![]() ![]() i was basically looking at it and saying well, don't need the bottom of the upper drawer, don't need the upper set of runners, don't really need the drawer sides, upper or lower because they're not used in the original hack, *do* need a full-height panel for the front, but we've got two half-size ones, just join 'em together. And as far as I can see you'll have a similar set of bits as this ible started with. Abandon one set of drawer runners (for next hack :D). ![]() ![]() Use two flat metal joining pieces to turn the two half-height drawer fronts into one full height one. As you don't really need the sides of the drawer(s) as such because all that bit is doing really, is bracing the front and back panels apart. Hey :) I haven't actually done this (yet!) but I was looking at the specs in the instructions on the website, and this is what I was thinking, very roughly. This turned the project into a $5 hack which I completed in about an hour.įollow along for the play-by-play! I made this nifty filing cubby insert at Techshop! I turned, instead, to Craigslist and luckily found someone selling a retired IKEA item, the single drawer insert. Also, it seems very easy to make the two slides slightly nonparallel, which means your drawer doesn’t slide. I also started to tally up the expenses for this little side project and drawer slides + wood + drawer slide mounting guide = ~$50, which seemed excessive. These are less common than their side mounted counterparts and finding a set that’s also sufficiently short was problematic. The dimensions for a standard hanging file folder a such that there’s not much wiggle room on the sides, meaning I would need bottom mount drawer slides (or so I thought). I knew I wanted a filling cubby to fit in my Expedit unit and to fill it with multicolored folders, I just didn’t know exactly how to do this.įirst Attempt I initially was going to build this little guy from scratch. My mom always color coded her filling system and that woman can always find exactly what she’s looking for, even in a pinch. Despite their widespread usage and clear dominance of the SF Bay Craigslist market, IKEA hasn’t developed a filling cubby for this popular system - actually, no one has. I has 5 cubbies down and across and since we live with limited storage space, this has been a useful addition to our apartment. Like many nomadic friends, we own one of the Expedit units from IKEA. ![]()
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