s left after saving.” His price range was a bit roomier than most, so he was keen to spend further to get precisely what he needed from his IKEA media heart.

This house owner was open to mixing IKEA with different suppliers from the beginning.

“I knew what I needed for the media heart in my house workplace and that I may get most—however not all—of what I needed from IKEA. I at all times have a look at the most cost effective choices first, and IKEA is reasonably priced and has good high quality. I discovered IKD whereas trying to find a designer that included IKEA furnishings into their designs but additionally labored with different distributors.” –Robert, IKD buyer

Robert defined that his workplace is giant and divided into two elements: his workspace and a spot for rest. His media heart design can be going the place he relaxed, and he needed to make sure it had heat colours and a Zen really feel. He loved earth tones and wooden grain, and the middle wanted to look intentional.

A tricolor palette added a heat feeling to the impartial room.

Robert’s colour palette had heat orange, inexperienced, and woodgrain tones. Designer Frank knew instantly that combining IKEA’s cupboards with BODARP gray-green doorways would give Robert the closed storage he requested, and VADHOLMA open storage would complement the look. Since IKEA doesn’t provide any counter tops or paneling in a heat orange tone, Frank advised discovering a neighborhood vendor who may present Formica counter tops in Photo voltaic Orange. Robert additionally ordered Formica´s Walnut Butcher Block laminate, for the realm above the orange laminate, from the identical firm. To complete the look, Frank included a floating shelf from Semihandmade within the design.

“Robert made it very clear that if it seemed like one thing he may have picked up at a furnishings retailer, there can be no level in having a customized design. He needed the media heart to be a cohesive piece of furnishings, with built-in floor-to-ceiling closed storage and a pretty, clutter-free area for his tv, audio system, and succulent assortment.” –Frank, IKD designer

A couple of IKEA hacks made this design look as if it really belonged.

To create the floor-to-ceiling built-in, Frank used a 15” W x 24” D x 90”H IKEA cupboard body and trimmed it to fifteen”D so it lined up with the drawer models of the media heart. The drawer models have been created utilizing 30”W x 15”D x 15”H IKEA cupboards lowered to 10”H. The ultimate unit measured 16”D by 117”W.

He stacked three IKEA VADHOLMA open storage models beside the tall cupboard however encased it in a BODARP grey-green panel to make it look as if it had at all times been part of the cupboard unit. The grey-green colour continued to the three drawers of the TV stand, which Frank topped with the Formica Photo voltaic Orange countertop after which introduced midway up the wall to create an eye catching backdrop for the TV.

The wall panel continued in Walnut Butcher Block, stopping on the floating Semihandmade bamboo floating shelf with an built-in LED gentle. Inserting the unit on CAPITA chrome steel legs introduced the TV nearer to eye degree and related with the chrome steel KALLROR door and drawer handles.

Robert selected to have a contractor lower and set up the unit. The overall for all IKEA merchandise got here to $1,156.

“Having the procuring checklist and plans made this very straightforward on my contractor, and it got here out simply because the 3D rendering advised. I believe it’s very good that Frank used the orange as a focus. The leisure heart is gorgeous to have a look at even when the tv isn’t on. I’m simply as pleased to sit down on the sofa and browse and benefit from the calm area as I’m to atone for a present.” –Robert, IKD buyer

Mixing merchandise from a number of suppliers can convey out the most effective in your media heart design.

As Robert knew, utilizing IKEA’s cheap cupboards, door fronts, and storage as a place to begin for this media heart made monetary sense. Nevertheless, pairing these merchandise with Semihandmade and Formica enhanced the design and gave him precisely what he needed with out compromising on the Zen model he desired.