Hi
I'm currently re-launching some Danish sideboards from the sixties. The original size of the one sideboard is 210x80x50cm and it has tambour doors. Please take a look at the original sideboard.
I have now been asked to produce a shorter version and back in the old days the shorter version was 165cm - which I will stick to. Picture also uploaded.
My idea is the following: Instead of having a middle section (in the short version of the sideboard) I could make one 'wide' section and one 'narrow' section which has the same size as the old middle section. By doing this it would be possible to fit drawers in the narrow section. Drawing also uploaded.
I have to make a decision and thought that I could ask you. Do you prefer a short sideboard with the original middle section or the two-section sideboard ?
Thanks in advance.
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The absence of drawers would be noticeable for me. Most of the times I open the tambour doors, it's to access something in the drawers (usually placemats, but special flatware would also go there if I had any). The central location of the drawers also means that you only need to open the doors partially to access.
I vote to keep the central drawers.
Good luck. Please post photos when you complete the first one. Will the new credenzas be sold under the BPS banner?
Thanks for your feedback.
Remember that it will be possible to fit drawers in the side section. Another reason for having a two section sideboard is that, if you don't have drawers, then you will have more space for plates etc.; In a three section sideboard you can 'only' as an example have one pile of dinner size plates per section, so you might end up with 'gabs' of unusable space - do you know what I mean ?
Yes, it's BPS.
I like the symmetry of the drawers in the center. I can see the utility of the the option with drawers on the side and wide shelves. And it still look good.
The version with only shelves looks too empty, and too assymetrical, and I think that it is very useful to have drawers to fit napkins, napkin ring, candles and holder, placemats, silverware, etc. with just shelves this would all be stacked in an ugly fashion, or in neat little stacks, stretching the length and wasting mountains of vertical space.
One nice option one tambour door sideboards have is the ability to leave the tambour retracted to the edges of a central stack of drawers. This can offer another look, and allow for easier access to the drawers, if it is used that way. Perhaps there could be an option with a full stack of drawers, with full fronts?
Glad to hear BPS will live again!
Out of curiosity, who was the original designer of this piece?
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