Convert Cabinet Shelves To Drawers

The most useful rollout shelves and drawers are the ones closest to the floor since these eliminate the most awkward bending and crouching.

Convert cabinet shelves to drawers.

If you can build a simple drawer box the rest will be easy. Then remove the shelf. If want to limit your time and money investment you ll get the most bang for your buck by retrofitting these areas first with slide out cabinet shelves. How to take an existing cabinet shelf and convert it to a pull out cabinet drawer.

Plywood and transfer the marks to the new shelf. The 2 1 2inch divider was. Reinstall the cabinet door onto the cabinet and repeat this process for every cabinet door in the kitchen. Last winter as part of a kitchen remodel in which i removed the cabinets i had made a dozen years earlier and refinished them i converted a two door cabinet with pullout trays to a drawer cabinet.

I reused the shelf making it the drawer bottom so all you have to do is get wood for the sides and drawer slides. We all have this. I love this project because not only is is super functional adding more storage and making your base cabinets more accessible but you hardly need any new materials. See the ikea products chris used.

We were able to keep all the original doors intact by swapping in hinges with a wider door opening angle to give the drawers the freedom to pull out. If it s made from particleboard we recommend that you replace it with 3 4 in. The sides of our custom drawers are made from 5 8 thick 11 ply baltic birch plywood while the bottoms of the rollout drawers are made from thick white melamine great for easy cleaning. This is fairly easy just undo the screws that are holding the hinges onto the frame.

Then remove the hinges from the door. A terrible messy lower cabinet that seems to just fill to the brim with everything. In this project we will be replacing existing lower cabinets with drawers start by taking off the doors and the divider. The construction of every aspect of the drawers is top notch and we guarantee our drawers to hold up to 100lbs.

For the drawer slides start by removing the drawers and slides from the cabinet using the screwdriver. Your drawer front and slides can t extend beyond those marks or you ll spend hours building a drawer that won t open. My wife and i loved the other project we did this one that i decided to expend it to other parts of the kitchen. Having kitchen cabinets from ikea made this conversion simple as we just had to invest in some rationell extending drawers.

Do one cabinet at a time and keep track of the order of the drawers being pulled from that one cabinet as they can vary in size.