Because my family and I were too busy during the fine decoration, we asked the cabinet company to design it by itself and signed it after reading the plan. At that time, the importance of kitchen storage and the importance of kitchen tools being placed nearby were not taken into account, so the cabinet drawers were only made in two floors, each of which was very high, and the space was slightly wasted. So, I had the idea of adding a drawer, but I just thought about it, because with the only knowledge reserve, I felt that I needed to throw away the original cupboard door and buy it again. I felt a little wasteful and let it go. ?
My kitchen area is only 3 square meters, which is really small for my family. The place circled below is the original double drawer. ?
The idea of transforming cabinets was always in my mind until I saw and collected the designs of two embedded drawers for personal use, and I suddenly realized that I had the idea of transforming. In fact, many cabinet brands may be able to do it, just because there is no IKEA in my city, I have never been to a cabinet store seriously, and my knowledge is insufficient, which leads to regret.
The installation was successful today, and I can't wait to share my experience with you and avoid detours.
1. Installation effect of built-in shallow pumping. ?
The pictures collected at that time came from @Minoz-selina and @ Yi Bu Xiao Xin. They made a very intuitive profile of the drawer. With these two photos, I have asked a treasure seller/after-sale cabinet/IKEA countless times. Finally, because IKEA wrote the most detailed size, I bought the shallow-mouth pump from IKEA. My original cabinet brand is "Siemens Berlin", not IKEA's, but it will not affect the transformation if the size is the same. ?
The picture below is a screenshot of IKEA official website cabinets. As you can see, there is also a separate door panel for shallow pumping, but it is not exposed. You can put it in a drawer and hide it behind the door panel.
In this way, a shallow drawer can be directly added to the original deep drawer without removing the front door panel. The material cost is not high, and the price of a drawer with similar height and track on a treasure is generally around 200 yuan.
2. Size measurement. ?
Common widths of standard tableware drawers in the market are 60cm and 90cm, and common depths are 60cm and 37cm (IKEA has the option of 37cm). ?
But here we're going to knock on the blackboard and draw the key points:
1. width refers to the width of the light plate, not the storage width inside the drawer. ?
So IKEA wrote a drawer suitable for 60cm width. In fact, the maximum width between the left and right ends in the cabinet cavity is about 56.4cm, and the drawer width is even smaller than this value. Only the decorative door panel exposed to the outside, that is, the lamp panel, is exactly 60cm.
2. The same depth refers to the dimension from the desktop, including the reserved depth when the tracks on both sides of the drawer are pulled out. ?
Pay attention to the comparison between the pull-out depth of the track and the pull-out depth of the original drawer when purchasing. Don't buy anything deeper than the original, then it won't drive to the maximum state.
Take the IKEA drawer I bought as an example. Model, size and price are as follows:
Masmai, drawer, model 902.75438+0 1.05, size 60*37, price 2 10 yuan.
Osta, drawer-type front panel, model 102.71.71,width 60, height10, price 40 yuan.
(As mentioned above, the size here refers to the size that "fits this board", not the actual width of the hand)
That is to say, in addition to buying drawers, IKEA products should also be equipped with a drawer front plate with a height of 10cm. ?
PS:
About other styles of drawers:
I saw another drawer with a height of 10cm on the cabinet DIY page of IKEA official website homepage.
Favara is 60 wide and 37,902.38+00.73 deep.
Favara, width 60, depth 60,702.38+00.74.
Call IKEA customer service. Masmai and Fuwala, two shallow drawers with a height of 10cm look so similar. What's the actual difference? Customer service means that the former has a long warranty period and the maximum depth of the two drawers is different.
About other styles of front door panels:
The front door panel of shallow drawer with the height of 10cm has other options besides the white color of Osta. For example, I like the Bai La wood grain of Askell pine below, which was also collected at that time. It looks the same size, so it should be faked. In the DIY interface of IKEA official website cabinets, there are many other styles that can be combined by yourself (you can find many spare parts codes that official website doesn't have! ) or IKEA store to find out. ?
There is no IKEA in my city, so I can't go to the site to choose. I send an email to the customer service, and then they will call back to answer. The service is still good. The customer service also asked someone to help me go to the store and measure the internal width of the cavity, which is 56.4. I confirmed that the error was only 2 mm from my home, and my bold guess did not affect the installation, so I placed an order.
Three. Determination of installation position. ?
The number of drawers has been changed from two to three. Most people probably want to install shallow drawers on the upper floor, because chopsticks are more convenient to take and use. ?
I also want to install it on the upper floor, but after I bought it, I found that the extra space in the upper drawer is shorter than that in the lower drawer, which will be interfered by the gas pipe with the gas stove on it and cannot be installed very high. So it can only be put in the lower drawer, and you need to bend over when you take it. ? The picture below is a picture of my upper drawer. It can be seen that part of the gas stove occupies a certain height. ?
So here is the blackboard again: friends who really want to put the shallow pump on the first floor, remember to check the space above the first floor of their cabinets in advance.
Four. Installation. ?
I really can't handle the installation. It is easy to assemble drawers, but it is difficult to locate drawer rails on both sides of the original cabinet. I tried it with my family at home. I think it is better for professional people to do professional things, so I have to leave some money for others to earn. There is no IKEA in the local area. When I bought Balenciaga cabinets, I contacted the seller and spent 200 yuan on the door-to-door fee, so that the after-sales person could help me install them.
IKEA is equipped with six screws, three on each side, to fix the slide rails on both sides. IKEA installed the slide rail with 1 screws, with two screws on the back. I didn't use IKEA screws in the actual installation, but the installer helped me install four screws, hoping it would be more stable. ?
Verb (abbreviation for verb) reconstructs the storage space.
earlier times
The picture below shows the first drawer before the renovation. Because vegetables, bowls, knives and forks are stored at the same time, the storage rate is not high. ?
? After ...
Add a shallow drawer in the second drawer:?
Side:?
Now the dishes on the first floor of the cabinet drawer are stacked, which makes rational use of the vertical space. Then move the knife, fork and spoon to the second tableware layer to make room, and the cold baking tray that can't be put down at first will have a place to store it:
After the renovation, I immediately had a kitchen tool drawer and turned around happily. ? The kitchen tools/eggbeaters/stir-fry sticks that were originally put in the sideboard can be put down. It is said that the golden kitchen and silver bathroom are the most convenient places under the stove, and it is more convenient to pick up after renovation.
The following figure shows an extra drawer for storing knives, forks, spoons and kitchen tools:
The picture below shows the third floor with pots and pans inside:
When the whole installation is completed, 450 yuan will be finished. Drawer 265438 yuan +00 yuan+panel 40 yuan+door-to-door fee 200 yuan, and the storage area under the stove is increased by half a square meter?
Thank you for reading. It can be seen that the last paragraph is either true love or someone who really wants to improve the storage space.
Regrets in difficult times are more or less inevitable. For a more convenient life, we should not be afraid of tossing and turning. I hope this experience can help everyone.
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