Mum’s basement kitchenette is lastly completed and WOW what a metamorphosis!
The sink and tap featured on this put up have been sponsored by BLANCO. I solely work with manufacturers I do know, love, and might truthfully suggest. All opinions are my very own.
The unique setup that our builder had put in was practical, however primary. The cupboards didn’t make use of all of the house obtainable and mum was restricted to a small below counter fridge.
We have been impressed to create a extra stunning house that gave her the choice for a bigger fridge however nonetheless had plenty of storage.
All the cupboards from ikea and use the GRIMSLÖV doorways in off-white. We did a mixture of stable and glass entrance doorways so as to add a little bit of selection and added a TORNVIKEN open cupboard for wine storage.
The countertop is laminate and likewise from Ikea. It was very straightforward for a DIY set up, however slicing it to dimension, making the outlet for the sink and gluing on the supplied edge binding.
The small “island” is produced from two IKEA cupboards with a niche between them for a barstool. The counter and again panel are pine boards from the ironmongery shop completed with beeswax.
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The sink and tap have been each sponsored by BLANCO (the identical model we utilized in our foremost kitchen). We love our silgranit sink upstairs, so mum wished the identical materials in her basement kitchenette. She picked the DIAMOND 1 mannequin which supplies her plenty of house handy wash any dishes and likewise holds a drying rack (liberating up counter house!).
The tap is the ALTA mannequin additionally from BLANCO and it matches so completely within the house. It has all of the options mum wished (pull out with spray, swivel) however is just 10.25″ tall – which is vital when you’ve lower than 13″ of house to work with!
For each the sink and tap we picked the Cinder end (a darkish gray/black) to go with the concrete look countertop and the brick-style backsplash tile.
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The fridge is an house dimension 24” counter depth mannequin that has a compact little backside freezer (nice for ice cream) and the prevailing 18″ dishwasher is an enormous time saver.
To try to preserve as a lot stuff off the counter as doable, we moved the Ikea kitchen cart that was initially up in my workplace all the way down to create slightly espresso bar. It additionally holds cookbooks and has house for a small microwave.
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