Converting Kitchen Drawers To Soft Close

Blum makes a blumotion kit for metabox item z70 0320 that retails for 8 00 and takes about 10 minutes to install.

Converting kitchen drawers to soft close.

To make slow close drawers you install one piece inside the cabinet on the wall and one piece onto the drawer. See the attached catalog page. By adding push to close to an undermount soft close drawer slide you can gently push the drawer front and the drawer will glide partly open. Hold the soft close attachment up to the top corner of the cabinet door so the flat edge sits behind the edge of the cabinet and the knob juts out just beyond the edge.

The good thing is retrofitting your kitchen for soft close drawers is much cheaper than getting new ones and the parts are very inexpensive. The easy way to update your drawers to make them soft closing is to install rockler soft close adapters to your existing epoxy coated slides and you don t have to replace the slides. Rest the drawer on the jig and extend the drawer slides until they are fully extended to the front edges of the drawer. Installation takes only an hour or less and you ll be rewarded with a quieter kitchen.

The slow close basically is the result of the piece on the drawer catching the piece on the wall and then slowly closing. Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place. Repeat this process for all the drawers in the kitchen. Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill.

Even though drawers are harder than the cabinets it still only took about 2 hours to do all of the drawers in our kitchen. The old hardware remains in place. This process you show for retrofitting blum metabox drawers to soft close is way too complicated and expensive.