You can only visualize so much when trying to design your kitchen on grid paper. As you are looking top down only, you still need a fair bit of imagination to realise the front elevations.

Luckily for you, Ikea has a free kitchen design software package that you can download from IKEA's interactive kitchen guide. The only catch is that it only has IKEA cabinets in its kitchen library. The kitchen planner will show your kitchen in 3D, plan view and even elevations. See your new kitchen on the screen before you see it in reality, with the IKEA kitchen planner.

The planning tool lets you move in a whole new kitchen without getting out of your chair. Drag and drop pieces into a layout, view them in a 3-D view, try different colors, print your design, and see the total cost of your new kitchen from IKEA.

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Instructions for dowloading and installing: ***Please note if you already have the kitchen planner installed on your PC, you will need to uninstall that version before downloading the new 2004 version.

   1. If you already have a version of the kitchen planner installed on your PC, you must uninstall it before installing the new version. You can do this by going to your start menu and then selecting the IKEA planner option and then choose "uninstall."
   2. When prompted, save this program to your computer.
   3. Browse to the installer and double-click to begin installation.
   4. Follow the prompts to set up and run the program. Note: you may first be asked to download an additional program called DirectX in order to install this program. You can find this program by clicking on the button below.

The IKEA Kitchen Planner, helps you to plan a new kitchen.

The planning help from the well known furniture house, IKEA Kitchen planner, can help if you are planning a new kitchen. You can drag and drop kitchen elements of your choice from the entire kitchen set from IKEA and view the result in a 3D-view. The design can be printed so that you can take it along during your next shopping trip to the furniture retailer.

Troubleshooting:

Having problems with your download? Here are some common problems we might be able to help with. Get an error message when trying to download the setup program:If you have an early version of Windows such as Windows 98, you may need to install DirectX. This is Microsoft program that helps install and run the Kitchen planner tool. Click the link below to download this program, then run the IKEA Home Planner installation again. Only part of the installation program downloads:You may be experiencing traffic on our site.Try to download the program again.
Microsoft DirectX Downloads
Minimum System requirements:
PC running Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, or XP Pentium II processor with at least 128 MB of RAM, 30 MB of free hard drive space, 16 MB of Video RAM with 1024 x 768 minimum screen resolution (XGA) and 16 bit color.

Download from this link: 

http://download.chip.eu/en/IKEA-Kitchen-planner-2007.1_102794.html