Furniture bending. Ideas on how to use existing furniture as

HansRL · Joined: Nov 17, 2012 Posts: 10 Location: Norway

Furniture bending. Ideas on how to use existing furniture as DIY modular cabinet.

My daughter just cried out upstairs. Part of her book shelves had felled over. When sorting out the mess after the accident I came to realize that the Benno DVD/CD shelf from Ikea does not have to stand up. Thinking about it I remembered seeing someone using these shelves laying down in a place where the height up to the roof didn’t allow for it to stand up.

Laying down the inner height of the Benno is 16cm. With very little effort one can saw of 3cm from the top and bottom shelf (now left and right panel) and viola, one have a 3U rack cabinet approx. 378HP long (189cm).
One could cut it in half for stacking, or use the leftovers as stand for the cabinet.

As I’ve never had an original idea in my life it would be fun if someone would post pictures and tell us what experience they have with Benno and other furnitures.

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PHOBoS · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 4:15 am Post subject:

I guess the shelves can be taken out, right ? nice one. Very Happy

Ikea also has/had some things that are great for 19" rackmounted stuff (examples)

o, and does this count ? Wink

Danno Gee Ray · Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 1339 Location: Telford, PA USA

Some of us were also using the RAST end tables as 19" racks.
You got 6U on the top section and 2U underneath.

HansRL · Joined: Nov 17, 2012 Posts: 10 Location: Norway