IKEA Besta Storage Combinations
Ikea have designed the living room’s version of the famous Pax wardrobe, the Besta System.
A number of basic cabinets can be combined in many different ways to provide you with a flexible storage system for all the components that now make up our home entertainment systems. They are also great for mounting a Plasma TV and managing all the cables.
You choose whether to add drawers, shelves and doors or just leave the cabinets open, perfect for keeping all the various disks we need close to hand. They also make excellent bookcases!
Getting your Besta to look right is all about accuracy. The cabinets have to be perfectly aligned and then fastened together. We even use our own techniques to ensure that your cabinets stay aligned. Doors have to be perfectly balanced, so that everything is square and all the gaps are even, giving you the slick look you are after. You may also need us to cut access panels for plug socketsin the cabinet backs, which we can do for you.
The system above is the very popular TV storage combination with sliding doors. You can find it on the Ikea site, but there it is illustrated with cupboard doors fitted to the top cabinets.. The build time was 3.5 hours costing £118.00.
Case study: A custom 2.4m Besta storage combination
The basic cabinets fixed to the wall
Our client wanted to get her 16 year old son's bedroom organised prior to his A level studies. She designed this Besta System herself from the basic components. Whilst he might have preferred a more racy present for his sixteenth birthday, we think he will appreciate having a stylish organised bedroom into which he can invite friends to chill.She combined two 192cm x 60cm tall cabinets with a 120cm x 64cm height extension. After joining the cabinets together, we wall fixed the combined frame for stability and security.
Doors added
Here we have added some of the black Besta Vara door fronts and mounted the running rails for 3 glass fronted drawers.
The finished Besta system
The finished unit shows the cupboards with 2 white glass Vegby doors which complement the glass fronted pull-out drawers lined with rubber media mats that allow them to easily hold DVDs, CDs or gaming discs.
The unit was finished with a Jagra media bench on wheels. which fits perfectly into 120cm gap between the upright cabinets.
Our client's son was really pleased with how 'cool' the finished unit looked. As our fitter packed away his tools, he was desperately trying to convince his mum that all it needed was a plasma TV for his X-box. She didn't look convinced!
The whole build took a little longer than usual as space was restricted, completed in 4.5 hours at a cost of £146.00.