This time, I won’t be talking about an epic project like the sand or the computer wall. I will be describing a possibly quite useless problem that I decided to solve in my apartment.

I live in a panel building and have a kitchen with a small sink. The building is very old; it was built during the socialist period, so they ran away here and there, and the walls are very crooked. For example, in my study, I have a wall that is 298 centimetres wide, and a ball rolls down from one end of the room to the other end (and fast).

But back to the kitchen. The space around the sink is small, only a few inches wide. A few years back, I bought a design piece, a container for dish soap and a sponge tray in one from the Joseph Joseph brand. I just liked the container and didn't think about the sizes. But it was too big for the area between the fillet and the sink by a few millimetres, so I just laid crookedly for several years. However, I was annoyed that it wasn't level.

What upset me was that it would fit if my apartment didn't have such unlevelled walls. I had an idea of a stand to increase the height of the container and, at the same time, push it more to the wall. I modelled a stand for this container that, at the back, had a cut area to hide the unevenness of the wall.

I guessed the dimensions quite wildly and added a one-millimetre-thick wall around. I planned to attach the container to the stand so it would not move in the stand.

I printed the container from PETG, a material I don't use much, so I have only one shade of grey. And I forgot to adjust the Seam position in PrusaSlicer to the option Aligned, so the default option, Nearest, stayed. That created dots on the side of the container. But it's not visible, so I found it pointless to print it again with the correct settings.

The stand almost didn't fit in. The colour does not match my kitchen perfectly, but it works. I have had it for a few months and can confirm that it works well and does not move or fall.

STL file

• Stand for Joseph Joseph