Usage of the services of professional housing architect or interior and furniture designer is inceasing in these days. If an investor prefers the sector furniture, residential architect helps him to choose appropriate furniture and a proposes its the location in the room in the context of the other interior elements and other interior equipment. More difficult creation of the interior occurs when an investor prefers an atypical furniture (furniture made to measure). In this case, a residential architect must have, in addition to esthetic feeling and technological talent, a knowledge of the manufacturing of furniture (important are knowledges about the furniture fittings, the materials used for the manufacture of furniture and their properties). Unfortunately, a residential architect does not always has these knowledges so the investor proposes a basis for the calculation of price of the furniture and of the production himself. By sending such documents to furniture manufacturer via e-mail, there comes (in an effort to minimize misunderstandings) long e-mail or telephone communication. The calculation of the price of the atypical furniture is then complicated , and makes the production more expensive.

If you do not plan to use services of an architect or interior and furniture designer (for example, in an effort to save the funds), I can offer you an example and a few tips for you for drawing basis of furniture
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Example: shelf-box for folders

It’s strange, but many people seem to forget during drawing that the furniture is not constructed of thin paper, but it is made from a large-scale material (DTD, MDF, plywood, coreboard …) which has its minimum thickness. These mistakes evokes bad calculations and contradictory proportions. It is clearly demonstrated on drawing of the shelf-box for folders. Customer wants box with 4 shelves for folders with height of 1,650 mm (A) and he counted the height of folder (320 mm + 10 mm store). Is it possible to meet these conditions? The manufacturer of furniture can keep the height of a box and a number of shelves (B) only if 6 x thickness of particle board (the upper bottom, the lower bottom, shelves) is substracted from the total height and thus the space for the folders is reduced by 22 millimeters (so the box is for folders no more). Another option is to increase the height of box (C), or to reduce the number of shelves by one.

Standard thickness of materials used to manufacture furniture

Furniture and particle board – boards with thickness of 18 mm are usually used for cabinet body and door. With „duplicating“ (sticking together two layers of boards with glue or double-sided adhesive tape), the board reaches the thickness of 36 millimeters - these thick furniture boards are used as the upper table boards but also when it is necessary to have thick cabinet corpus. By bonding several layers you can achieve even greater thickness, the limiting factor is the width of the edge tape or ABS edge. Other standard thickness of laminated particle board: 10, 25 and 28 mm (these thicknesses may be combined in effort to reach the final thickness of the various laminated board).

Furniture and veneer particle board and hardboard - a standard thickness is 19 mm (veneer glued on DTD / MDF is thicker than laminated board) and with the “duplication” it is possible to produce boards 38 mm thick. In the case of veneer boards their maximal thickness is not limited - the use of veneer edge tape makes it possible to create DTD / MDF board of any thickness.

Furniture and sprayed hardboard - MDF boards treated to a high gloss or matte surface of different colors have the same thickness of 18 mm. “Duplication” of these boards is technologically more difficult (before spraying, the edges must be edged with veneer so the paint does not crack between single layers), but sprayed board can have any thickness as well.

Furniture and “raw” particle board and hardboard - 3, 4, 10, 16, 18, 2, 25, 28 mm … raw DTD / MDF is produced in various thicknesses but you can achieve any thickness too.
My final advice:

If you want to draw a sketch of furniture yourself, work with the thicknesses of boards and their multiples which I have described above. If you use residential architect ask them to do the same.