Fitting kitchen in a non squar room....

[robertoi]

Im fitting an IKEA kitchen into my 2.2m by 3.2m kitchen at the moment. I had thought the room was square, however it appears that it may not be.

If you stand in the doorway of the kitchen, the layout is a basic U shape, with cabinets/ cooker on the right, sink at the end opposite you, draws, and appliances on the left. Now, after putting the cupboards on the right hand side in place and flush with the wall, I have found that the angle between the front edge of those units, and the rear wall where the sink needs to go, is more than 90 degrees. If I aim to get the units square with the rear wall, then they are going to end up too far from the wall at the other end of the room.

I dont yet know if the left hand wall is parallel with the right hand, and it is just the rear wall which is out of square.

I am trying to work out what the best thing to do would be. My options seem to be:

1) Leave units flush against their respective walls, and have > 90 degree angles at work surface butt joints
2) Square the units with one another, so that butt joints between surface are 90 degrees, using a batten or something behind the far units (this would need a wedge shaped batten of about 4cm thickness at one end....
3) If left hand wall is parallel with right, leave units on these walls flush, and adjust sink unit etc until it is square with the other units, if not the wall.

Hope that makes some sense, any advice most gratefully received.

Rob

 

[skenk]

If the walls are only slightly off square then you could well be better off making the worktops at 90 angles to one another, scribing the backs of the worktops so they fit against the wall. If the walls are significantly out, you'll be better putting the units flush against their respective walls and having worktop joins at whatever angle is required. Corner posts will allow the off-angles between units to be hidden. You may run into problems if corner units are supplied fixed at 90deg - eg wall units, in which case they may need modified or battened out from the wall, or both, and possibly (if walls are >90) the use of a base end panel trimmed to fit the wall unit ends (as wall unit end panels will be too small). Can't remember what ikea ones are like for modifying . . .

 

[robertoi]

Hey skenk,
Thanks for your advice. Id say the angle between the right and far wall is probably about 93 degrees or there abouts, so its not a huge amount. I was thinking of maybe battening the units on the far wall by just 1 or 2 cm or so, to reduce the angle a bit, but not completely to 90, as that would leave too big a gap behind the surface.

Presumably a chippy should be able to cope with joining the work surfaces at such angles!?

I bought the ikea oak worktops, and because theyre only 62cm deep, there's not much potential for scribing them I dont think (cabinet+door depth is almost 60cm).

 

[skenk]

Yeah a chippie who can joint worktops -not all of them- should be able to join them at off-angles no problem.