Convert Kitchen Doors To Drawers

During the refacing process we convert lower cabinet doors and the paired drawers into a banks of three deep full extension cabinet drawer boxes.

Convert kitchen doors to drawers.

A sturdy drawer on full extension slides gives you access to the cabinet s contents with a simple pull of the handles. 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. The slow close basically is the result of the piece on the drawer catching the piece on the wall and then slowly closing. You do lose space and you also will damage the back of the door from drawers scraping them if the doors are not open far enough which happens a lot.

Opt for unfinished 15 or 18 inch cabinets fitted with doors and operable drawers not the fake drawer fronts used for sink cabinets and take a day to put all the pieces together. As one of my customers put it it brings the contents of the cabinet to you instead of you having to go into the cabinet and scrounge around for them it s relatively easy to convert a cabinet from doors to drawers. This is fairly easy just undo the screws that are holding the hinges onto the frame. 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.

For the drawer slides start by removing the drawers and slides from the cabinet using the screwdriver. To make slow close drawers you install one piece inside the cabinet on the wall and one piece onto the drawer. More efficient to just pull out a drawer than open two doors and pull out a drawer. See the ikea products chris used.

Next drill a small hole in the door using a self centering drill bit. Reinstall the cabinet door onto the cabinet and repeat this process for every cabinet door in the kitchen. Having kitchen cabinets from ikea made this conversion simple as we just had to invest in some rationell extending drawers. Your handsome creation will turn heads at dinner parties for years to come.

The old hardware remains in place. Then remove the hinges from the door. The first step in the process of converting shelves to drawers is to remove the doors from the kitchen cabinet. Open the cabinet door.

Then screw the new hinges into the new holes. We remove the center stile between the double doors to create the larger space for the deep drawers.