{ "meta": { "title": "Buffet / Sideboard / Credenza — Agent-Based Search", "retailerScope": [ "Amazon", "IKEA", "Wayfair" ], "lastUpdated": "2026-07-27", "requirements": { "interiorWidthMin": 25, "interiorDepthMin": 14, "totalRunMax": 120, "heightRange": [ 32, 36 ], "unitRule": "Single unit, or any combination of matching-style base cabinets at various widths, total exterior run ≤120\". Primary criteria: maximize the total count of 4.4\"W × 14\"D × 4.4\"H storage units that fit across the combination — a bay N inches wide contributes floor(N/4.4) width-multiples, not just a pass/fail.", "storagePreference": "Cabinet + adjustable shelves preferred; zero drawers preferred, minimal acceptable. Base cabinets only — no wall-mounted or hanging units.", "dividerRule": "A door pair opening onto a single continuous bay passes; a center divider splitting it into narrower bays fails, even if overall width looks sufficient.", "availabilityRule": "Must be generally available to purchase now. Temporarily out of stock is fine. Amazon's 'Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.' — the outOfStock block, distinct from a normal restock notice — reads as discontinued and disqualifies a candidate regardless of how well it otherwise passed.", "colorRule": "Black or dark grey finish only. Checked each surviving candidate's own product-line color variants directly (IKEA product pages link their sibling-color SKUs) rather than assuming a color exists — TONSTAD Cabinet with Doors turned out to ship in off-white only, no black/dark-grey option in that line, and is disqualified on that basis alone despite otherwise being the top dimensional match. HAVSTA (Sideboard and Cabinet with Base) and SEKTION/LERHYTTAN both do offer a black option, at the same price as their white counterparts, so those swapped to black rather than being dropped.", "discountCheck": { "checked": "2026-07-27", "result": "No product-specific markdown found on TONSTAD, HAVSTA Sideboard, or HAVSTA Cabinet with Base — each page's own price data shows only the standard current price with no previousPrice/salePrice field. IKEA's active sitewide promo carousel (checked directly in each page's embedded promo data) currently covers mattresses, mattress toppers, KALLAX shelving, dressers, sleeper sofas, desk chairs, and cookware/dinnerware for IKEA Family members through 8/2 — none of it names sideboards, buffets, or cabinets. Re-check periodically; IKEA rotates these promos and a future one could cover this category." }, "storageUnit": { "w": 4.4, "d": 14, "h": 4.4, "formula": "floor(interiorW / 4.4) × floor(interiorD / 14) × floor(interiorClearH / 4.4), computed per bay and summed across every cabinet in a combination.", "heightNote": "No retailer in this dataset publishes interior clear height (only overall exterior height is published). Every interiorHEst value below is INFERRED using the same ~2\" top/bottom panel allowance already observed on TONSTAD's and HAVSTA's own published width offsets — flagged accordingly, not treated as confirmed." } } }, "verified": [ { "id": "havsta-sideboard", "rank": 1, "name": "HAVSTA Sideboard", "brand": "IKEA", "retailer": "IKEA", "color": "Black", "url": "https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/havsta-sideboard-black-90529233/", "price": 400, "priceNote": null, "overall": { "w": 47.625, "d": 18.5, "h": 35, "wDisplay": "47⅝\"", "dDisplay": "18½\"", "hDisplay": "35\"" }, "interior": { "w": 45.625, "d": 15, "wDisplay": "45⅝\"", "dDisplay": "15\"", "bays": 1, "note": "1 continuous bay", "hEst": 33, "hEstDisplay": "≈33\"", "hEstStatus": "INFERRED" }, "doors": 2, "doorsNote": "2 sliding doors", "drawers": 1, "drawersNote": "1 drawer (base)", "shelves": 1, "verification": { "status": "PUBLISHED", "source": "IKEA measurement diagram (image 0765460)", "confidence": "medium-high" }, "storageUnits": { "unitsW": 10, "unitsD": 