This design turns IKEA BESTA shelf frame (cz: 102.473.79) into chest of drawers enabling better organization and space utilization. The first two shallow sizes are especialy useful for organized strorage of small things such as tools and electronics.
Purchase material:
- 3 mm HDF - 58 x 39 cm for drawers
- 4 mm plywood - 34 x 39 cm for rails
Drawer:
- width 562 x depth 374 x height 53.5 mm
- 3 mm thick HDF
- tabs cut offset 0.05 mm
Files:
- drawers_562 x 374 x -0.5.dxf
- manufacturing data - all you need to make your drawers
- design.dxf
- parts and design features for various dimensions and tolerances
- gauges used to test shelf width and deph
- calculations.ods
- design and dimensions calculations spreadsheet
Upgrades from first model
full depth utilization
- Small space left in front of drawers for cardboard cover plate.
Cover plate could be fitted before foil wrapping and moving
- dividers
- drawer is divided to 3 compartments
- If you want drawer without dividers do not cut sockets.
Empty divider sockets greatly reduce strength of the drawer.
