ᐅ Installing an Ikea Maximera Drawer into a Different Brand Kitchen Cabinet
Created on: 19 Nov 2020 16:06
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Hi,
after realizing that our drawers don’t have inner drawers and the kitchen studio is quite slow when it comes to ordering just a small replacement part, I’m asking you:
- Has anyone ever installed a branded kitchen drawer like Nolte, Alno, or similar, with Maximera drawers? Unfortunately, Ikea doesn’t offer 90cm (35 inch) drawers, but I could upgrade our 60cm (24 inch) drawer. The internal dimension is 57cm (22.4 inch). According to the specs, the Maximera drawer is 65.4cm (25.7 inch) … so that’s about 6mm (0.24 inch) too large. I guess spacer strips could work, right?
- Plan B would be to order an original Nolte drawer from a kitchen studio that also sells online. However, they specify versions "before 2016" and "after 2016." Our kitchen is from 2013 … Who would measure the internal dimension of a new Nolte kitchen’s 60cm (24 inch) drawer for me?
- Plan C … this one is a bit crazy: has anyone tried fitting an 80cm (32 inch) Maximera drawer into a 90cm (35 inch) cabinet? Anyway, I’d be interested in any idea.
after realizing that our drawers don’t have inner drawers and the kitchen studio is quite slow when it comes to ordering just a small replacement part, I’m asking you:
- Has anyone ever installed a branded kitchen drawer like Nolte, Alno, or similar, with Maximera drawers? Unfortunately, Ikea doesn’t offer 90cm (35 inch) drawers, but I could upgrade our 60cm (24 inch) drawer. The internal dimension is 57cm (22.4 inch). According to the specs, the Maximera drawer is 65.4cm (25.7 inch) … so that’s about 6mm (0.24 inch) too large. I guess spacer strips could work, right?
- Plan B would be to order an original Nolte drawer from a kitchen studio that also sells online. However, they specify versions "before 2016" and "after 2016." Our kitchen is from 2013 … Who would measure the internal dimension of a new Nolte kitchen’s 60cm (24 inch) drawer for me?
- Plan C … this one is a bit crazy: has anyone tried fitting an 80cm (32 inch) Maximera drawer into a 90cm (35 inch) cabinet? Anyway, I’d be interested in any idea.
tomtom79 schrieb:
With your plan C, you would have to add 5cm (2 inches) to each side, which would look terrible.Yes, it would. Terrible. At first, you try some ideas, like attaching a board with a bracket above it, then the side rail on that, so the drawer is offset and there’s 10cm (4 inches) of free space on the side. But these cabinets don’t have any horizontal shelves inside where you could drill something.
Maybe someone with a Nolte kitchen can chime in with the interior cabinet measurements for the 60cm (24 inches) unit or the drawer width?!
evelinoz schrieb:
Nolte uses HettichGood to know!!evelinoz schrieb:
A 60cm (24 inches) cabinet interior is 56.5cm (22 inches),
and can you buy a Nolte drawer separately from Geisler?Exactly, that’s my plan. But they only have models from 2016 onward, and if you say the Nolte cabinet inside is 56.5cm (22 inches), then it’s 5mm (0.2 inches) less than one from before 2016... so the cheaper Ikea drawer would fit... although Ultrusta is currently not available... The 56.5cm (22 inches) confuses me now: mine is exactly 57cm (22.5 inches) ... maybe I just need to put on my glasses when measuring 😀
I could just give them a call 😉
Musketier schrieb:
Most furniture manufacturers (except IKEA) usually use standard parts, for example from Hettich. Have you checked there?I think I’ve been to their website. Is it possible that you have to configure everything yourself there?
Edit: No, I didn’t know Hettich until now.
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