1, "unitsH": 7, "total": 70 }, "deficientCriteria": [], "availability": { "status": "UNCONFIRMED", "checked": "2026-07-27", "source": "Downgraded from an earlier AVAILABLE claim: the catalog-level isDiscontinued/isSoldOut flags checked via curl don't reflect real per-location stock. A direct browser check of a different IKEA runner-up (VIHALS) at zip 95046 showed the live delivery/store widget as unavailable despite identical catalog flags, so this item needs the same live per-zip check before its availability can be trusted." }, "notes": "New #1 pick under the black/dark-grey requirement — the former winner (TONSTAD Cabinet with Doors) only ships in off-white and had no black or dark-grey option to switch to, so it's disqualified below rather than kept with a caveat. The black HAVSTA Sideboard is priced identically to the white one ($400) and shares the exact same overall/interior dimensions. Only ~1\" depth margin over the 14\" floor — recommend a personal re-measure before buying given the requester's prior scrambled-spec experience." } ], "runnerUp": [ { "id": "havsta-cabinet-with-base", "name": "HAVSTA Cabinet with Base", "brand": "IKEA", "retailer": "IKEA", "color": "Black", "url": "https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/havsta-cabinet-with-base-black-50559646/", "price": 270, "overall": { "w": 31.875, "d": 18.5, "h": 35, "wDisplay": "31⅞\"", "dDisplay": "18½\"", "hDisplay": "35\"" }, "interior": { "w": 29.875, "d": 15, "wDisplay": "≈29⅞\"", "dDisplay": "≈15\"", "bays": 1, "note": "inferred 1 continuous bay", "hEst": 33, "hEstDisplay": "≈33\"", "hEstStatus": "INFERRED" }, "doors": 2, "drawers": 0, "shelves": 1, "shelvesNote": "1 adjustable shelf (singular — matches the passing pattern, not the divided one)", "verification": { "status": "INFERRED", "source": "IKEA's own page has no readable interior figure in this session's text extraction — the measurement diagram is image-only. Inferred by analogy to HAVSTA Sideboard's own published wall-offset (47.625−45.625=2\"W, 18.5−15=3.5\"D) applied to this SKU's identical 31.875×18.5 overall footprint.", "confidence": "medium", "whatWouldVerify": "Read the actual measurement-diagram image on the product page (needs image analysis, not text scraping), or find an assembly-instructions PDF, or a buyer review reporting the interior measurement." }, "storageUnits": { "unitsW": 6, "unitsD": 1, "unitsH": 7, "total": 42 }, "deficientCriteria": [], "availability": { "status": "UNCONFIRMED", "checked": "2026-07-27", "source": "Downgraded from an earlier AVAILABLE claim: the catalog-level isDiscontinued/isSoldOut flags checked via curl don't reflect real per-location stock. A direct browser check of a different IKEA runner-up (VIHALS) at zip 95046 showed the live delivery/store widget as unavailable despite identical catalog flags, so this item needs the same live per-zip check before its availability can be trusted." }, "whyMissed": "Not a disqualification — a genuine coverage gap. The original research searched \"HAVSTA sideboard\" and IKEA's larger catalog lines but didn't separately search the \"HAVSTA Cabinet with Base\" product name within the same series. Flagged by the requester directly; overall footprint is dimensionally identical to the (now color-disqualified) TONSTAD Cabinet, and its \"1 adjustable shelf\" (singular) wording matches the passing pattern used elsewhere to distinguish undivided cabinets from divided ones — a good sign, not proof.", "notes": "Same 42-unit yield as the black HAVSTA Sideboard's per-cabinet rate is not identical (Sideboard yields 70 due to its extra width) — this is the narrower sibling in the same black finish. Confirmed the black colorway exists at the same $270 price as white. Only worth pairing with the Sideboard once its own interior estimate is independently confirmed." }, { "id": "sektion-base-cabinet", "name": "SEKTION