Narrow Sideboard 800mm Wide by 400mm Deep in Painted MDF

A 800mm sideboard at 400mm deep, sized for the widest we make, and still narrower than most people expect a sideboard to be. Two doors, an adjustable shelf behind each and a cable notch in the back panel.

Everything we sell is under 800mm wide. That is not a style, it is the constraint the whole range is designed around, because it is the measurement that decides whether a piece of furniture works in a small flat. Eight hundred millimetres is roughly the width of a standard internal door, the width of the gap most people have between a sofa and a wall, and the point past which a piece stops reading as part of the room and starts reading as an obstacle. Designing to it is harder than designing without it and it is the only interesting thing about furniture for small spaces.

Specification

• Dimensions: 800mm wide by 400mm deep by 780mm high
• Floor footprint: 0.32 square metres
• Material: moisture resistant MDF sprayed in a two pack polyurethane, which is harder than a brushed finish and will not chip on a door edge
• Finish: hardwax oiled or sprayed, handles in your chosen finish
• Capacity: 35kg per shelf, 60kg on the top
• Assembly: flat packed, about 45 minutes
• Getting it in: Flat packed in 2 cartons, largest 860mm by 820mm by 480mm. Through a standard 762mm door: on its side, yes. Into a small lift: yes
• Weight: approximately 28.8 kilograms
• Height: 780mm, which is worktop height and lower than most sideboards
• Shelves: one adjustable shelf per bay, three positions
• Back panel: solid, with a 60mm cable notch you can pop out or leave
• Doors: soft close hinges, 110 degree opening
• Feet: levelling, 12mm of travel, felt pads fitted
• Comes apart flat for a move

What you get

• The carcass and doors, flat packed in two cartons
• Two adjustable shelves with steel supports
• Handles in your chosen finish, or the push to open kit
• Levelling feet and felt pads
• An anti tip strap, which you do not have to use
• Hex key, spanner and printed instructions

Assembly

Flat packed, with a hex key, a spanner and printed instructions in the box. Fittings are cam locks and threaded steel inserts rather than chipboard screws, which is what lets a piece be taken apart and reassembled without the joints going loose. We reckon on three moves and have tested to ten.

If you are renting

Freestanding, no wall fixing needed and no holes in anybody's plaster. An anti tip strap is in the box if you want it and there is nothing to make good if you never use it. Felt pads are fitted to every foot as standard, because the other way to lose a deposit is a scratch across a floor you did not lay.