No real specific content on the efficient part in title.
Making sure all bases are covered.
Lift them, and start dropping them, while pressing shift, at the opposite wall of the door. Continue until there is one space left.
(ok, that one is out of the way.

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For wardrobes?, if thats the target. Don't use shift while dropping one. Drop on as near to a corner as you can. Might take a fair amount of tries to get it right.
Now start adding other ones by dropping them by directly ... hold on, that trick don't work for wardrobes I think. (NTS: re-test to force a memory refresh.)
Space related: (while still having them accessibly to some degree.)
Timber house can contain 22 cupboards. (6 west, 6 east, 5x2 rows in center) ... Additional you can add two boats to it to If you like. (not tied 3 boats yet.)
(Block hut: 9 cupboards. (don't -> Timber house))