Base Cabinet, 2-Door, LERHYTTAN black stained (kitchen-as-sideboard build)", "brand": "IKEA", "retailer": "IKEA", "color": "Black (LERHYTTAN black stained door front)", "url": "https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/sektion-base-cabinet-with-shelves-2-doors-white-lerhyttan-black-stained-s79457138/", "price": 461, "priceNote": "as configured with door front; was $567 with the original VEDHAMN oak door front — LERHYTTAN black stained is $106 cheaper", "overall": { "w": 36, "d": 24.75, "h": 30, "wDisplay": "36\"", "dDisplay": "24¾\"", "hDisplay": "30\" (frame only)" }, "interior": { "w": 34.6, "d": 23.2, "wDisplay": "≈34.6\"", "dDisplay": "≈23.2\"", "bays": 1, "note": "inferred, not confirmed for this exact SKU", "hEst": 28, "hEstDisplay": "≈28\" (frame, excludes legs)", "hEstStatus": "INFERRED" }, "doors": 2, "drawers": 0, "shelves": 2, "verification": { "status": "INFERRED", "source": "METOD-family documented wall-offset formula (~3.6cm W / ~2cm D), not confirmed letter-for-letter for this SKU", "confidence": "low-medium", "whatWouldVerify": "This SKU's own assembly PDF." }, "storageUnits": { "unitsW": 7, "unitsD": 1, "unitsH": 6, "total": 42 }, "deficientCriteria": [ "Height: 30\" frame vs. 32–36\" required — needs added legs to reach the band, adding cost/complexity" ], "availability": { "status": "UNCONFIRMED", "checked": "2026-07-27", "source": "Downgraded from an earlier AVAILABLE claim: the catalog-level isDiscontinued/isSoldOut flags checked via curl don't reflect real per-location stock. A direct browser check of a different IKEA runner-up (VIHALS) at zip 95046 showed the live delivery/store widget as unavailable despite identical catalog flags, so this item needs the same live per-zip check before its availability can be trusted." }, "notes": "Switched from the original VEDHAMN oak door front to LERHYTTAN black stained to meet the black/dark-grey requirement — same SEKTION cabinet carcass underneath, so overall/interior dimensions are unchanged; only the door front (and price) differ. Width/depth would pass by a wide margin if the inference holds, and its 23.2\" interior depth is deep enough that a 2nd row of units still wouldn't fit (needs 28\"). Height remains the practical blocker as a simple standalone SKU." } ], "components": [ { "id": "havsta-glass-door-cabinet", "name": "HAVSTA Glass-door Cabinet", "brand": "IKEA", "retailer": "IKEA", "color": "Black", "url": "https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/havsta-glass-door-cabinet-black-00529261/", "price": 330, "overall": { "w": 31.875, "d": 13.75, "h": 48.375, "wDisplay": "31⅞\"", "dDisplay": "13¾\"", "hDisplay": "48⅜\"" }, "interior": { "wDisplay": "≈29⅞\"", "dDisplay": "≈11¾\" (inferred)", "bays": 1, "note": "sits on top of a base cabinet; not itself floor storage", "hEst": 46.375, "hEstDisplay": "≈46⅜\"", "hEstStatus": "INFERRED" }, "doors": 2, "doorsNote": "glass sliding doors", "drawers": 0, "shelves": 2, "verification": { "status": "INFERRED", "source": "No published interior figure; estimated by the same ~2\" panel-thickness offset used elsewhere in this dataset.", "confidence": "low" }, "storageUnits": { "unitsW": 0, "unitsD": 0, "unitsH": 0, "total": 0 }, "deficientCriteria": ["Not a base cabinet — a wall-mounted/stacked glass display unit, excluded from the storage-slot count by this page's base-cabinets-only rule regardless of its own dimensions (its 13¾\" depth would also fall short of the 14\" floor, but that's not why it's excluded)."], "availability": { "status": "UNCONFIRMED", "checked": "2026-07-27", "source": "Catalog flag only (isDiscontinued:false, isSoldOut:false) — same caveat as every other IKEA item on this page; not an independent per-location check." }, "notes": "Not evaluated as a standalone buffet/sideboard candidate — it's the top-tier component of the HAVSTA storage combination below, mounted