![]() ![]() You can mix-n-match.ĭo be aware that stationery and office supplies have their own "standard" sizes and formats. Last, but not least, office supply stores have containers suitable for vertical or horizontal storage of stuff. There are organizers for art supplies which come in a variety of shapes and sizes that are chemically resistant. They are all available in different sizes in hardware stores, apartment decor, or housewares specialty stores such as Ikea or StrucTube. A number of different drawer organizers are available made from different materials from plastic, metal, cloth over a metal frame, fibreglass, or even baskets. Without modification, for example, you could probably put twenty or thirty collapsible music stands in one drawer. What to do depends on what you want to store. None that I could find go in the reverse direction-getting a special-purpose hanging file cabinet and trying to "dismantle and remove" the specific feature it was designed to accommodate. Alternately, low-sided drawers can be fitted with accessory rail kits.Īs plain filing cabinets are more versatile, various kits are plentiful that can convert them for using hanging files. The bulk of filing cabinets that use hanging files have high sides, rails, or bars for supporting each side of the "hanging" file folder pocket. There are myriad of accessories and supplies to convert general purpose filing cabinets from flat folders (and dividers) to hanging files. ![]() Your need is counter to the requirements of the general office furniture requirements. People would want to use excess file drawer space like this.Īfter doing some research, I see a pattern in the available office storage furniture and supplies. As I said, I would have thought that many Solution? Maybe with luck, there is a source of boxes that are meant Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction toward a Over time, and flakes, making a bit of a mess. My past experience with thisĪpproach has been that the tape holding the box together disintegrates Quite a large piece of stiff cardboard that isn't interrupted byĬut-outs at the corners and edges. That's big enough to make good use of a file drawer would require Past by cutting up cardboard into a pattern for folding, but a box I've created my own custom size boxes in the I don't have the toolsĪnd surfaces to cobble up a solution that requires woodwork, such asĬan be found on youtube. Live in a 1-bedroom apartment in a highrise. I'm somewhat limited in the actual hacking that can be done, since I Solution I seek is slightly less wide so that it can fit inside Letter-Sized width are for storing file themselves, whereas the However, most boxes that are close to the I thought that exploiting file drawers for non-files wouldīe quite standard, and that there would be ready-made bins I would need a box thatĬan fit inside the drawers, as the their bottoms are not flat, and has Using the remaining drawers for non-files. I can probably somewhat compensate for the now-suboptimal storage by Was that I could stack them differently to optimize my use of space,īalancing that off with the amount of surface space that I want from One advantage to my previous use of multiple individual bankers' boxes Vetting, I ended up using two of the four drawers, and only partially. I thought it would free up so much space, seeing as I had so I recently acquired a vertical 4-drawer Letter-Sized hanging fileĬabinet. ![]()
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