I was annoyed again that something was not 100% pressed against the wall. This time, it was a screw cabinet that I don't use for screws, but for small things like jewellery. There aren't many heavy things in the cabinet, just bulky things.

However, I didn’t want to drill the cabinet to the wall because I change the location of this cabinet on the table from time to time. It's not aligned with the wall for two reasons: because of the fillet on the table and because of the electricity cut-out that I've been using for two cables.

I have several electricity cutouts on my long U-shaped table, but they were made many years ago. My needs have changed, but the position of the cutouts did not, so I learned to live with them.

It bothered me, though. I decided to model a stand to get the cabinet into the air and align it with the wall. I made two bodies mirroring each other to spread the weight and have some kind of support in the middle of the cabinet.

I chose the print from PLA; they say it's a more fragile but solid material. Hopefully, it will last. The pictures show that the bodies are not identical. One has access allowing cables to get from the cut-out to the table.

I pulled the cables through the body with the cut-out; the body without the cut-out had only the cables under the cut-out for the fillet on the table.

However, there was a minor problem that I did not anticipate, or I just didn't check it out. The cabinet itself rests only on four sort-of-rubber legs, so the weight distribution on the stand would be wrong; it would not use the printed legs in the middle of the stand at all. I had an idea: Where the cabinet did not touch the stands (but where I would like it to), I would add a small rubber stand that I had in my apartment and then connect the cabinet with the stand in multiple areas or corners.

The cabinet on the pedestal fits perfectly. As soon as I put it on the pedestal, it adhered nicely and aligned with the wall exactly as I had planned. But I made the pedestals illogically hollow; why?

Because when I create something, I always think I could use the space for some extra drawers, so I did. I modelled two drawers in the same style as the computer wall and printed them in the same colour. The first drawer was simple.

The drawer for the stand with the cut-out was another story because there is a cut-out in the table where the cables are pulled through. I measured it and modelled a drawer with a cut-out to fit the place. At the same time, I put two extra walls in the drawer because I had no idea what would I would store in such a unique shape.

The printed drawers are light grey – the same colour in which I have printed half of the stuff in my study/workroom. (The other half is white.)

The drawers fit nicely into the stands, and even the cut-out one slides out and back without any issue, even with the cables around.

I check the stands from time to time to see if they are somehow deforming, but they are still all good. It's been a few months, and it looks like it will hold for a long time.

So much work for just a few extra inches of space, right? :)

STL file

• Holder for the cabinet