How modular is IKEA METOD?

Hello Nörgli,

Actually, some of these things correspond to my planning, and even if you “only” save 20 euros, a) that’s one more piece of interior furnishing ( ) and b) I’m not a fan of throwing away unused components. Replacing walls and floors would also work out pretty much exactly in my case.

True......I always find that a challenge too.

For example with the bench: here I would want an 80-wide drawer, and that is not planned as such. That’s why this tinkering.

Sure, then 2 small ones are a pain........ you need 2x drawers and those are “expensive.”
2x 40x60 cost 94 euros. Veddinge doors 18 euros
1x 80x60 costs 55 euros. VEDDINGE door 13 euros.
That makes 44 euros more expensive plus the carcass was something with 17 euros as well.
And still you don’t have the large drawer.

And the HÖRDA shelves are nicer, but for me, they don’t match the rest of the building. The fixed shelf spacing doesn’t appeal to me either. (Especially since I’d probably have it next to an equally open cabinet and the differently thick walls would stand out even more.)

True, somehow in the middle between 2 glass cabinets........ but if there are OPEN cabinets next to them,
then that doesn’t work. It would work well, but for me, for example, that wouldn’t be right either.

I’ll think about your suggestions with the back panels again. Since I use drawers, I might not visit any at all, and the cabinets on the outside wall should remain free at the back anyway against mold.

Well then maybe open would be something anyway. Or for example, on the wall cabinets only the 60-wide back panel, then there is still air above and not so much wall covered.

Bye Sabine

I have another crafting question again...

Has anyone ever tried to equip two drawers with one front? For example, in an 80 cm wide and a 60 cm wide base cabinet standing next to each other, each with a 40 cm high drawer at the bottom, to connect them with a 140 cm front in such a way that both drawers are pulled out simultaneously? (With either one handle in the middle or two handles further outside.)

Of course, you would have to drill the holes yourself, but would it even be possible to connect them? I assume you would first have to insert the drawers into the cabinet so that it really fits in the end?

Edit: Something like this:

That is doable, even with the hideous handles. What is supposed to be the advantage of that?

Nothing against my fancy handles, hey!

The advantage would be that 80 60 looks dumb with the 40 60 40 drawers above. So it would be a purely visual decision and is just a quick idea to begin with...

40 - 60 - 40 would be visually okay, but 80 is naturally more space-efficient than 2 x 40.

For a BOBDÜNN front, the handles are still okay, but certainly not on a modern smooth VEDDINGE...

Now I really didn't think it through. If you have 40 - 60 - 40 carcasses, you can't install an 80 cm wide pull-out in the carcasses, or are different carcasses supposed to be stacked?