Converting Regular Drawers To Soft Close

Screw the slides into the drawer.

Converting regular drawers to soft close.

Th kaboodle ones ive used on a coffee table and are a nightmare to set up compared to blum equal gaps around the drawer etc. Switch the drawer slides jig so that it is sticking outside of the cabinet. This article is now nearly 4 years old and nowadays there are soft close kits by blumotion and others that make this process much simpler and cheaper in this instructable i will teach you how to retrofit the blumotion soft close draw. The install is very easy as you can see from the video.

Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place. Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill. Our knife drawer is the width of 2 regular drawers plus it has the extra weight of metal utensils so that s the only drawer we used 2 units on. Rest the drawer on the jig and extend the drawer slides until they are fully extended to the front edges of the drawer.

Come to find out you don t need to buy special cabinets to get slow close drawers and doors. Decent drawer runners with soft close are 100 a pair. They sell the hardware to do it on amazon making this a simple and fairly cheap but big upgrade. 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.

Buy one do a drawer and see how long it takes you and how your frustration levels are it might be the last one you do. Well if you ve ever wished for quieter closing drawers. To make slow close drawers you install one piece inside the cabinet on the wall and one piece onto the drawer. Ask this old house carpenter nathan gilbert upgrades a kitchen to have soft close cabinets subscribe to this old house.

Repeat this process for all the drawers in the kitchen. Retrofit soft close to almost any drawer blumotion.