Low Wardrobe with a Rail and Two Drawers in Solid Beech

The same wardrobe with a drawer bank under the hanging space.

The Montessori idea behind this is simple enough to say in a sentence: a child who can reach a thing can choose it, and a child who can choose it will use it. That is why the bed is on the floor, the shelf is at knee height and the tower exists at all. It is not a style. Almost everything sold as Montessori furniture is a normal piece of furniture made smaller, and the test of whether it is the real thing is whether a two year old can use it without an adult, which is a question you can answer by watching rather than by reading a product page.

Specification

• Dimensions: 900mm wide by 550mm deep by 1200mm high
• Age range: 18 months to 10 years
• Material: solid steamed beech, which is the timber most school furniture has been made from for a century because it dents rather than splinters
• Finish: water based lacquer or paint, certified to BS EN 71 part 3
• Load rating: 25kg per drawer, rail rated to 20kg
• Standards: BS EN 12520 and BS EN 12521 for domestic furniture, finish to BS EN 71 part 3, and the tip test in BS 4875
• Edges and fixings: every exposed edge rounded to a 3mm radius, every fixing recessed and capped, and no pinch point anywhere a hand goes
• Assembly: flat packed, about 90 minutes
• Weight: approximately 48.1 kilograms
• Rail height: 600mm, and the carcass is drilled for an upper rail later
• Soft close runners on every drawer
• Finger safe gap at the hinge side of every door
• Anti tip restraint supplied and required
• Comes apart flat for a move
• Batch matched, and we keep the record for ten years

In the box

• The piece, flat packed
• Hanging rail with sockets
• Soft close runners and drawer stops
• An anti tip restraint
• Corner caps, a hex key and printed instructions

Assembly and safety

Flat packed with a hex key and printed instructions. An anti tip restraint is in the box and it is not optional on this piece. Furniture tip overs injure a serious number of small children every year in this country and every one of them is preventable with two screws. If you cannot drill the wall, tell us and we will send the freestanding ballast kit instead at no charge.

How long it lasts

This one converts rather than being replaced. The conversion kit is listed alongside it and is about a fifth of the price of the piece, which is the point. We keep the conversion parts for a range for ten years from the day we stop making it, so a piece bought for a first child can be brought back up to size for a third.