{"id":2390,"date":"2024-05-20T14:37:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T06:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/2024\/05\/20\/kitchen-of-the-week-a-japanese-style-upgrade-for-ikea-kitchens\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T14:37:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T06:37:18","slug":"kitchen-of-the-week-a-japanese-style-upgrade-for-ikea-kitchens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/nl\/kitchen-of-the-week-a-japanese-style-upgrade-for-ikea-kitchens\/","title":{"rendered":"Keuken van de week: Een Japanse upgrade voor Ikea-keukens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking inspiration from traditional Japanese architecture as well as her own Nordic roots, 39-year-old Danish furniture maker Chris Liljenberg Halstr\u00f8m detailed her new kitchen design with intersecting bands of solid ash: The shoji screen meets Danish minimalism. The goal, she says, was to create cabinetry that can be \u201cperceived as a piece of furniture.\u201d Surprisingly there\u2019s nothing bespoke about her kitchen: It\u2019s composed of Ikea cabinets with fronts from high-brow Ikea hackers Reform of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

Halstrom is the latest in a small, impressive lineup of designers that Reform has turned to for its Ikea tweaks: See Norm Architects Reinvent the Ikea Kitchen and A Copenhagen Tastemaker Reinvents Her Kitchen. And the good news is that Reform now has a Brooklyn showroom, so its fronts and counters are available in the States as well as throughout Europe.<\/p>\n

Photography courtesy of Reform.<\/p>\n


Above: \u201cThe handle is often a decorative element on a cabinet door, but my kitchen design, the handle has become a part of the entire door\u2014a frame for the door itself,\u201d says Halstr\u00f8m. <\/p>\n

The cabinet fronts are applied to a framework of Ikea cabinets: They\u2019re designed to fit Sektion components in the United States and Metod in Europe.<\/p>\n


Above: The fronts are composed of 3\/4-inch MDF with veneered ash on the back and laminate on the front along with solid ash edges and handles. <\/p>\n

They come in three variations: nero laminate, shown here, with stained black ash detailing, as well as gray or beige laminate with natural matte-lacquered ash. Counters are available in a matching laminate or solid ash (sinks are flush-mounted in the laminate and under-mounted in the wood).<\/p>\n


Above: In gray with natural wood edging, the design takes on a Scandi look. <\/p>\n

Chris L. Halstr\u00f8m has a degree from the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, and, in addition to running her own studio (and creating award-winning storage systems for Skagerak), she often teams up with textile designer Margrethe Odgaard; they call their collaboration Included Middle and say their work answers the question: \u201cWhat if color and pattern influence form, and what if form influences color and pattern?\u201d<\/p>\n


Above: The ash handles can be applied on either the right or left side of the cabinets. The ash edging ends with a subtle notch.
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Above: The price for the kitchens shown here is approximately $2,800 for the parts from Reform and approximately $500, Reform estimates, for the Ikea cabinets. Shipping in the US runs from $400 to $600. <\/p>\n

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