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We used Ikea when we suite-ed our walkout basement for my parents. We had some estimates from typical kitchen guys too and one said he often uses Ikea cabinets for his stuff rather than building his own boxes. He said it was cheaper to buy an Ikea box than buying the materials to build his own box let alone the cost of labour. Then he'd put on his own doors and stuff. I thought that was interesting.

My dad did the install except for the countertop so I can't really comment on the install cost, but the cabinets themselves are pretty good value IMO. Just be very careful with the planning and layout. Though if you get someone to install them maybe they can help plan where their experience would probably be worth a ton.

My biggest issue was stock.. Some stuff was in store and you could pick it up. Some stuff only showed up for delivery so had to purchase that separately. And the rest wasn't available at either and they will have no idea as to when it might be available again. Could be tomorrow, could be in a month, could be never. Made it really difficult to plan since almost 2/3 of our kitchen wasn't in stock.

We ended up ordering for pickup from Edmonton where they had tons of stock and then going up there with a trailer to pick it up. Why they can't shift stock from store to store is beyond me.

Mind you they don't even know what their own site says or means. I was trying to order a few brown PAX closet organizers and got everything except some shelves. They said "don't worry it'll be back in stock soon". Their site said "Last chance" or something and I eventually figured out that meant discontinued, but two different customer service people swore up and down that Last Chance didn't mean discontinued (even after I linked them the page that said it) and said I should be able to get my shelves soon.

I ended up getting the last few shelves larger and cut them down to size :/