How To Make A Kitchen Island With Ikea Cabinets

The cabinet is the middle has a 5 drawer on the top and a 10 drawer on the bottom with a shelf just above the bottom drawer.

How to make a kitchen island with ikea cabinets. Add some colorful bar stools and vola a gorgeous piece is ready. This was very important to me to include the custom woodwork and create an island that looked more like a furniture piece and to also incorporate the design elements that are throughout the house. To attach the legs on the DIY kitchen island place the case upside down hold or clamp each leg to the case predrill holes then screw them together with 2 or 25 wood screws.

I wanted the island to feel like piece of furniture rather than have a recessed toe kick. You can easily make this for free or a couple hundred bucks. Top kitchen cabinets made into a kitchen island.

They each have four drawers. You need to build a sturdy base to hold the weight of your island especially if youre planning on using a stone. Clad the sides with the HITTARP cover panels.

Do the same for the 3 cabinets on the other side. The only one that was more up for discretion was how long the island would be toward the living room opening. Im going to show you how to make a kitchen island.

Create the waterfall kitchen island using Ikea butcher blocks and use an Ikea Expedit bookshelf for the mini island. If we did three 24 inch cabinets the island would be 72 inches long and if we swapped one cabinet for a 18 inch it would be 66 inches. In order to get the cabinets to the necessary height a platform was built from 2 x 4s actual dimensions being 15 x 35 with 1 plywood on top to create a necessary toe kick height of 45.

6 top cabinets to make 1 kitchen island. I used these plastic legs for my base cabinets up against my back wall see image below however you CANNOT use these legs when creating a standalone island. If playback doesnt begin.