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Seat height and drawer depth

GULLABERG bench from IKEA? Let's open a drawer first.

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STEP 8 OF 24
Click the front rails in

Push each one straight back between the posts until both ends click.

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Two drawers, a 52 cm seat and a drawer that stops at 20 cm. The build is the part owners argue about, because the panels join on plastic pins that have to seat all at once, so the drawer and the seat come before the assembly.

Owner reviews on the IKEA listing The GULLABERG storage bench, 148 × 43 × 52 cm, in white. The grey finish is the same bench.

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SIZE MATCH PASS

Two boxes, one bench.

148 × 43 × 52 cm with two drawers side by side. The GULLABERG chests are taller and narrower, so check the measurements rather than the picture.

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What the tape measure says

The length is fixed. The gap has to be longer.

148 cm across the top with nothing that compresses, so measure the wall, not the space between the skirting boards.

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PRODUCT FOOTPRINT
148cm wide
43cm deep
52cm high

Listed size 148 cm wide, 43 cm deep, 52 cm tall, with a 20 cm drawer pull-out and adjustable feet.

What the listing does not say

The drawer is deep, the opening is not.

A hundred and forty-eight centimetres wide, 43 cm deep and 52 cm tall, and the seat is the top: no cushion is included and nothing lifts off. Fifty-two centimetres is chair height, so it is comfortable to sit on and push back up from, which matters in a hallway where you are pulling shoes on in a hurry.

The two drawers sit side by side, each about half the length, with a wooden knob in the middle of each front. They are deep enough for folded blankets and winter hats, but the listed pull-out is 20 cm, so the back half of the drawer stays inside the bench. Owners who like everything else about it still name this as the thing they would change.

The top is the widest part of the bench and it does not give, so the gap needs to be 148 cm plus the clearance you want at each end. One buyer measured 57 and five eighths inches against a listed 58 and a quarter and had to ask whether it would fit. Nothing on the bench compresses to make up that difference.

Assembly is where the reviews turn. The panels join on plastic pins that have to line up and be forced home together, and if one shifts the next will not seat. The repeated failure is the top not going far enough back for the rear panel, and at least one owner left the back panel off rather than risk breaking something. Build it on a blanket, and have a second person for the top.

It arrives as two packages, about 24 kg and 8 kg, and the drawers are in the second one. More than one buyer has assembled the frame before realising the drawer box was still at the store. Check both boxes before you start.

The sides are paper foil over particleboard and the top has a honeycomb core, so it wipes clean but marks if something heavy lands on it. The legs are adjustable, which is how you stop it rocking on an old floor, and felt pads under the feet keep it from scraping.

Wipe with a soft cloth dampened in water and dry with a clean cloth. Check the adjustable feet after the first week, and lift the bench rather than sliding it.