Thread: I couldn't be bothered building drawers for my cabinets - alternative ideas?

Some good ideas there, Havabeer.

I also used steelbuilt office furniture - drawer units and 2-door cabinets (~2 m high). Offices often also totally replace furniture when they refurbish or when they move premises - landlords often stipulate "no old furniture". When this happens the stuff is really cheap as market is flooded. I even went to the extent of building a five drawer cabinet inside the base of a 2-door steel cabinet. MDF carcase, melamine drawers, pine drawer fronts for aesthetics.

The steel furniture was extremely functional. But I basically didn't like steel furniture and it has all now been replaced.

Also agree with comments on open shelves. Even tried that old trick of screwing some glass jar lids under a shelf. Got local hospital to save large nescafe jars (2 litre), screwed the metal lids under an overhead shelf and it worked great for a short period, everything visible and accessible. Then jars started getting fuller, and heavier; cross-threading occured and heavier jars are awkward to screw back in place. So they got left on bench and filled with dust - quickly. Jars have also gone. Smaller ones might have been better.

EDIT: Just realised the irony of what I just wrote. I am sitting at a 2.1 m desk that consists of a CTP top sitting on three x 2-drawer steelbuilt units. It has been my temporary desk since 1985.