Cabinet options

Cover panels and plinthsSide panels, filler pieces and plinths in the colour of your METOD fronts

New fronts don't finish an IKEA METOD kitchen on their own. The side of a cabinet, the strip under the base cabinets and the gap between cabinet and wall stay visible, and they look different from your doors.

That is why, besides doors and drawers, we make the parts that finish your kitchen: plinths at the bottom, and cover panels for a side, an open end, a panel up to the ceiling or a filler piece between cabinet and wall. You choose them in the same colours as your fronts, and we deliver them to the exact size.

Cover panels and filler pieces Plinths

Cover panels and filler pieces

A cover panel is a made-to-measure board without drilled holes. Use it for the side of a cabinet, an open end, a panel up to the ceiling or as a filler piece between cabinet and wall.

In the configurator you choose the type Extra panel and enter the length and the width: a length of 200 to 2790 mm and a width of 70 to 1300 mm. A drawing in the right proportions shows straight away. If the material has a wood grain, the grain always runs along the length of the panel.

Plinths

The plinth is the strip under your base cabinets. You set the width, the length along your kitchen, from 40 to 278 cm, and choose a height of 8 or 11 cm. We deliver the plinth to the exact size, without play. We band the plinth along its two long sides; the short ends are left unbanded.

If your kitchen runs along more than one wall, order a separate plinth for each wall. That way the joins end up where you want them, not wherever they happen to fall.

Good to know

Edge banding on loose panels

We edge-band a separate panel all round, on all four sides. If the shortest side is narrower than 97 mm, we band only the two long sides: the machine can't band an edge that narrow. You see which of the two applies in the configurator before you add the panel.

Measure on the spot

We make doors and drawer fronts 3 mm smaller than the size you enter, so there is room around them. Panels and plinths are not: you get them at exactly the size you enter. So measure a filler piece where it will go. Walls are rarely perfectly straight: measure at the top, middle and bottom, and use the smallest size.

Extend instead of a filler piece

A narrow strip above a tall cabinet, or a front that runs down over the plinth, can also be solved with the front itself. You can extend a door, corner door or dishwasher front by up to 20 cm above and/or below the cabinet, and a drawer front by up to 10 cm. Then there's no seam between front and panel. If the strip is wider, a made-to-measure panel is the solution.

Longer than 278 cm

A plinth is at most 278 cm long, a panel 279 cm. If your wall is longer, order two plinths and choose where the seam goes, for example below the line between two cabinets.

The grain follows the length

If your material has a wood grain, it runs along the size you enter as Length. For a side panel, that is the height. For a panel closing the gap above your cabinets, enter the size along the kitchen as the length, and the grain runs horizontally. A plinth always has the grain along its length.