IKEA Metod wall cabinets for the home office

Hello everyone,

actually this theoretically doesn’t belong here – but since kitchen cabinets are being used, I’m trying my luck here.

We have noticed that we lack storage space in the office – unfortunately my wife still needs a lot of Leitz binders for work (over 80 pieces). Therefore, we need more space.

Our study is 3.82m long and the niche at the top is about 1.82cm. We definitely want a closed system with doors – so, for example, Billy is out. Besta as well, as the quality apparently leaves much to be desired nowadays.

I am attaching my plan below once with the Metod corner cabinet and once without. My wife thinks that the corner cabinet might look a bit bulky. What do you think? On the short side there will be a worktop installed on which three 60-wide units will be placed, and double sockets will be retrofitted on the left and right. The printer and other stuff will stand there – however, the niche is overall 70cm high. It would be better to use 100cm high wall cabinets as below. However, since we have two height-adjustable desks on the long side, that wouldn’t fit anymore because when raising them, my monitor would hit the wall cabinet.

On the left I have a total of 5 x 60-wide Metod units at 80cm height, then the corner cabinet, then 2 x 40-wide and 1 x 30-wide. That looks the calmest to me. The plan without the corner cabinet looks very restless in my opinion. Besides, we want as few doors as possible.

Then one more question specifically about Ikea: Are there lower cover panels at IKEA where you can directly integrate an LED lighting? When I sit at the desk and constantly see the screws from below, I get plaque. I saw something like this in green color in the showroom over the weekend – but now I can’t find anything anymore. Anyone have an idea? And do you actually use the side cover panels for below?

You can forget about the windows/openings on the right and bottom – there is only a wall including the TV on the right and the windows come at the bottom. Actually, this L-shape is the space available.

Looking forward to your tips.

Here is a picture of the floor plan.

Hm .. so the floor plan in the second post and the floor plan view in the first post are not oriented the same but one is on top, the other on bottom, so rotated 180°?

It's all 40 cm deep - right?

I would definitely prefer this version:


The other corner cabinet is really disturbing in the view.

But in general ... make sure to have good fastening, because folders filled with paper are not exactly light.

Take a look at the Platsa series. I am currently browsing through certain storage systems, and a group praised how individual and well you can assemble the individual parts. They are also supposed to hold folders well. However, on the Ikea site, they have received some bad reviews.

Hm .. so the floor plan in the second post and the floor plan view in the first post are not aligned identically but once at the top, once at the bottom, so rotated 180°?

It’s all 40 cm deep - right?

prefer. The other corner cabinet is very disturbing in the view.

But in general ... pay attention to good mounting, because binders filled with paper are not exactly light.

Exactly… all 40 cm deep and the floor plan is indeed rotated. Thanks for your note. For mounting there is the practical rail with Metod, on which everything is then hung.

Take a look at the Platsa series. I am also currently browsing certain storage systems, and one group raved about how individual and well you can combine the parts. They are also supposed to hold binders well. However, on the Ikea site they have received some bad reviews.

We have Platsa in the bedroom - unfortunately I do not like the quality at all. Significantly worse than Metod. But thanks for the tip.