After looking online and in the Ikea catalog, I set out to buy their kitchen island to use as a laundry folding table. Now it takes two hours to get to the closest Ikea, so when I got there and the kitchen island I thought I was getting, was not actually set up the way I expected was disappointing. So, I set out wandering around the store in the hopes of finding something I could use.
I found the Stenstorp kitchen cart, as seen below. And bonus, at the time it was on sale with the Ikea family card, yea!
See the cart on the Ikea website.
Heading over to the laundry department, I grabbed a Blaska laundry basket, and it is a perfect fit for the shelves on the cart.
See the laundry baskets here.
We loaded up, and headed home, then I proceeded to put the carts together, minus the tops. I don't
have pictures of the process unfortunately. But, here is where we drilled holes into the legs and used
long bolts to connect the two together.
And then since the tops are not predrilled we just butted them together and drilled where it lined up. We had to off set the center line some, and we haven't treated the top because I was afraid of it getting on the clothes. I will probably stain it eventually, and will post an update photo when I do.
So, you may have noticed in the pictures that the countertops are not the same. I can tell you that I
was NOT pleased about this. When you get this cart at the store in Pittsburgh you have to go to the
warehouse to pick up the boxes, and who would have thought that they would have even made different ones? Well since I did not discover the difference until I had the second base built, (Ugh) I would have had to take it apart, box it back up, and drive two hours to exchange it; then drive two hours back after getting a new one and making sure it had the right top. Well needless to say, we kept them, and now if they are not covered in laundry it is a talking point.
Here is the finished product! Very functional if I do say so myself.
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