Festive & Occasion Packaging · Made to order
Two doors close over the drawer array, so the product on the shelf reads as a single premium box rather than a stack of compartments. The reveal happens once, in the buyer's hands — and the inside of the doors is a printed surface you already own.
Structure illustration, not a photograph of a produced sample — this format is built to your drawer count and artwork. Send your layout and you get a 3D mockup of your own version back.
Overview
The doors are not decoration. A drawer array on its own has no single front face — it photographs as a grid of small squares, and on a retail shelf or in a paid social placement that reads as a sample case rather than a gift. Two doors give the product a face: one flat panel for the brand, one clean silhouette, and a closed-state photograph that is genuinely worth putting in the campaign.
They also change the unboxing. With doors, the first thing the buyer does is open a box, not pull a drawer. That single beat is where a printed interior pays for itself: the inside of both doors is a surface you already own, and it is the only part of the product the buyer is looking at when the array is revealed. Everything after that is repetition, twenty-four times.
The engineering cost is in the hinge and the hinge allowance. A wrapped door needs clearance for its thickness and for the wrap, or it will bind against the body the first time it is closed in a humid room. Tell us whether the cabinet gets opened once at a gifting moment or stood open on a counter for a month — the two need different closures.
A drawer array is quoted as a structure, not off a price list. The count, the cavity size, the board grade, the wrap, the foil coverage and the pulls all move the unit price, and they move it in different directions — more drawers means more board and far more hand assembly, a smaller cavity means the same board doing less work. Fix the structure first and the number that comes back is one you can hold us to.
Specification
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Structure | Rigid body with two front doors over a drawer block |
| Drawer counts | 24 or 25 as standard behind the doors; 12 quoted on the layout |
| Closure | Concealed magnets, or a satin ribbon tie at the centre seam |
| Door interiors | Printed, foiled or left in the body colour — the reveal surface |
| Board | Heavier board than a plain drawer case, because the doors carry the cabinet’s front face |
| Base compartment | Optional full-width compartment below the drawer block |
| Packing | Ships assembled with the doors taped shut, or with doors and block separate |
| MOQ | On request — confirmed once the door thickness and closure are fixed |
| Lead time | 12–18 days after sample approval, before transit |
Variants
Nothing on the outside but the seam. The cleanest closed-state photograph and the most furniture-like in the hand. Needs board thick enough to house the magnet without telegraphing a bump through the wrap.
A satin ribbon around the centre seam reads softer and is the faster version to assemble. It also gives the buyer something to do before the doors open, which is worth having at a gifting moment.
Both inner faces carry artwork. Because they are seen flat and face-on at the exact moment the array appears, this is the highest-attention surface on the whole product and usually the best value line on the invoice.
A full-width compartment under the drawer block. It absorbs the height difference when the block is shorter than the body, and it is where the oversized item or the warranty card goes.
Materials
| Option | What it means |
|---|---|
| Heavier body board | Doors carry the front face of the cabinet and take the load when the doors are held open. Board thickness is set by the overall size, not by the drawer count. |
| Magnet housings | Concealed magnets sit in a routed recess or a built-up pad. Both are fine; which one applies depends on board thickness, and it is why the closure question comes before the quote rather than after it. |
| Ribbon | Satin ribbon, bought in. Specify width with the door size — a heavy door on a narrow ribbon will not stay tied in transit. |
| Door wrap | The same wrap as the body, applied with the hinge allowance built in. This is the part that fails first if the allowance is guessed rather than specified. |
Best for
One flat face to photograph, one clean silhouette to sit on a shelf. The version for a range that has to earn its place next to the premium chocolate.
The inside of the doors is a message surface at the exact moment the gift opens, which is more useful than a printed card in the base.
A watch, a limited edition or a piece of hardware in the base compartment, with the countdown running above it. Sells the reveal before the product.
Twenty-four small proofs of concept, mailed to press, one per door. The doors keep the array hidden until the recipient is already holding the kit.
Sizing
| Dimension | Guidance |
|---|---|
| Overall size | Driven by the door panel first, then the drawer block behind it. A door smaller than about 200×300mm stops reading as a door and starts reading as a flap. |
| Door thickness | Set with the board grade and the closure. Concealed magnets need the thickness; a ribbon tie works on a slimmer door. |
| Hinge allowance | Included in the wrap specification, not added afterwards. This is the dimension that decides whether the doors still close cleanly in a humid room. |
| Block clearance | The drawer block needs clearance inside the body so the doors can close over it without bearing on a drawer front. |
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FAQ
The closure and the door thickness decide most of what follows.
Keep looking
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A Ramadan countdown cabinet with an arched top over a thirty-drawer block, crescent and star foil on the arched panel. Thirty is the safe count: the month runs twenty-nine or thirty days depending on the sighting, so a thirty-drawer array is right in both years. The arch is a shaped wrap, which is what separates this from the rectangular version on price.
A rectangular Ramadan countdown cabinet with thirty drawers and a gold lantern frieze across the top band. Rectilinear means the board sheet is used almost entirely, the cartons nest properly and the unit ships without a shaped void filler. It is the version to build when the run is large, the channel is retail or marketplace, and the packing maths matters as much as the look.
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