above a base cabinet rather than sitting on the floor on its own. Already excluded from the storage-slot count on category grounds (this page counts base cabinets only, agreed earlier), not on a dimensional technicality — it still adds real glass-front display storage the slot metric was never meant to capture." } ], "unavailable": [ { "id": "costzon-buffet", "name": "Buffet Cabinet with Storage", "brand": "Costzon", "retailer": "Amazon", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/Costzon-Kitchen-Storage-Sideboard-Cupboard/dp/B01N4K9367", "wasStatus": "Previously the #3 verified candidate — passed every hard requirement.", "overall": { "wDisplay": "45\"", "dDisplay": "20\"", "hDisplay": "36\"" }, "interior": { "wDisplay": "~41\"", "dDisplay": "~17\"" }, "availability": { "status": "UNAVAILABLE", "checked": "2026-07-27", "quote": "Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.", "source": "Amazon listing's own outOfStock block (id=\"outOfStock\"), not a normal temporary-restock notice." }, "reason": "Removed from Verified candidates on availability grounds only — its dimensions, doors/shelves, and PUBLISHED interior verification were all fine. Amazon's specific wording (\"we don't know when or if\") reads as discontinued rather than a short-term stockout, so it's disqualified per the generally-available requirement rather than left in the verified table with a caveat." }, { "id": "prepac-console", "name": "Simply Modern 2-Door Console", "brand": "Prepac", "retailer": "Amazon", "url": "https://www.amazon.com/Prepac-Simply-Modern-Buffet/dp/B0D2LZ9NZ6", "wasStatus": "Was already a deficient runner-up (depth and height both short) before availability was checked.", "overall": { "wDisplay": "30¾\"", "dDisplay": "16\"", "hDisplay": "30\"" }, "interior": { "wDisplay": "≈27.75\"", "dDisplay": "≈12.5\"" }, "availability": { "status": "UNAVAILABLE", "checked": "2026-07-27", "quote": "Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.", "source": "Amazon listing's own outOfStock block (id=\"outOfStock\"), not a normal temporary-restock notice." }, "reason": "Doubly disqualified: it was already short on depth and height, and now Amazon shows the same discontinued-style unavailability message as the Costzon buffet above." }, { "id": "vihals-sideboard", "name": "VIHALS Sideboard", "brand": "IKEA", "retailer": "IKEA", "url": "https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/vihals-sideboard-white-90491720/", "wasStatus": "Was already a deficient runner-up (2.5\" short on height) before availability was checked.", "overall": { "wDisplay": "55⅛\"", "dDisplay": "18½\"", "hDisplay": "29½\"" }, "interior": { "wDisplay": "26\"", "dDisplay": "≈15.5–16.5\"" }, "availability": { "status": "UNAVAILABLE", "checked": "2026-07-27", "quote": "Delivery: Currently unavailable. IKEA East Palo Alto — Click & collect: Currently unavailable. Store: Out of stock.", "source": "Live IKEA delivery/store-pickup widget, checked directly in-browser at zip 95046 (nearest store: IKEA East Palo Alto, CA) — this is the actual per-location stock signal, not the generic catalog isDiscontinued/isSoldOut flag this page had relied on until now." }, "reason": "Doubly disqualified: it was already short on height, and this was also the item whose real stock check exposed that the catalog-flag method used for every other IKEA candidate on this page doesn't reflect true availability. The other four IKEA items (TONSTAD, HAVSTA Sideboard, HAVSTA Cabinet with Base, SEKTION) are marked UNCONFIRMED pending the same direct per-zip check." } ], "ruledOut": [ { "id": "tonstad-cabinet-color", "name": "TONSTAD Cabinet with Doors", "retailer": "IKEA", "url": "https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/tonstad-cabinet-with-doors-off-white-30509997/", "reason": "Was the #1 dimensional match on this page (29⅞\"×16½\" published interior, 