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Elevate Your Kitchen Design with Distinctive Spacer Panels: A Guide to Designing Your Ideal Kitchen Look
A.S.Helsingö Journal | Have you dreamed of a customized kitchen, wardrobe, or sideboard? The solution for a personalized outcome at a reasonable cost is spacer panels. With spacer panels, you can create various atmospheres—sophisticated and elegant ensembles or rhythmic graphic lines. Explore the possibilities through our spacer panel guide.
What Are Spacer Panels?
If you want to achieve an individual, sophisticated style we advice you to consider adding spacer panels to your kitchen, wardrobe or sideboard design. You can explore with different styles: adding vertical strips to your design or creating a grid pattern with both vertical and horizontal strips. Spacer panels can be installed slightly protruding or flush with the cabinet doors and drawers. If you want pull-out drawers behind the cabinet doors, choose spacer panels that align with the doors.
A.S.Helsingö Ingarö Kitchen in Feather Grey with Spacer Panels in Natural Oak
How to Position Spacer Panels?
By extending the spacer panels beyond the plinth, designers aim to enhance the perception of depth and openness. This technique not only adds a decorative touch to the lower part of the kitchen cabinets but also plays with visual elements to make the overall kitchen area feel more expansive. The emphasis on the empty space in front of the plinth can contribute to a modern and airy aesthetic in kitchen design.
In this A.S.Helsingö Samsö Kitchen Spacer panels are positioned extending beyond the plinth, emphasizing the empty space in front of the plinth, creating a light impression.
When spacer panels are designed to match the height of the cabinet frame, they create a seamless visual transition, emphasizing the cabinet structure. This integrated design choice ensures a cohesive look, preserves the plinth, and adds a subtle architectural element to the kitchen.
In this A.S.Helsingö Ingarö Kitchen in Dusty Rose, spacer panels are positioned to the height of the frame, leaving the plinth intact.
Contrast or Tone?
Spacer panels are available in the same beautiful shades and materials as our other products. By changing the color of the spacer panels, you can create your desired combination; tone-on-tone spacer panels are a more subtle choice, while contrast spacer panels add a stronger rhythm to the overall look. You can also order spacer panels in a color of your choice.
A.S.Helsingö Ingarö Kitchen in Natural White and Parassol Handles in Brass
Relevance Across Time
Spacer panels are suitable for all eras. They are ordered a lot for homes from the 50s and 60s, but they also complement 70s architecture beautifully. In turn-of-the-century buildings, spacer panels can be used tone on tone with cabinets and walls to create a luxurious atmosphere or to create frames for completely modern cabinets, which are also a good choice alongside older architecture.
A.S.Helsingö Ingarö Kitchen in Natural Oak
How Much do Spacer Panels Add to the Cost?
Depending on the material, spacer panels increase the cost of the kitchen to some extent. You can explore our price examples or calculate the price for your own kitchen plan with our price calculator. You can design wardrobes and sideboards with our configurator, where you can see the final price of the product immediately and easily place an order at the same time.
Remember: The list of spacer panels on this page refers to kitchen spacer panels. Wardrobe and sideboard spacer panels can be found on the respective product pages.
In this A.S.Helsingö Samsö Kitchen, the spacer panels are installed at the level of the cabinet doors in the upper cabinets and slightly outward in the lower cabinets
Checklist For Spacer Panels
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Leave 1.9 cm of space for each spacer panel during the design phase. Therefore, the total width of the cabinet increases by the amount of spacer panels used.
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Spacer panels can be installed in two ways: Firstly, 30 millimeters out from the front edge of the frame—spacer panels protrude beautifully from the surface of the cabinets, adding a personal touch to the overall look. Secondly, 21 millimeters out from the front edge of the frame—spacer panels are in the same plane as the doors and drawer fronts, creating a more subtle style.
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If you install the spacer panels protruding from the doors, choose cabinets with pull-out drawers or shelves behind the doors. With protruding spacer panels, hidden drawers cannot be installed behind the doors because the doors cannot open enough to allow the drawers behind the door to come out. If you want pull-out drawers behind the door, choose spacer panels that align with the doors. Read more about hidden mechanisms.
- Please note that the installation method of the spacer panels affects the depth of the end panels when ordering.
- If you choose your own color for the spacer panels for an additional fee of 200 €, please inform us of the color code.
Now you see our collection in a new light and can create a kitchen, wardrobe, or sideboard that suits you. See more inspiring pictures in the kitchen gallery, wardrobe gallery, and sideboard gallery.
After you have created your IKEA plan, you can add spacer panels to your shopping cart in our online store or together with our product specialists in our order and design service.
