We’ve been getting quite a few requests for more details on how we undermounted our kitchen sink. So, we’ll be taking a short break from bath related posts to wrap up a few things in the kitchen 🙂
If you’re familiar with Ikea’s Domsjo sink, then you know how incredibly affordable it is when compared to other farmhouse style sinks on the market. Hello, under $150 with discount? Sign us up. That being said, one of the major drawbacks was that it’s an overmount sink (
). Bleh. We had an overmount sink in our previous home and on top of the aesthetic disadvantage, we also found that crumbs were always making their way into the seam, and clean up was completely dysfunctional. We love that an undermount sink makes everything seamless. Easy for wiping down the counters and no hidden spots for germs and food to collect. Plus, she’s gorge..
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The cabinet we chose to use, Akurum’s 23 7/8″ base cabinet for single bowl sink, is actually no different than what is recommended for the regular overmount installation of the sink. So, pretty easy there. However, we switched out the two standard door fronts for a 24″x18″ style that better fits the adjusted cabinet.
(Note that if you decide to go with the larger version of the Domsjo sink, these plans would obviously need some altering)
It’s important to set the base cabinet just as the others are throughout the kitchen prior to making any adjustments. This ensures that the cabinet and sink will sit level and line up with the adjacent base cabinets. Ok, now you can whip out the drill and jig saw 😉
One Project At A Time
We began by using a jigsaw to remove 3/4 inch (slightly more than the height of the sink lip) from the top of each side panel on the base cabinet. This allows room for the lip that extends on each side of the sink so it can sit snug beneath the countertop.
We then used a 1/8 inch drill bit to pre-drill the holes for the front and rear support braces. The braces are included with the sink, but the holes that come pre-drilled in the base cabinet no longer line up after dropping the sink height 3/4 inch. We also bumped the brace back slightly to allow for safe placement of the new pre-drilled holes. Placing them directly in the line of Ikea’s pre-drilled holes would provide all the necessary conditions for the wood to split. Install the braces as normal, substituting Ikea’s provided screws with 3/4 inch wood screws to fit the new openings.
Next up, placing the sink. She’s pretty heavy, weighing just over 70 lbs, so we’d definitely recommend two people for this step. Other than that, pretty self-explanatory. Put the sink in the cabinet, resting on top of the braces.
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Once the sink is in place, we began installing the middle mounting brackets. These are located on each side panel between the front and rear braces. We don’t have a picture for this step, but the brackets are included with the sink and were installed just as previously described for the front and rear braces. Again, we pre-drilled new holes and used wood screws to secure. Check.
Before moving onto the install of the plumbing you’ll want to ensure that everything is level and make adjustments as needed. Ricky likes to brag that he had everything level on the first try, aka the go-ahead for me to hand out more projects for my newly found carpenter. 😉 We’ll let him keep talking.
Now, onto the exterior of the cabinet. The two doors (12×24″) that are included with the base cabinet no longer fit after lowering the sink significantly. And because Ikea doesn’t offer replacement doors in a 12×18″ size allowing for two side by side doors, we opted to go with a single 24×18″ option instead. This size is the closest fit, with minimal filler pieces. Leading me to the final step… filler. Any wood piece could be used to fill the remaining space between the door and the bottom of the sink, but we chose to use the toe-kick intended for the base cabinets. Ikea sells these pieces in 8 foot length sections, which we used in several areas throughout the kitchen. Definitely worth purchasing if you’ll be DIYing an Ikea kitchen of your own.
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) but we are beyond thrilled with the result. Hopefully this tutorial was helpful for those of you looking to recreate the look. If I’ve left anything out or completely confused anyone just let me know and I’ll try to clear things up.
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We’re Ricky and Jessica, a husband and wife duo renovating homes in our hometown of Cincinnati, OH, while raising our little family of six. We have a hunger for projects with hidden potential, large or small, and love, love, love a good before and after (who doesn’t?). In 2007 we purchased our first home, where we began to learn the ins and outs of remodeling and discovered our love for houses. Three houses of our own, a flip, and four kids later, we’ve ditched the day jobs and committed to remodeling homes full time. Here you’ll find plenty of project tutorials, hopefully some inspiration, and whole lot of us making mistakes so you don’t have to. More about us.
How To Undermount Ikea's Domsjo Sink
Hazelwood Homes may contain some contextual affiliate links, in which we receive a small commission should a purchase be made through said link. We do not recommend products that we have not or would not purchase with our own money.Lately I have been sharing about our current diy kitchen remodel project in steps, from demo to prep work to installing ikea butcher block counters and today I get to share about installing our farmhouse sink. You guys, this sink is the bomb.com - (and yes I was teenager in the 90s.) But seriously, I really can't say anything bad about it. If you are in the market for a farmhouse sink no doubt you have looked at this one - its the domsjo sink from ikea. By far it is the best priced farmhouse sink for its size out there. Its such a great deal that we had to wait on a list for months to get one. So know up front your closet ikea may not have one in stock if you just randomly show up. Call before you go! Now to be clear, we have currently been using this sink for about 2 weeks so I can't speak on longevity - but still I love it.
For a little background (if you are just joining in) we decided recently to upgrade the majority of our kitchen - pretty much everything has been replaced besides our cabinets. This made installing counters and this sink a little different since they are from ikea and made to install really easily into their own (ikea) cabinets. But it can easily be done and we are living proof. It just took a little extra work.
The fist steps in this process was back in our demo days which involved removing the old plumbing and cutting out the area in our cabinets in which this sink was going to sit. Next, we cut our counters to size and cut in the notches for the sink. After that we secured our counters in place and we were ready for the sink to go in. So that brings us to the picture below - the mini beams.
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This sink is massive and heavy - no exaggeration- and needs really good support. If you look at the instructions from ikea you can see that the cabinets you buy from ikea have this support already built in. To make it work for us, Justin built two mini beams (one for each side of the sink) under the cabinet for it to rest on and to be secured to. Honestly, this was the most complicated part of the whole process...besides maybe the plumbing portion..but this is all about the pretty stuff right now.
After the sink was firmly in place the next thing we did was seal around it (not pictured). We used a caulk gun and some silicone based sealer around the edges of the sink. There are some great tutorials out there but basically we taped off the sink and counters with painters tape and ran the caulk down the crease, wiped with a damp cloth and removed the tape. I'm not going to lie I was pretty sure I was going to ruin the counters at this point but it all worked out. Just take my advice and have some damp cloths readily available.
We still need to fix the bit underneath the sink - its on our immediate to do list. I'm also seriously considering painting the lower cabinets a darker gray...to be continued.
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I am a believer that a little goes a long way and patience
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