You’ve got 66” to play with, for 120” ceilings.

IKEA has glass doors for the 15”H cabinet doors. In 30” width flip up. Which is much more useful. But limiting your kitchen to just 30” wide cabinets on the lowers is very very hard design wise.

40”+15”=55”

10” of a built up molding would be slightly tall, but with 120” ceilings, it’s not completely out of proportion. You’d have to use something besides IKEA moldings anyway, so you might as well build the crown that you want, and the top layer profile is what you use for room crown, all the way around.

To get a paint match, you have SW put a cabinet door sample in their spectrograph. Have them select a “rough surface”, and it will take 3 different measurements and average them for the resultant custom color. You get a better match anyway. All of your crown buildup gets prepainted before you install. Then you just need to touch up after install. Which can be a bear if you haven’t done a lot of molding applications.

That's a huge amount of work. And the using only 30”W wall cabinets is going to be so very limiting. Just as only using 15”, 18”, 24”, 30”, and 36” would be if you used the 20”H doors to hack. You might do a preliminary layout to see how many compromises you have to make to use a limited size line. See if you can make any of the sizes work first.

I would personally suggest looking for an assembled line with more versatility, so that there is less work for you. I have used Kraftmaid Basics or Woodstar and that’s been close to Ikea in price. Similar specs in that it’s furniture board with limited sizes. It does have more sizes than IKEA. And it’s assembled. Which helps.

This is Woodstar.

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Or contact a local custom maker. See what they would charge to get you exactly what you want, with them being responsible for all of the measurements and install. Don’t underestimate the huge value that brings to a long and stressful build. Especially as you get towards the end, and you’re worn out.

I'm not really familiar with IKEA cabinets, nor am I pro, but what you're suggesting sounds like a crazy amount of work. I agree with above poster, I think you can find what you need for a little more $$ and a lot less hassle.

Thanks @User and @megs1030 for the advice. We have gotten 4 bids from local cabinet makers (we are rural so cabinet makers are pretty rare and some are still old-school in only doing framed cabinets with partial overlay doors instead of frameless with full overlay. All were over double in price than IKEA. We've either seen or experienced. I don't think it will be a ton of work if we were to go the Scherr's route with the doors for the 20" uppers.

I considered doing the 15" tall uppers but I don't like the X pattern the 15" Bodbyn uppers makes and would rather just have clear glass.

If I've calculated correctly, in order to fill the 66" space, I could do 40" upper with 20" upper stacked on top of it + 6" space for crown. I'm just not sure if I like the 20" upper or the 15" upper better proportionally.

What about Hittarp? That's the same finish as the cream Bodbyn and has different glass doors.

We can get pretty darn close to matching that style with a glass-ready open frame. Shoot us an email for a free quote!

info@scherrs.com

I'm a professional carpenter and I'd be nervous about doing a good job cutting a center panel out of a door with a jig saw / reciprocating saw. Then, you'd ideally want a recess for the glass to sit in which would need to get routed in... I wince at the thought of using ONLY glass clips.

-Luke

Thanks, Luke! I will definitely be contacting you once we finalize our plan and if we decide to go with IKEA.

@Home Reborn, have you used IKEA's Lerhyttan in light gray yet? It says it's new on the IKEA USA website and I don't recall seeing it as an option before. I'm wondering if it's a painted gray or a gray stain.

@shead - No, I haven't used it yet.

When I did our quote, Ikea was $6k less than our fully custom cabinets. I went for custom. We are not going all the way to the ceiling so maybe that makes a difference.

I saw the ladies do this on Good Bones on HGTV. They didn’t explain the step by step, but I watched them cut and pry the solid center panel out. Then, they took the frames to a glass shop.