ᐅ IKEA Corner Cabinet Drawers Despite Tight Corner Space

If you want to place two cabinets at a corner, you should use spacer strips between them to ensure that the doors or drawers can open smoothly. The same applies to a straight corner base cabinet.

However, our country is not very large, and sometimes kitchens are very small where every centimeter (inch) counts. So, I couldn’t install the corner cabinet with the recommended spacing. With the door and the corner cabinet fittings, everything still worked fine, but when I replaced the corner pull-out mechanism with drawers, I had to come up with a solution.
Problem:

Solution:
I attached a board to the drawer, into which I installed two ball-bearing slides. I then attached the front panel to these. This way, the front can now be slid to the side:

Since ball-bearing slides are not designed to withstand forces perpendicular to their direction of movement, I also installed a guide for stabilization. This consists of an aluminum angle profile and a U-profile, into which I mounted ball bearings.

With little effort, this pull-out solution allows for an efficient use of space at a low cost.

Very cool! Great idea!

Creative minds like this are missing in IKEA development!

Best regards

Nayla_1068

Very nicely solved. The next step would be a guide system that forces the front panel to move sideways as soon as the extension is pulled out a bit...

Best regards,
IKEA-Freund

Thanks to both of you. I originally planned a track system (that's the term I just learned ), but then decided against it because this way I can slide the front to the side as far as needed.

Otherwise, it might be worth mentioning that if you only install two standard pull-out cabinets, it would be easier to choose a 50cm (20 inch) cabinet instead of a 60cm (24 inch) one. However, with METOD there are only 40cm (16 inch) and 60cm (24 inch) base cabinets available, so that would result in a significant loss of space.