Kitchen tips and ideas

Looking for tips and ideas for optimising your kitchen storage or how to conserve water and save money? 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 organisation | Light, sound and smart home | Health and sustainability | Safety | Guides | Recipes

Planning your space

A kitchen with white STENSUND drawer fronts and glass doors, oak effect worktops and a white sink bowl with visible front.

Kitchen layout ideas for the best workflow

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

Maximising kitchen space for more room to cook

Style and refresh

Potted plants in a window by a kitchen worktop, 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 organisation

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

How to organise kitchen cabinets and drawers

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

Easy ways to organise 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

A kitchen with white METOD base cabinets and MAXIMERA interiors, an EKBACKEN worktop and two NISSAFORS trolleys.

How to make a shared kitchen feel like your own

Light, sound and smart home

A kitchen with wall cabinets with glass doors and lighting inside, plus pendant lamps over the worktop 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 worktop with a sink holding a grey GRUNDVATTNET washing-up bowl, microfiber cloths and accessories.

How to reduce food waste and save money in the kitchen

Safety

A matt dark beige 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 organised kitchen drawers

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

Knife guide – choose the right knife for your kitchen tasks

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 plate of SJÖRAPPORT salmon fillet with salad, sauce, GRÖNSAKSKAKA vegetable medallions and DRAGON cutlery.

A complete meal for less than you’d think

A pan with mince balls, made from VÄRLDSKLOK plant-based mince, in tomato sauce and an oven tray with roasted potatoes.

Greek plant-based mince balls in tomato sauce

A bowl with pasta Bolognese made from VÄRLDSKLOK plant mince, with fresh basil and grated parmesan, on a kitchen towel.

Plant-based Bolognese, Italian style

A white china bowl of HJÄLTEROLL porridge and berries with a spoon in it, on top of a white napkin, beside a metal saucepan.

Porridge flavoured with blueberries

Slices of salmon covered with a sprinkling of salt, pepper and dill on a grey plate. A grey 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 knife and fork about to dig into a plate of meatloaf, sliced cucumbers, lingonberries, cream sauce and mashed potatoes.

Plant-based mince loaf with mashed potatoes and classic Swedish sides

A frying pan with taco mince made from VÄRLDSKLOK plant mince next to plates and bowls with Pico de Gallo and tortillas.

Plant-based tacos with Pico de Gallo

A burger, made from VÄRLDSKLOK plant mince, with cucumber, red onion, lettuce, tomato, sprouts and mayonnaise.

Juicy plant-based burgers

A baking tin containing cooked HJÄLTEROLL porridge by a white plate with a slice of porridge and a dollop of yoghurt on it.

Oven-baked porridge with hazelnuts, apple, cardamom and cinnamon

A basket of rolls made with HJÄLTEROLL 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 chilli chickpeas. A cup is nearby.

Chai and chilli toasted chickpeas

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

Plant balls with quinoa salad