Ikea Besta Built-in Shelves

Hello everyone,

On Saturday I bought a Besta cabinet shelf, consisting of the 192cm corpus and three 64cm doors. The shelf is standing, but at the moment I am struggling with the correct installation of the two main shelves for the three compartments formed by the doors. I have the 36cm shelves and the Besta door fittings with push buttons.

The installation of the shelves is a bit confusing. If I see it correctly, there are three options: The easiest is simply placing the shelves using the included shelf supports. A bit more elaborate is the use of the holders screwed to the walls in the tall Besta corpus, which are supposed to prevent the walls from moving sideways.

Finally, the door fittings contain double-screwed brackets, whose use is specified in the corpus assembly instructions. These double-screwed brackets cause problems in two respects: First, they push the shelf about 1.5 cm forward, so that it aligns flush with the side walls at the front. That would be nice in itself because no gap to the door is created. However, these brackets cause an equally large gap at the back wall.

In addition, these brackets set the shelf "deeper." In a sketch of the assembly instructions, I believe it is intended that the cabinet door ends above the shelf (so that nothing can roll or slide down???). Spontaneously, however, I would have placed the shelves so that the two cabinet doors close about halfway on the shelf from below and above.

Can someone enlighten me? Am I even using the right shelves and fastening materials for this purpose? How did you install the shelves? How many mounting hole distances did you leave between the shelves?

Thank you in advance

Hello, at BESTA you can never have everything. The metal things as bottom supports are mainly intended for a bottom above a drawer. The bottom then finishes flush with the drawer front, to the price of the gap at the back. If the bottom is supposed to finish flush with the carcass between the doors, probably the only option is to mill new holes for the bottom supports in the bottom or to lay a second bottom (preferably at the appropriate depth from the wood cut at the hardware store) on the too low bottom.