6.9\" over both floors) until the color requirement was added. Checked the TONSTAD line directly for a black or dark-grey sibling SKU — it only ships in off-white, no other finish exists in this collection. Disqualified on color alone; every other requirement still passes.", "deficientCriteria": ["Color: off-white only — no black or dark-grey option in this product line"], "storageUnitsTotal": 42 }, { "id": "besta-storage-combo", "name": "BESTÅ storage combination with doors", "retailer": "IKEA", "reason": "IKEA's own diagram confirms a genuine center partition: each bay only 22\" wide, despite 47¼\" overall width. Height also fails at 29⅛\". Double fail, not a close call.", "deficientCriteria": [ "Interior bay: 22\" vs. 25\" required (center divider)", "Height: 29⅛\" vs. 32–36\" required" ], "storageUnitsTotal": 0 }, { "id": "simplihome-connaught-60", "name": "SimpliHome Connaught 60\" buffet", "retailer": "Amazon & Wayfair", "reason": "Brand's own site states three ~17.8\"-wide bays behind 3 doors, confirmed on both retailers.", "deficientCriteria": [ "Interior bay: ~17.8\" vs. 25\" required (2 dividers, 3 bays)" ], "storageUnitsTotal": 0 }, { "id": "simplihome-harper-38", "name": "SimpliHome Harper 38\" 2-door", "retailer": "Amazon", "reason": "Brand's own site confirms two 18\"-wide bays despite being only a 2-door cabinet — breaks the usual \"2 doors ⇒ probably undivided\" heuristic.", "deficientCriteria": [ "Interior bay: 18\" vs. 25\" required (center divider despite 2 doors)" ], "storageUnitsTotal": 0 }, { "id": "simplihome-harper-artisan", "name": "SimpliHome Harper 60\" / Artisan 54\"–60\"", "retailer": "Wayfair", "reason": "Same divided-bay pattern as the other SimpliHome lines, plus inferred depth ~13–13.5\", just under the 14\" floor.", "deficientCriteria": [ "Interior bay: divided, well under 25\" per bay", "Depth: ~13–13.5\" inferred vs. 14\" required" ], "storageUnitsTotal": 0 }, { "id": "onbrill-iinea-60", "name": "ONBRILL 60\" and IINE'a 60\" buffets", "retailer": "Amazon", "reason": "Both confirmed via their own listing text to have 4 compartments per cabinet, well under 25\" per bay, with inferred depth ~12.2\".", "deficientCriteria": [ "Interior bay: 4 compartments, well under 25\" each", "Depth: ~12.2\" inferred vs. 14\" required" ], "storageUnitsTotal": 0 } ], "retailerNotes": { "wayfair": "Zero verified passes. Wayfair's own product pages returned HTTP 429 (rate-limited) on every direct-fetch attempt, so results leaned on brand sites and cross-retailer corroboration rather than Wayfair's own diagrams — thinner coverage than Amazon or IKEA got. Results were dominated by the same SimpliHome lines that fail on Amazon. Not yet checked: Wayfair's traditional solid-wood buffet lines (Birch Lane, Sunset Trading, Jofran, A-America, Powell), which typically run 19–21\" deep." }, "combinationRule": "Working combinations are only built from candidates with zero deficient criteria (i.e. would qualify standalone) — VIHALS, SEKTION, and the Prepac console are excluded here because combining units doesn't fix an individual unit's own height/depth shortfall. Each family shows only combinations that are practically different from each other: the maximum-slot plan at its lowest cost, a same-slot-count 'swap' variant only if substituting a different model in the same family actually changes the cost/verification trade-off, and a fully-verified alternative only if the max plan itself isn't fully verified. Plain fewer-of-the-identical-model subsets (e.g. 2 when 3 fits) are not shown — they're strictly worse with no offsetting benefit.", "combinations": [ { "id": "havsta-mixed-1s2c", "family": "HAVSTA (IKEA) — Black", "kind": "max", "label": "IKEA combo + 1 more Cabinet with Base", "bundleInfo": { "label": "IKEA Combo (article 895.348.29)", "sourceUrl": "https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/havsta-storage-combination-w-sliding-doors-black-s89534829/", "price": 