Deb and I have a master bedroom just barely big enough for our queen size bed. It's caused a few problems, such as a lack of storage space for clothes. Though the built-in wardrobe is good, we can't hang all our clothes, and besides that there are socks and other things that don't make sense on hangers. For a while we used a tall chest of drawers as a dressing table substitute, but the time had come to make better use of the space. We set out in search of sets of drawers for either side of the wardrobe.
After getting a quote for one kind at $500-$900, we decided to go with a much cheaper pair of free-standing sets, 4 drawers each. Simple and effective. The plan was to place them on the floor inside the wardrobe at either end, keep our shirts and other things hanging above them. We would also have some floor space between them for shoes or bags.
After getting the units home, we discovered quickly that we would need a hammer or mallet to assemble them properly, so I had to go back to the shops and procure one, having never owned my own mallet before. The assembly went easily enough after that, as did moving the old chest of drawers out of the way, but once we tried to put the new drawers in we found that they were just a couple of centimetres too deep for the wardrobe. I got very unhappy with my lack of foresight at that point, and we realised that the only way to use them would be to turn them sideways, removing all possibility of using the floor space at all.
Mokalus of Borg
PS - This creates a new storage space problem.
PPS - We can't seem to win.
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