We've bought many items from IKEA, but never kitchen cabinets.

We redid the kitchen at our old house with maple-finish "Mill's Pride"
cabinets from HD. Assembly and installation were straightforward, but
nothing (appliances or sink) had to be relocated. We were not there long
enough afterwards to find out how durable they were, but somebody else
reported here a couple of months back that the white Mill's Pride stuff
did not last long in a situation with which (s)he was familiar. (But the
maple doors and drawer fronts are solid wood (seemed to be, anyway),
whereas the white have just a laminated finish.)

MB


On 09/18/04 05:13 pm Spiderman put fingers to keyboard and launched the
following message into cyberspace:

Has anyone here installed an IKEA kitchen themselves? Were the instructions
easy-to-follow? For example, how easy is it to mount the wall cabinets in an
older house with uneven walls? The kitchen I'm looking to remodel is in a
small 10'x10' room (approximately 7'x7' for the actual kitchen area), so it
would basically consist of about 5-10 wall/base cabinets, a range, and sink
arranged in an L shape. The sink/range will be about a foot away from their
current positions, so the service lines may need to be extended. Does the
particleboard construction hold up over time (at least they make it easy to
replace doors/shelves, etc.)?

I've heard horror stories about people ordering kitchens from IKA and
receiving broken/missing parts or late delivery or some parts. Is the
customer service really that bad or is just a loud, vocal minority? I live
in the Philadelphia area is it makes a difference.

How would you rate the IKEA kitchen remodel experience to an equivalent Home
Depot/Lowes "ready to assemble" path?