Plus, itrsquo;s easy to update an IKEA kitchen down the line: ldquo;As you grow and as your wallet grows, you can always add to the ,rdquo; says IKEA Field Interior Design Leader Barry Reidy. ldquo;Our interior can be tweaked and changed according to your needs After as you progress in life.rdquo; So, you've seen our posts on IKEA hacks for storage, small space storage and big furniture IKEA hacks, and now we're looking at IKEA and affordable kitchen hacks. But confident DIYers have tackled the job successfully. Michelle Bingham, a graphic designer in San Ramon, California, and her husband have done IKEA kitchens in their last two homes. “IKEA instructions are a bit lacking in info, pieces aren’t labeled and sometimes the illustrations aren’t that helpful,” she says. “You really have to work within the IKEA sizes and it is tricky trying to figure out what can fit and where it can fit, we even retrofitted items to finish off things nicely.” When they did their second kitchen, “we knew what we were in for and felt comfortable assembling everything ourselves."