Cezanne Creative Mark Pastel Storage Box, 4-Drawer Wooden Art & Craft Supplies Organizer, Birch Wood, Brown

Measurements in Imperial and Metric: If you take out the foam padding the distance from the bottom of the drawer to the top of the drawer to close for clearance is just under 5/8" or just shy of 3 cm/ 15 mm. The foam padding takes away just over 1/8" or ~ 4 mm for your supplies. The dividers are 1/8" or just about 3 mm thick and are cut shorter in height to accommodate the foam padding. The inside length of the drawer is 14" or 35 cm + 6 mm. The drawers are 7 - 13/16" or 19 cm + 8 mm deep from front to back. If you have really thick pastels or want to store something else I hope this helps you out. I'm able to fit an entire 120 set of Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils in this box and have a bit of room to spare. I have attached photos showing sculpting tools, Derwent Drawing pencils, blending stumps, General's pencil extender, and a thick silicone shaping tool with three stacked dividers for demonstration of use. The Derwent Drawing pencils are thicker and longer than Faber-Castell and they crowd the blending stump in the back of the drawer. The tin set of six Faber-Castell drawing 9000 graphite pencils fit and the drawer closes smoothly with the foam padding left in. Caran D' Ache Luminance pencils are the same length as Faber-Castell but have their own box I keep them in for now. Prismacolor would fit just fine as would any watercolor pencil. I wanted to show you what you can get away with even if the foam padding is left in the drawer. If you take out the dividers you can add one pencil for each divider you remove and store it under the foam padding if you prefer. This box is made of birch wood but the bottom of the drawers and dividers are made of masonite. Note the photo shows birch wood dividers and I was able to remove mine easily. If you want to store any kind of wet media at all - DON'T. Masonite will swell so replace those two parts with real wood, seal them, and you should be okay. There are plenty of ArtBin brand plastic tool boxes that will work for wet media supplies. If you don't like the birch then paint or stain it. Get creative with this beautiful box! When you get this pastel box take it out of it's cardboard package and put it on a surface that won't stain to air it out. Pull out the drawers and foam to speed it up a bit with a fan. This is a fantastic box considering my alternatives were to buy glass frogs, plastic cups, mason jars, pencil carousels, or a bunch of other stuff that won't help protect the pencils during a move and waste valuable working space. I'll be moving to another apartment and see no need to put them in something that I'll have to take them out of in order to protect the pencils. This box is sturdier than it looks but will weigh a bit more when you have your supplies in it. Don't put it on a weak shelf and be aware that the drawers easily slide out. It's a joy to use and the drawers can be easily stacked when you work or play. You can't expect a mahogany "James Bond" type of pencil case when this is listed and made for storing just pastels at a very affordable price point. It's easy to customize, practical, and for the price of $24.99 you can't beat the quality for something made in China. While they may have a bad reputation for poor quality I got more than what I paid for with this pastel box and I'm very happy with my purchase. Thank you.

Just got this today. I compared this item with some others prior to purchase, and this one appeared to be a good value, and that seems to be the case. Good construction quality. Good fit and finish for what it is. Drawers slide in and out well enough without striking the adjacent drawer, and pull out completely & easily if you need to have them all the way out. I am using mine as a sort of stand for my desktop computer monitor. I put a wood riser from my woodshop below it, as to raise it up a bit so that when accessing the bottom drawer, it pulls out above my keyboard. Works like a charm so far. Plan to use it for storing writing instruments. There is a slight odor when I extracted it from it's cardboard box. It's not terrible, and I expect it should subside now that it's in the open, airing out. Can't identify if the smell is the wood, the glue, or a bit of both. Don't let this put you off though. As I write this, only moments after opening it up, I do not smell it at all, and only did smell when I stuck it up to my nose initially. The only reason I bring this up is one of the reviews (either this item or a comparable) warned about bad odor, but I'm saying it's a non-issue for me. I like the natural wood finish and am very please with my purchase.

This specific set of drawers was highly recommended to me for organizing my colored pencils. I am very happy with it! The drawers slide easily and come completely out for convenience. So glad I purchased this item. UPDATE: I purchased 2 more of these pencil drawers and the ones I received were drenched in a horrible chemical. They smelled horrible in the most toxic kind of way! I was so disappointed that these drawer sets which were so perfect for my pencils smelled so awful that I had to leave them outside. I decided to leave them out and see I& the smell would dissipate. After a week, they still smelled just as strong and toxic. I should have returned them to the vendor, but I decided to try and salvage them by treating them with a thick coat of baking soda. After a few more days outside, they still smelled, but slightly less. I am using them now since I didn’t want to throw them away. Bad experience!

You can fill these to the brim, take out the drawers and carry them around, they are sturdy, and it is pine wood, not composite wood. You can easily take the separators out, but they are useful when you need them. They stack well, they sit on a small bookshelf of mine, and 3 sets of these drawers fit on top of each other on one shelf. 9 shelves that hold all my artist and other writing supplies, it's awesome. There's a lot of people talking about the smell when the drawers first arrive. I have a true pine wood trunk, and I immediately recognized the smell as that of normal pine wood. So (as far as I know) this is just how pine smells, it isn't some weird oil, this is how my pine trunk smells all the time. And you can air the drawers outside for about a day and the smell lessens quite a lot. I have them in my bedroom, they only smell when you get right next to them, and it lessens every day. I personally like the smell of pine more than I dislike it, so it doesn't bother me as much as it might someone else, but just so you know, this smell is pine wood smell.

Good quality, nicely made, arrived to Australia in good order

Smells real bad, I left it outside on my deck for about 2 weeks before bringing it I . Other than that it’s okay