Hello graph paper my old friend. (OK, it’s no Simon and Garfunkel.)

There are so many approaches to building a kitchen from scratch! Custom, semi-custom, off-the-shelf Ikea stuff… At least there are some standards I can count on. First, I (arbitrarily) designated each quarter inch square to be 6 inches. A counter top is 36″ from the floor. Base cabinets are 24″ deep. Wall cabinets are 12″ deep, unless… Unless they’re from Ikea and Ikea happens to be completely changing their cabinet system from Akurum to Sektion starting in February 2015! And that new system happens to have 15″ deep wall cabinets.

Hello eraser my old friend…