Adding a RATIONELL drawer to a BEKVAM serving cart.

With no drawers in our apartment, I had to come up with an alternative. Originally I planned to add the drawer to the BEKVAM cart just below it, but it was going to look ugly and there was all this space under the top which was going to waste. So I removed one of the faces, and modified the brackets to allow an 18" x 12" RATIONELL drawer to be installed. The bonus was I go to re-use the face of the cart as the face of the drawer. This took me 3 days, with the bulk of the work being done in 1 evening. 6-8 hours max.

Step 1 Remove the top and one side. of the cart.

I started with an assembled BEKVAM cart. So I had to go back and remove two brackets and the bolts from one side of the cart. I used the wider side for where I was placing the RATIONELL drawer.

Comments

[Wizardofwesley]

Super...inter use of Product.... !Thumbs Up.. you get the Sven award... ! (I call it the Sven award when WE can our Design Them... ) lol.. Great Idea.. Great Job..

[Patrik]

Looks lovely, but you sure went to a lot of trouble to modify those angle brackets! :-) I bet you could buy some small angle brackets for only a few $ to accomplish the same thing - no metal cutting, bending and drilling involved. I assume the deeper RATIONELL drawer (20") didn't fit? Do you think it would be feasible to cut the longer drawer to fit the cart?

[davis_jonathan]

It was Christmas eve that I made this, so it was more a "just got to do it". Which led me to dremel the brackets. As for the 20" RATIONELL, from the point of view that the wider part of the BEKVAM is the front, the cart is only ~17.5" deep. If you went the other way, you it's ~21" deep, so it would probably fit - but then the drawer would have to be less than 12 1/2" wide.

[GorillazMiko]

That's awesome!