I haven't missed the extra space in my drawers -- nor do I pine for the standard cabinet shelves that would have been there but for the drawers. In our case, the extra space was handy. We have an island and had to run power across the inside rear of the cabinets. With the shorter drawers, there is no chance of interference from the hardware, drawers or drawer contents. We have two 30" all-drawer bases (one has utensils, pots and pans and baking supplies, the other glassware and more baking), and two 36" all-drawer bases (one with mainly tupperware and odd appliances like crock pot and toaster, the other with flatware on top, everyday plates and bowls in the middle, and odd serving pieces in the bottom). Ours have been in use for almost three years with no sagging or issues whatsoever.

I have had the Sektion drawer in drawers since April. Overall, I really like them. I don't find them cumbersome to use. It is easier to keep the items you use most often in the bottom section so that you don't have to then pull out the top section to grab something. When you open the drawer, the main drawer (bottom) is exposed. To get at the interior drawer, you have to then pull that one open. I don't think you can "lock" the top drawer so that it's the first one you see when you open it, but you can kind of grab it as you're opening the main drawer so they both open at once. I do like that I can separate things so that I don't have one huge drawer with too much stuff in it. For example, I have my baking utensils in the top drawer, then my general utensils in the bottom. Every single top drawer you see in my kitchen has a drawer within a drawer. The lower drawers are just regular drawers. In the island, I have my pot lids in the top interior drawer and my pots below them in the main drawer. It works really well to keep things organized. One note, which IKEA may have addressed by now: The screws from the cabinet hardware stick out and bump up against the interior drawer, causing the paint to rub off. I bought some adhesive drawer bumpers to prevent this. I've attached a photo showing this. And I'll also attach some photos of the kitchen itself, which I am super happy with. Happy to answer any other questions!

Since you can modify the width of Rationell drawers by using Blum Tandembox back fixing brackets and making your own back, are their any unforeseen drawbacks increasing the height to make into a metafile drawer as shown here on page 50? Do the IKEA gallery fit or do you need to order new gallery rails? Also, has anyone tried to fit a Maximera with Tandembox back fixing brackets? Thanks.

Hi AMS! You're getting brave and creative;) If you stay with IKEA for this, I'd hack a 24" base for MW with drawer. It comes with a shelf, the Forbattra cover strip and fasteners that you'll need to use as horizontal filler piece. Not sure which model FP dishdrawer you want, but I'd do the tall height which requires a cavity of 18"H x 23 5/8W x 22 1/16"D. I would mount it at the top with one 10" drawer at the bottom (add an inner drawer if you want). This makes the installation hack easier and no worries about water ruining the drawer base and front. Your 36" cab to the left of the sink will give you plenty of room in the top drawer for cutlery and more. And you have the drawers by the range for cooking utensils. I'd put your wraps and tupperware in the bottom drawers below the DW. Now the hack: I would cut the two sides to meet the cutout requirements, leaving the back and 1 15/16" of the back sides intact. The filler would be cut and attached between the opening and the drawer (18" dishdrawer + 2" filler + 10" drawer = 30"). If you try it this way you can still mount the cab to the rail and to the sink cabinet and 12" pullout cabinet. I would add a Fixa countertop support fixture on each of those two cabinets to make up for the missing cabinet sides. Of course, you could still do a 5" above and below, but it will be a more complex install and I'd plan to get extra drawer fronts and bottoms. I would apply the moisture tape to the bottom of the top drawer too. You could apply the same installation hack as above but swapping the bottom drawer for a low maximera with 5" front and adding the 5" at the top. You'd still have 2" of filler. Hope this makes sense! Let us know what you decide!! Hello to benjesbride!! Hope you and the family are well! Great to see you!