Kitchen tips and ideas

Looking for ideas on how to conserve water and save money or optimize your kitchen storage? Need some guidance on how to care for your kitchen essentials or how to cook mouth-watering recipes using IKEA ingredients? It’s all here.

Planning your space | Style and refresh | Storage and organization | Light, sound and smart home | Health and sustainability | Safety | Guides | Recipes

Planning your space

A kitchen with white wood effect ENKÖPING doors and glass doors, plus brown walnut effect ENKÖPING doors and drawer fronts.

Kitchen layout ideas for the best workflow

A white/oak effect ENHET kitchen by a gray-tiled wall with a birch rail, two birch wall shelves and a white wall cabinet.

Maximizing kitchen space for more room to cook

A wall with a white NYMÅNE wall lamp. Office supplies hang from hooks and in NEREBY hemp containers attached to a birch rail.

You're 4 steps away from a two-in-one kitchen

A room with a white SUNNERSTA mini-kitchen, a red cart, TILLREDA kitchen appliances, a table with red chairs and a bike.

You're 4 steps away from a complete kitchen

Style and refresh

Potted plants in a window by a kitchen countertop, plus more plants in white hanging planters and black containers on rails.

3 ways to refresh the style of your kitchen

Two framed posters and NEREBY birch rails on a white wall, with kitchen utensils on white s-hooks and in hanging containers.

Ideas for a simple kitchen makeover

Storage and organization

Four pulled-out MAXIMERA kitchen drawers with various items in a cutlery tray, an adjustable organizer for drawer and boxes.

How to organize kitchen cabinets and drawers

A French door fridge/freezer with both doors open showing foods in containers, boxes, jars, resealable bags and pitchers.

Easy ways to organize your fridge

A SINARP kitchen with a table and chairs, and a HULTARP rail and hook hanging on the wall.

Hide some, show some

A wall-mounted KUNGSFORS kitchen storage series with glass jars with lids, white VARIERA storage boxes and hanging utensils.

How to get a more professional kitchen at home

Light, sound and smart home

A kitchen with wall cabinets with glass doors and lighting inside, plus pendant lamps over the countertop and extendable table.

How to set up your kitchen lighting

Health and sustainability

Rows of white SORTERA waste sorting bins with lids stacked on top of one another under a row of pine cabinets, plus a rug.

Tips and ideas for waste sorting in the kitchen

A VARDAGEN cook’s knife, a VÖRDA paring knife and some garlic on a bamboo butcher’s block, plus a bowl with mushrooms.

Cooking healthy meals and snacks is easier than you think

A tabletop mid-baking session – eggs, flour and utensils. Hands work doughs in white VISPAD mixing bowls and in a banneton.

Get the kids cooking and teach them healthy habits

An anthracite EKBACKEN countertop with a sink holding a gray GRUNDVATTNET washing bowl, microfiber cloths and accessories.

How to reduce food waste and save money in the kitchen

Safety

A matte anthracite kitchen with a white marble effect worktop, plus black rails and pictures in black frames on a yellow wall.

Kitchen safety and living with children

Guides

An open kitchen drawer with a black front, revealing kitchen utensils inside an UPPDATERA cutlery tray in light bamboo.

A guide to organized kitchen drawers

A VARDAGEN grill pan cooking broccoli on a black SÄRKLASSIG induction cooktop. There are kitchen utensils in the background.

A guide to induction cooktops’ clever features

A selection of VARDAGEN kitchen knives in various sizes laying on a dark-gray knife roll.

Knife guide – choose the right knife for your kitchen tasks

DINERA beige/white mugs are stacked on a worktop next to a stack of beige and gray/blue plates in various sizes.

Tableware and glassware material guide

A frying pan with a handle in stainless steel is standing on a cooktop cooking meatballs in sauce. A wooden spoon is on the side.

A guide to buying pots and pans

A chef’s knife in stainless steel is laying on top of a wooden chopping board next to a bigger chef’s knife.

How to care for your knife

Recipes

A grey-blue DINERA plate of SJÖRAPPORT salmon fillet with salad, sauce, GRÖNSAKSKAKA vegetable medallions and DRAGON cutlery.

A complete meal for less than you’d think

Two heart shaped VÅFFLOR waffles with salmon, cream cheese, dill and lettuce on a piece of fabric next to a fork.

Savory waffles with salmon and cream cheese

Three heart shaped VÅFFLOR waffles with shrimps, mayonnaise, seaweed pearls and dill on a plate with a kitchen towel.

Savory waffles with shrimps and seaweed pearls

Slices of salmon covered with a sprinkling of salt, pepper and dill on a gray plate. A gray napkin is beside the plate.

Chai salt

A glass of pink and white, beetroot and oat milk smoothie, with a white straw, topped with blueberries and coconut flakes.

Smoothie beetroot and oat milk

A white plate with a fork and two waffles with whipped sour cream and cloudberry jam. Powdered sugar is sprinkled on top.

Sweet waffles with cloudberry jam and whipped sour cream

A basket of rolls made with MÜSLI muesli on a breakfast table by a cup of coffee, orange juice and half a grapefruit.

Cold-fermented buns with muesli and salt flakes

A bowl lined with paper on a rustic wooden table, filled with toasted chai and chili chickpeas. A cup is nearby.

Chai and chili toasted chickpeas

Plant balls with quinoa salad in a pink bowl on a pink plate, which stands on a white and gray checked tea towel.

Plant balls with quinoa salad