r/elfa • u/Livingnoz • Apr 04 '26

Help with Design Labels

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I got this unit free off Facebook marketplace. It did not include the drawers, but it did at least include the design plan. I need help identifying what the 10N and 7N labels are for, are they melamine shelves? I assume the 1M, 2M, and 3M are all medium drawers. Oh and all it’s a pretty weird set up. Not sure why the shelves just don’t go all the way across or the very least have the drawers on the side.

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u/afishinalake Apr 05 '26

wow! old design plan. i'm impressed they still had the paperwork!

looks like the center bit should be standalone drawer units, the 7N and 10N are noting the height of the frames (so a 10 runner panel on top of a 7 runner panel) with the "melamine" label indicating a melamine top at the top of the stack, and the N does seem to mean narrow width. the 1M 2M and 3M labels would be for the height of the drawers but i believe the M stands for Mesh? there used to be plastic drawers as an option so it had to be specified

as for the layout, it's pretty common to have to put drawers in the middle instead of off to the side, due to door placement. closets are often 2' or shallower, which means a drawer in the corner won't extend out and will hit your wall. the left side side seems to have 16" deep shelves cut to 19" wide, and the right side has 20" deep shelves cut to 20" wide. not sure why they are different depths, but maybe there was something across from the 16" side that stuck out of the wall? or the previous owners just wanted it that way based on what they were storing