1000 }, "units": [ { "ref": "havsta-sideboard", "count": 1, "bundleItem": true }, { "ref": "havsta-cabinet-with-base", "count": 1, "bundleItem": true }, { "ref": "havsta-glass-door-cabinet", "count": 1, "bundleItem": true, "stacksOn": "havsta-cabinet-with-base" }, { "ref": "havsta-cabinet-with-base", "count": 1, "addition": true } ], "totalWidth": 111.375, "totalStorageUnits": 154, "allVerified": false, "estCost": 1270, "familyBest": true, "siteBest": true, "note": "Highest storage-unit count found anywhere in this dataset, bought as 2 orders: the $1000 IKEA combo (Sideboard + Cabinet with Base + Glass-door Cabinet, fixed price — see the itemized lines below) plus 1 more Cabinet with Base at its own separate $270 price: $1000 + $270 = $1270. TONSTAD's own combinations (previously the fully-PUBLISHED alternative here) are gone now that TONSTAD is disqualified on color — it only ships in off-white, no black or dark-grey option exists in that line. That leaves this all-black HAVSTA plan as the page's only maximum-slot option. Of the 4 physical cabinets involved, only the Sideboard's interior is PUBLISHED — the combo's own Cabinet with Base and Glass-door Cabinet are INFERRED, and the added Cabinet with Base repeats that same inference — verify before ordering." }, { "id": "havsta-sideboard-x2", "family": "HAVSTA (IKEA) — Black", "kind": "zero-risk", "label": "Zero-risk: 2× HAVSTA Sideboard", "units": [ { "ref": "havsta-sideboard", "count": 2 } ], "totalWidth": 95.25, "totalStorageUnits": 140, "allVerified": true, "estCost": 800, "familyBest": false, "siteBest": false, "note": "Only 14 fewer units than this family's mixed maximum (140 vs. 154 — a 9% drop) for $140 less and zero unverified interior data. With TONSTAD disqualified on color, this is now the only fully-verified/fully-black combination plan on the page." }, { "id": "havsta-storage-combo-glass", "family": "HAVSTA (IKEA) — Black", "kind": "preconfigured", "label": "IKEA's own combo: Sideboard + Cabinet with Base + stacked Glass-door Cabinet", "bundleInfo": { "label": "IKEA Combo (article 895.348.29)", "sourceUrl": "https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/havsta-storage-combination-w-sliding-doors-black-s89534829/", "price": 1000 }, "units": [ { "ref": "havsta-sideboard", "count": 1, "bundleItem": true }, { "ref": "havsta-cabinet-with-base", "count": 1, "bundleItem": true }, { "ref": "havsta-glass-door-cabinet", "count": 1, "bundleItem": true, "stacksOn": "havsta-cabinet-with-base" } ], "totalWidth": 79.5, "totalStorageUnits": 112, "allVerified": false, "estCost": 1000, "familyBest": false, "siteBest": false, "sourceUrl": "https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/havsta-storage-combination-w-sliding-doors-black-s89534829/", "note": "This is a real IKEA combination SKU (article 895.348.29), priced as a single fixed $1000 combo — not something assembled or re-priced here, and its 3 sub-products are not individually priced within it (that's why no line below shows a $ ea. price). Its own page lists these exact 3 sub-products: Sideboard, Cabinet with Base, and a Glass-door Cabinet stacked on top of the Cabinet with Base only, bringing that side up to 83½\" tall for display storage behind glass. The Glass-door Cabinet contributes 0 to the slot count because it's not a base cabinet (this page counts base cabinets only, agreed earlier), so this bundle's own slot total is 112 (70 from the Sideboard + 42 from the Cabinet with Base). The $1000 happens to equal $400+$270+$330, the 3 parts' own standalone retail prices summed — confirming no bundle discount or markup — but that's a fact about the total, not a per-item breakdown IKEA actually sells. 40.5\" of the 120\" run is still unused — see this family's maximum-slot plan above for adding one more, separately-priced cabinet." } ] }