{"id":231809,"date":"2010-01-26T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27523059.post-4707625702703220256"},"modified":"2010-01-26T10:56:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:56:26","slug":"besta-toy-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/231809","title":{"rendered":"Besta toy storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Elena and Markus are total Ikea addicts who hacked this Besta storage for toys. \n<\/div>\n<p>\n&#8220;We bought two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.com\/us\/en\/catalog\/products\/40134050\" >Besta shelf units<\/a> last spring and wanted to use them to store the kids&#8217; toys in the living room.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-photo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S18Jrnv90FI\/AAAAAAAAHVI\/hBOooomaiNc\/s1600-h\/DSC_2170-798023.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"242\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431070320641298514\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S18Jrnv90FI\/AAAAAAAAHVI\/hBOooomaiNc\/s400\/DSC_2170-798023.JPG\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nUnfortunately you cannot have this unit with two drawers, because the drawers are a little less than half the height and a little more than 1\/3, so it just does not work and we went for the drawer+door solution with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.com\/us\/en\/catalog\/products\/70091978\" >Grip handles<\/a> for the drawers on top and push latches for the doors at the bottom.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-photo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S18Jr0AZ2OI\/AAAAAAAAHVQ\/a_y-seJlhPU\/s1600-h\/DSC_2171-799475.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"277\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431070323931470050\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S18Jr0AZ2OI\/AAAAAAAAHVQ\/a_y-seJlhPU\/s400\/DSC_2171-799475.JPG\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nIt turns out that those push latches are not so easy to open, especially for kids and also that those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.com\/us\/en\/catalog\/products\/50103557\" >Norum<\/a> doors are so wide that the hinges cannot really hold them up properly, so the whole thing did not look really nice, with the doors at the bottom hanging down in the middle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-photo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S18JsT7kYKI\/AAAAAAAAHVY\/I3A_EqfqLWc\/s1600-h\/DSC_2172-701001.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431070332501123234\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_XGRz6uWGK3I\/S18JsT7kYKI\/AAAAAAAAHVY\/I3A_EqfqLWc\/s400\/DSC_2172-701001.JPG\" width=\"295\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nSo, inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/ikeahacker.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/laundry-basket-storage-hack.html\" >this hack<\/a> we bought 4 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.com\/us\/en\/catalog\/products\/90105719\">Inreda drawers without front<\/a> and had a carpenter fix the Norum doors to fit the drawers!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/27523059-4707625702703220256?l=ikeahacker.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ww60ZC2KVD2-AG758VH8K3FMpv4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ww60ZC2KVD2-AG758VH8K3FMpv4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ww60ZC2KVD2-AG758VH8K3FMpv4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ww60ZC2KVD2-AG758VH8K3FMpv4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Ikeahacker?a=0_7X20RvL78:gZ6o7lloLJI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Ikeahacker?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Ikeahacker?a=0_7X20RvL78:gZ6o7lloLJI:4cEx4HpKnUU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Ikeahacker?i=0_7X20RvL78:gZ6o7lloLJI:4cEx4HpKnUU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Ikeahacker\/~4\/0_7X20RvL78\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elena and Markus are total Ikea addicts who hacked this Besta storage for toys. &#8220;We bought two Besta shelf units last spring and wanted to use them to store the kids&#8217; toys in the living room. 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