with the 12" cabinet i had also picked up a pull out insert because its 24" deep and only 12" wide and i didnt want to be down on hands and knees trying to reach in all the way to the back. the individual drawers like all my other base cabinets have dont come in the narrower 12" size, the smallest is 15". so instead of drawers, it has a door that is attached to two shelf/drawers and the whole thing pulls out, top and bottom drawer/shelves together.
except the box was dented.
i opened it up and inspected the panel at my car in the parking lot as i loaded all the other boxes. the panel looked fine, so i kept it. i shouldnt have. when i got home and started taking pieces out to assemble it, the drawer slides were bent.
thats THICK metal. i cant even imagine what had to happen to that box to bend metal that heavy duty. so it had to go back.
but i need that drawer assembled and in place to properly locate the cabinets for the peninsula so the drawers and drawer handles on that inner corner can all open freely. if the cabinets are too close together they wont be able to open past each other. so i had to go back to the store again before we could proceed with the kitchen.
this morning i went and made decent time on the highway, 45 minute drive after rush hour had passed. spent a half hour in the store waiting. when the girl saw the bend up drawer slides her jaw dropped. i told her i didnt know what happened to manage to bend them, but i wanted a whole new box rather than just replacing those two parts because who knows what else was messed up. she fully agreed, placed a new order for that part, and sent me over to the furniture pick-up on the other wall from where they were.
now on a much earlier trip to ikea, one of the return people told me they didnt do exchanges! they ONLY returned stuff. they made me go up to the kitchen department and reorder the part. this girl did it all right there at the return counter, no hassle, no sending me up thru the entire store and wasting my time. so this girl gets the gold star. after 30 minutes i was back in my car driving another 45 minutes home. so two hours out of my life to exchange one item.
the 12" and the 18" cabinets assembled (to replace the 30" that was there)
the drawer for trash and recycles
both drawers in
anyway, i assembled it and installed it and its great.
the skinny 12" cabinet pull out drawer
although i had a hiccup because theres only two drawer slides. and two shelves. i looked at the instructions, and the next page, and screwed in both drawer slides on the bottom. then was perplexed about where the other set of drawer slides was for the upper drawer. it took paging back and forth between those pages a number of times before i realized only ONE went on the bottom. the other went up on the opposite side for the upper drawer. its a little odd but it works fine.
next up, i had to cut a 15" handle down to 12" to fit because they dont make 12" handles.
i used the dremel to cut it down, and then filed the edges smooth
you can see the cut off handle on the left doesnt have the same spacing as the one on the right. but when the countertop is on nobody will be able to tell.
then we can deal with the peninsula cabinets and mounting them to the floor. i think thats going to be complicated.
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