Job 18a: Modify IKEA Hejne shelves to fit into a porch and fit – cheaper and faster than bespoke shelving and stylish.

The customer liked these IKEA Hejne shelves but they were 97mm too long for the space in her porch where she wanted to keep her flowers.

I cut the ends from the shelves and refited the original end batons and then built the shelves in situ.

If standard flat-pack furniture does not fit the space where you want to put it, it can often be cut and reassembled to fit perfectly.

The alternative to this solution was a bespoke set of shelves, which would have been considerably more expensive.