How We Handled a Custom Dish Cupboard and a 100-Year-Old House

My husband is from Finland and we wanted a ‘dish drying cupboard’ installed in our Ikea kitchen. For some reason Ikea Canada doesn’t offer these options out of the box. Ikea Man was the only assembly service that was willing to make modifications (we provided the racks). I believe we paid a bit extra for this, but it was worth it! Dimitri and John worked a 12-hour day to install our small galley kitchen in a 100-year-old house — they managed to get everything level and even helped us work through some little glitches caused by plumbing and flooring and a mistake we made in our order. They were very conscientious about cleaning up the space and vacuumed and stacked boxes before they went to lunch or left for the day. They did have to come back to finish the job, mainly because Ikea sold us some irregular parts that had to be exchanged. The only small thing we realized later was that they installed the range hood too high — there is a regulation height in the instructions that our HVAC guy pointed out later.