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How to plan BESTÅ modular storage to fit your home

Here’s a guide to help you create a BESTÅ combination tailored to your space and belongings. Start with a setup that suits your current needs, then expand it over time or build new combinations for other rooms. The modular design of the BESTÅ system makes it easy to adapt when your life – and storage needs – change. 

Three BESTÅ frames on legs in a living room with two oak veneer top panels on top. Green KRUKMAKARE fronts are on one frame.

1. Choose your frames

Set the look of your BESTÅ combination by choosing fronts that feel like you. Whether you want smooth or textured, high gloss or glass, you are spoilt for choice with materials and colours. Available in different sizes to fit all frames, each front features push-open or soft-closing runners and hinges for drawers and doors.

Add a top panel for a polished finish. With options like light and dark veneer or glass, it’s easy to create your perfect look – while neatly hiding cabinet joins.

A rectangular Bestå storage frame changes from dark grey to oak brown and then white. It transforms and becomes lower and wider. It whizzes away and is replaced by a tall, rectangular frame with shelves that slot in. A smaller frame sweeps in that widens into a TV bench with two deep, push-open drawers. The bench is pushed up on four short legs, then the legs disappear, and the bench glides up onto a wall mount.

1. Choose your frames

Set the look of your BESTÅ combination by choosing fronts that feel like you. Whether you want smooth or textured, high gloss or glass, you are spoilt for choice with materials and colours. Available in different sizes to fit all frames, each front features push-open or soft-closing runners and hinges for drawers and doors.

Add a top panel for a polished finish. With options like light and dark veneer or glass, it’s easy to create your perfect look – while neatly hiding cabinet joins.

2. Choose your fronts

Set the look of your BESTÅ combination by choosing fronts that feel like you. Whether you want smooth or textured, high gloss or glass, you are spoilt for choice with materials and colours. Available in different sizes to fit all frames, each front features push-open or soft-closing runners and hinges for drawers and doors.

Add a top panel for a polished finish. With options like light and dark veneer or glass, it’s easy to create your perfect look – while neatly hiding cabinet joins.

A wall-mounted cabinet hangs over a wooden floor on an olive green wall. Its doors change colour, material and style, which include dark and light brown wood, glossy black with windows backed by shelves, and white with square, woven poplar panels. The cabinet's top panel alternates between dark wood, light wood and white.

2. Choose your fronts

Set the look of your BESTÅ combination by choosing fronts that feel like you. Whether you want smooth or textured, high gloss or glass, you are spoilt for choice with materials and colours. Available in different sizes to fit all frames, each front features push-open or soft-closing runners and hinges for drawers and doors.

Add a top panel for a polished finish. With options like light and dark veneer or glass, it’s easy to create your perfect look – while neatly hiding cabinet joins.

3. Add the finishing touches

Complete your cabinets inside and out with integrated lighting and storage boxes. As well as making things easier to find, lighting adds atmosphere and highlights your favourite treasures on open shelves or behind glass doors. Boxes that fit BESTÅ shelves put an end to clutter and provide a forever home for all your things – especially small or awkwardly shaped ones.

Knobs and handles are a great way to customise your storage even further. They come in a wide range of colours and finishes, so the style possibilities are endless!

A tall, white cabinet stands on a wooden floor against an olive green wall. Shelves rise up from the bottom and fix into place before plastic, rattan, cardboard and felt boxes make their homes on them. Lights on the undersides of the shelves switch on and white doors close. The handles alternate between simple white tabs, different coloured knobs and grab handles made of shiny metal, dark wood and tanned leather. The accessories disappear, leaving the cabinet a simple shell again.

3. Add the finishing touches

Complete your cabinets inside and out with integrated lighting and storage boxes. As well as making things easier to find, lighting adds atmosphere and highlights your favourite treasures on open shelves or behind glass doors. Boxes that fit BESTÅ shelves put an end to clutter and provide a forever home for all your things – especially small or awkwardly shaped ones.

Knobs and handles are a great way to customise your storage even further. They come in a wide range of colours and finishes, so the style possibilities are endless!

Ready to design your BESTÅ storage?

Create your dream combination with the BESTÅ planner. All you need to start are your space measurements and an idea of what you will store. As you plan, the tool adds products to your basket for online checkout or saves a list to bring to the store.

Design your BESTÅ
A person sits on a brown sofa with a green throw over the arm. They rest a tablet on the arm and browse the IKEA.com website.

Ready to design your BESTÅ storage?

Create your dream combination with the BESTÅ planner. All you need to start are your space measurements and an idea of what you will store. As you plan, the tool adds products to your basket for online checkout or saves a list to bring to the store.