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Painted Drawer Front with Corner Cut

Painted Drawer Front with Half Moon Cut

Painted Drawer Front with J-Pull Handle

Painted Drawer Front with Hole Handle

Painted Drawer Front with No Handle

Painted Cabinet Door with Corner Cut

Painted Cabinet Door with Half Moon Cut

Painted Cabinet Door with J-Pull Handle

Painted Cabinet Door with Hole Handle

Painted Cabinet Door with No Handle

Painted Cabinet Door with Overhang

Painted Cover Panels

Kitchens can be very expensive to do, especially if you have an appreciation for Australian design and Australian materials. At So Watt we offer the IKEA hack package, this allows you to buy the overall kitchen design and carcasses (boxes without drawer fronts or cupboard doors) from IKEA kitchens Australia and buy all flare from us.

IKEA kitchens Australia have been designing and making kitchens at an extreme scale for a long time - this means that they’re very good at doing the basics for a great price! Which is where So Watt comes in; we love going above and beyond, adding interesting design, colour and materials, so you can have a kitchen that matches you and your needs.

What does IKEA Hack usually look like?

IKEA Hack with So Watt usually looks like buying the drawer fronts, Cupboard doors, handels and maybe a benchtop from So Watt, but So Watt are happy to get as involved as you need.

IKEA Hack Personal Shopper

At So Watt we offer an extra service that allows you to be confident that the process will be carried out correctly and the right kitchen will be delivered to you. So Watt will make sure all our IKEA Hack parts are compatible with your kitchen drawings (supplied by IKEA), and may be able to give you some further suggestions for custom elements.

Design solutions we recommend:

Raised handles
Raised handles are a great way to break the mould and elevate your IKEA design. At So Watt we offer many different types of raised handles, however one we recommend is the half moon handle with a clear finish.
So Watt cabinet doors
The So Watt cabinet door with corner cut is a great way to add an angular feel to a sometimes rudimentary space. It can also sometimes benefit some of the preexisting design features of IKEA kitchen designs.
So Watt drawer fronts
The So Watt drawer front with the J pull can be a very subtle way to include drawers into your IKEA Kitchen design.

Need Extra design help?

If you feel that your design vision needs more time to be honed and understood, So Watt offers an extra service of design time where we’ll sit down with you to better understand your Ikea Kitchen designs and how we can improve it by replacing the Ikea doors and Ikea drawers. As part of this service you can expect a multitude of relevant samples, photos from similar projects and a detailed price guides to help you work through your Kitchen design.

Shipping

At So Watt we try to make shipping as safe and easy as possible. Because we ship big pieces of precious IKEA Hack Drawers and cabinet fronts, we need to pay professionals so we know your pieces are safe to go to camperdown, Canberra or as far as Cairns. This means we use private couriers as Australia post don’t ship packages on the scale that we require. Even though we can ship to anywhere in Australia we love it if you want to pick up your piece. By picking it up you save on shipping costs and get to see where your plywood furniture was born.

Payment options

Our payment systems are designed to make life as easy as possible for our customers, with three different types of express payment options, Paypal, Shop Pay, and Google pay as well as regular credit card payments options. Our ambition is to make it as easy and secure as possible for you to get your IKEA Kitchen Australia design additions.

At So Watt our ambition is offer smart design solutions to as many Australians as possible regardless of their budget, this is why Ikea Hack is so important, it allows us to offer Australian materials and design at a much cheaper price than having a whole kitchen built. It also allows many more people to have access to the Australian design and Australian materials all coming together in our Marrickville workshop where it’s lovingly put together. Browse our extensive range here.

FAQ

IKEA Hack is when you edit (or hack) the original design of an IKEA product to customise it and make it your own. It uses all the main components from IKEA and allows you to get creative with the outcome. An IKEA Hack can be anything from painting your IKEA product a different colour, adding your own handles, or for our IKEA Hack kitchens it’s adding your own Australian made kitchen doors and drawer fronts supplied by So Watt! Check out the range of options we offer for your IKEA kitchen design here.

The kitchen design IKEA offer is really flexible. Metod is the product name for all the cabinets that are used in common kitchen designs, and you can start with these to get the base of your design. Then you can get creative and customise with our range of IKEA hack Australia loves! Don’t be afraid to customise it even further by speaking with us for bespoke elements like floating shelves or open pigeon holes. You could say IKEA is made to be customised!

To learn more, read our step by step guide here

f you are moving house or renovating, you might find that the IKEA furniture you purchased doesn’t quite work anymore. The best way to reuse IKEA furniture and cabinets is to Hack it! Get really creative and use the panels, legs, doors, frame and turn it into something unique. Maybe it just needs an updated look with a lick of paint and some fun IKEA Hack handles like our cabinet pull handles! Shop the handles here.

Did you know you can use IKEA Metod kitchen cabinets as a sideboard in your living room or dresser in your bedroom? It’s so easy to modify IKEA furniture and cabinets by just looking at them as a simple starter box. Purchase our cover panels to clad the sides and top in a finish of your choosing, then shop our drawer fronts to create a bespoke bedroom drawer unit or check out our range of IKEA door hack designs with fun handle cutouts to create a feature buffet cabinet for your dining room!

When using IKEA to create your new kitchen, the Metod boxes end up being hidden behind all the doors, drawer fronts, cover panels and bench tops. This means it’s as easy as shopping for unique local IKEA hack Australia doors and drawer fronts to change the look of your IKEA furniture or kitchen project.

Not sure how to approach your design, or stuck with too much choice? You can book a consult with us to talk through all the IKEA hack design ideas you have and even come to our IKEA Hack test kitchen in our Camperdown showroom to play around with combinations. We will help you to make it fun to customise IKEA furniture and create exciting IKEA Hack designs for an outcome you will love.