Great looking kitchen at IKEA-Sunrise, Florida

One of our favorite kitchen, we’ve seen at IKEA-Sunrise showroom is kind of an apartment kitchen or also a perfect kitchen for a house, where still a bigger table would be needed, if the family is about 4 or more members.

At the first look the kitchen setting looks elegant, contemporary, well chosen in materials, colors and accessories and leaves an impression of a well rounded, stylish kitchen.

Ädel-fronts in Birch, medium brown with Akurum-cabinets has been used, to design an L-shaped kitchen with a wall attached island. This version has a toe kick and stainless steel pulls in different length.

Sitting right there, where the cooking has it’s place is not only a terrific idea, but also practically in terms of short ways and faster accomplishments preparing a meal. The integrated *Ceran cook top allows to serve right from the stove onto plates without any moving and is also meant to hold warm the meal for a while.

Looking a little closer at the particular spot, efficiency is the word, is hitting the target. Imagine you would be the person is in charge of a meal. Besides having to move to the refrigerator, everything else is just on the same place.

Washing, preparing, cooking, serving even set up the table, you don’t have to move at all. Everything is around you and reachable with the length of an arm.

Salt, pepper, olive oil etc. has it’s place on top of the hood. Also a great idea is the wall board at the end of island, where even more space is available for storage and/or decoration using stainless steel shelves *Ekby Mossby.

Pans and pots you will store in the base cabinets right underneath stove, dishes and cutlery in the cabinets beneath and a complete pantry finds space in the tall cabinet.

One thing looks really unusual, are those two windows in the back splash area above the sink cabinet. We have never seen a situation like this. On the other hand, it makes the look complete to have there something. Instead of the windows, we would take tempered glass doors for the wall cabinets above sink cabinet and would choose lighting and glass shelves inside. This will make another great impression for the entire setup.

Also we would like to change the dishwasher to the left hand side of sink cabinet to make this place even more efficient.

The crown on top of the cabinets could have another one or even two layers, to have a more remarkable detail at cabinets end.

We also want to mention the great choice of tiles, which are not sold at IKEA, but nevertheless are very well chosen by IKEA designer Danuta Kilian. We talked to her and she promised to tell the source of tiles if ask for.

Look at the great choice of floor tiles Brown wall tiles, golden shimmering.

Stylish and cozy leather armchairs

Looking for a cozy upholstered armchair with good support? Check out VRETA.

It seems to be a brand new item in the IKEA Sunrise (FL) showroom and not shown in the catalog. If you like red leather, this one is a true beauty with a timeless design. It's a quality chair through and through and will fit in every living space you can imagine.

Spice up your group of seats and/or couches by bringing in some bold color.

The chair comes with a 10 year warranty. $549 for the swivel chair and $479 for the normal one with legs. It does not really match the IKEA price level so we hope they will find a way to get the price down a little. Visit IKEA.com and search for VRETA to see the entire collection of sofas, love seats, sofa beds, chairs and footstool. Let's get comfortable now!

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Another very good looking chair with a timeless design is the black club chair TULLSTA. Black soft leather makes this armchair a cozy solution for a bar, waiting room, or having one or two at home around the sofa. The wooden legs make this seat looking a little cheap. By either staining the current legs to a darker wood or even replacing them with stainless steel or chrome legs, you can easily upgrade the look.

At a price of $199 it's affordable and great looking. We could not find the TULLSTA club chair in the catalog but you can order online at IKEA.com. The chair is available in black or white leather.

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Anybody has those chairs at home and could send us a photo, how you decorated the chair into your living space. Just send a quick note and a picture.

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The IKEA Stores around the world, usually have the best designed sample rooms with the most beautiful, sometimes fancy, some times elegant, decorations in their room setups. The show rooms, their setup, the decorations are always made to show *real life* and are changing more often over the year, to seasonal and special events, just to show the new furniture or new trends and items in design and decoration. The catalog also provides great ideas for setting up a room, but changes only every year with the new catalog.

Where ever we cross an IKEA Store, we usually stop and take the time to join the store and take some pictures, to provide those design- and decoration ideas right here, right to you. So you will explore ideas, you would never know about, because the particular store is just out of your reach. At this point we want to encourage you, to do just the same like we do. If you plan to visit an IKEA Store somewhere in the world, don’t forget your camera and show us your favorite room settings or your most preferred decorations. Tell us where you have seen the great setup and let us know how much it cost at your local IKEA Store. There are always regional differences in the stores of Europe or United States or Australia for instance. This is how we help each other to make our homes even more beautiful and you can be sure to get a nice comment for your taste in decoration and your great photos. By the way, not all of us are able to get to an IKEA Store, for some health reasons. These people will just love you, for bringing your sight of an IKEA-Store into their lives and their homes.

We just love IKEA Stores, their simplicity and their quality and their friendly and helpful staff. So, let’s have some fun now by looking to the IKEA-Store in Sunrise, Florida. The store has something to offer after remodeling of half of the entire show room, which is in total about 50 room setups and 3 complete homes. But especially the kitchen area is all new now and has been completed recently in September 2010.