A wide span with a heavy laden clothes rod may not hold up over time. Not saying particleboard is a bad choice but you need to design within its limitations. Particleboard, whether PAX or CWS, is not structurally as strong as plywood. Something to consider is the WEIGHT of clothes for the closet. Cabinet boxes have sliding dovetails joints. They use Blumotion drawer glides, Blum 6-way door hinges. A typical cabinet takes about 30 minutes to assemble with glue and a finish nail gun, an easy DIY or have a handyman assemble and install. You can also get a full length utility closet and install one or two clothes rods for full length or half length hanging clothes. For example, they have some with three drawers at the bottom and BUTT doors at the top, so you can access undies, socks, etc., without having to open a door and pull out a drawer. You can pick and choose among different types of cabinets. Picking paint grade hard maple is a good price point. You can pick from several wood species for faceframes and doors. These are completely customizable to 1/16" of an inch for height, width or depth. You can have the cabinets made of plywood (I would upgrade to flush sides for 3/4" sides) or particleboard (like PAX). You can buy them prefinished or save about 20% by getting them unfinished which would make it easier to paint to match your walls or a contrasting. Conestoga Wood Specialties, a high end RTA cabinet manufacturer, has tall cabinets (pantries, linen closets, etc.) available in a huge array of styles. If they really were custom for IKEA I think that Blum would have badged them as "Blum for IKEA" just like Whirlpool and Electrolux do for their appliances.Īnd if you try to assemble parts from Ikea and Blum parts from the cabinet supply store, they fit perfectly (glides, sides, backs, bottoms, orgaline accessoires, etc). The slides you buy at IKEA are engraved "Blum Tandembox" or "Blum Tandembox Plus Blumotion", depending on the model. Most cabinet manufacturers use Tandembox. There is low-end Blum (metabox), mid-range blum (tandembox/tandembox plus), high-end blum (intivo/antaro) too. Sure there is low end and high end Grohe, but a given model is the same wherever you purchase it. In Europe we have a similar urban legend which says "Grohe at the home improvement centers is not the same as Grohe from the plumbers supply stores." But when you call Grohe to purchase parts they do not ask you where you purchased your faucet. I honestly think that "Blum IKEA is manufactured at lower standards" is an urban legend set up by Blum trade agents to justify the huge pricing difference. What do you think, would this be MUCH more expensive than ikea? Other thoughts? I am wondering if he shouldn't also just make the cabinet frames also out of bamboo plywood if I don't go the Ikea route. He has worked with Blum products before, but not Ikea. I wouldn't be doing the assembly myself, but would be hiring a handyman skilled in cabinetry, but he is not a professional cabinet maker. ![]() So, it's not standard for ikea cabinets, yet not that difficult to customize with a bit of hacking. In the 18" unit I'd like an interior drawer/ pullout in the middle drawer section. On the other side I want both the 18" and the 36" units to have the 3-drawer configuration, for pots in the two deep drawers and utensils in the top shallow drawer (full width). ![]() The 18" unit on this side will be a garbage pullout. One one side of the island I want on the 36" unit the 4-drawer configuration (shallow, shallow, deep, deep) for flatwear, utensils, and china, mainly. The drawer fronts would be custom, bamboo plywood. ![]() Yes I know the Ikea ones are based on Blum, but there still COULD be a substantial difference. I am wondering what the difference would be between Ikea and Blum tandembox would be with respect to: I have a small project of 9 linear feet of all drawers, 18" and 36" units on each side of an island.
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