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A selection of our work.

From a simple PAX on a Friday evening to a complete IKEA kitchen in two days. Below are six jobs the way they actually ran: what got in the way, which decision was made on the floor, and how the work was handed over. No polished showroom, just the job as a fitter would retell it.

Fully assembled cooking island with worktop cut to size and plinths finished

Kitchen · Amsterdam

Complete IKEA METOD kitchen

Two days, one kitchen, and a floor that dropped a good two centimetres from the door to the window. The suspension rail was therefore levelled across the full wall first, rather than measured up from the floor; every wall cabinet hangs off that single line. The base units were then adjusted one by one on their feet until the worktop sat flat. The hardest point was the corner, where a pipe ran along the wall: that cabinet was brought forward by a few millimetres and the worktop cut down to suit, instead of trying to bury the pipe. MAXIMERA drawers soft-close tested, plinths and bases cut to size, tiled edge finished cleanly.

IKEA PAX wall combination anchored flush against the wall

Wardrobe · Utrecht

PAX walk-in wardrobes side by side

A wall full of PAX is not a row of separate wardrobes but one line that has to be right. The floor fell away here, so each frame was levelled on its own feet first and only then bolted to its neighbour; do it the other way round and the top edge drifts from unit to unit, which shows up immediately in the doors. The frames are anchored to the wall with fixings that suit that type of masonry. The doors were then adjusted until the gap stayed even across the full width: in height, in depth and sideways. The packaging left with us.

Business space with long tables and chairs, assembled at scale and aligned

Office · Rotterdam

Office fit-out built up in full

In an office it is the position of the sockets that dictates the layout, not the number of desks. The connection points here sat along one side of the room, so the workstations were set out in rows working towards them, with a single cable tray per row. The desktops were levelled against one another, because desks standing side by side reveal every centimetre of difference. The chairs were unpacked, set to seat height and slid into place, so nothing had to come out of a box on the first working day.

Wall-hung IKEA BESTÅ TV unit in a living room

TV unit · Eindhoven

BESTÅ wall combination floated to the wall

Hanging a unit clear of the floor means the wall carries all of the weight, so the first job was finding out what we were dealing with. Behind the plaster sat sand-lime brick rather than plasterboard, and that calls for different fixings than the screws supplied in the box; those were swapped for hardware with a higher load rating. Before any drilling, the wall was scanned with a cable detector, because a socket sat just below the position of the unit. The cables now run through the back panel towards that point, the push-open flaps were adjusted until they all click open the same distance, and nothing is left standing on the floor beneath.

MALM bed with wooden frame in a minimal bedroom

Bed · The Hague

MALM beds with slatted bases

Several beds at one address is mostly a question of sequence. They were all built the same way and in the same order, in the room where they had to end up, so that no assembled bed had to pass through a door frame. On a MALM the difference between solid and squeaking sits in the centre rail and the bolts: those were only tightened once the frame stood square, and were checked again after the slatted base went in. Cardboard and polystyrene were folded flat and taken away.

Hülsta wall system in a furnished living room, assembled per the manufacturer's manual

Wardrobe · Groningen

PAX wardrobe wall with panel doors

A wall full of PAX is not a row of separate wardrobes but one line that has to be right. The floor fell away here, so each frame was levelled on its own feet first and only then bolted to its neighbour; do it the other way round and the top edge drifts from unit to unit, which shows up immediately in the doors. The frames are anchored to the wall with fixings that suit that type of masonry. The doors were then adjusted until the gap stayed even across the full width: in height, in depth and sideways. The packaging left with us.

Our work

Examples of our assembly work.

An impression of the kind of assembly work we do across the Netherlands, from Amsterdam and Utrecht to Rotterdam, Eindhoven and The Hague. Kitchens, wardrobe walls, beds, TV units and office workstations, all photographed on the day itself, with the toolbox just out of frame.

  • Completed matte-black kitchen with a white worktop, island with sink and built-in hob
  • Cream kitchen during assembly: tall units with built-in ovens in place, worktop fitted, assembly manual on the counter
  • Completed handleless greige kitchen with a marble-look worktop and splashback, tall unit run with built-in oven
  • Close-up of an assembled kitchen with base and wall cabinets, worktop and plinths
  • Fully assembled cooking island with worktop cut to size and plinths finished
  • Finished kitchen installation — cabinets level and plinths cut to size
  • Worktop cut to size and sealed — final step of a complete kitchen install
  • Cooking island with worktop cut to size and plinths neatly finished
  • Frames of a PAX wardrobe levelled before the doors are set in the track
  • PAX wardrobe during assembly day, frames just standing and doors ready to be set
  • PAX wall combination anchored flush against the wall in a bright interior
  • IKEA PAX wall combination anchored flush against the wall
  • Bedroom with finished PAX wardrobe and plinths cut to size
  • After photo of an assembled wardrobe — set cleanly and anchored level
  • Close-up of an assembled sliding-door wardrobe in a Dutch interior
  • Sliding-door wardrobe with doors set in the track and plinths cut to size
  • Close-up of an assembled sliding-door wardrobe in a Dutch interior
  • Bedroom with an assembled bed and slatted base in a Dutch interior
  • Bedroom with finished bed, slatted base and storage drawer adjusted
  • Finished bed installation — craft you'll sleep soundly on
  • Assembled children's bed in a bright bedroom — frame level and slatted base fitted to size
  • Living room with wall-hung TV unit, mounted and level
  • Living room with TV unit mounted wall-hung
  • BESTÅ TV unit during assembly, frames level

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