Attachment for bedroom cabinet
There's usually still space on top of the bedroom wardrobe that you'd like to utilize.
Attachment for bedroom cabinet - Inexpensive and DIY!
I was looking for an inexpensive, aesthetically pleasing, and DIY idea for a wardrobe top.
There weren't any suitable, commercially available tops for my bedroom wardrobe. Having one custom-made by a carpenter in the right finish was far too expensive.
The openings of the top, behind which empty boxes are stored, should be as large and wide as possible when needed. In the chosen solution, they are as wide as the wardrobe.
Solution:
- Creating a scale drawing
- Purchasing pre-cut, lightweight wooden panels of sufficient thickness, chosen as 16mm, from a lumberyard. The width corresponds to the width of the cabinet doors minus 1 mm for the foil thickness.
- Purchase decorative foil to match the cabinet decor.
- Purchase steel angle profiles 40 x 20 x 5 and 15 x 15 x 2.
- Purchase a disc magnet Ø 25.0 x 5.0 mm N50 nickel - holds 8.6 kg.
- Cut the angle profiles to length. The large profiles form a continuous border around the cabinet, the smaller ones are adapted to the width of the individual panels.
- Drilling and countersinking the angles for screwing them onto the cabinet and the panels.
- Powder coating of the steel parts by a specialist company.
- Drilling the panels with a Forstner bit in a drill press at a carpenter's workshop. From the back, so that the hole is just barely visible on the front. In this case, 12 mm deep.
- Pressing and gluing the magnets into the back of the panels.
- Covering the panels from the front with decorative foil.
- Screwing the small angle profiles onto the back of the panels. These are only for height adjustment, ensuring all panels are at the same height.
- Screw on handles matching the cabinet to the front of the panels.
- Screw on the large angle profiles, standing upright, to the top panel of the cabinet, flush at the front. Leg 20 is screwed on, leg 40 stands upright.
- Mount "gap fillers" made of thin plywood at the joints of the panels. The gaps are a continuation of the gaps between the cabinet doors.
- Place the panels. The small steel profile rests on the top edge of the large, upright profile, and the magnets attach to leg 40 of the large profile. This is screwed in place with leg 20.



