Converting Regular Drawers To Soft Close

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Converting regular drawers to soft close.

Switch the drawer slides jig so that it is sticking outside of the cabinet. 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. Screw the slides into the drawer. 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.

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. To make slow close drawers you install one piece inside the cabinet on the wall and one piece onto the drawer. Come to find out you don t need to buy special cabinets to get slow close drawers and doors. 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 old hardware remains in place. You put one piece on the bottom of the drawer as close to the front as you can. They sell the hardware to do it on amazon making this a simple and fairly cheap but big upgrade. The install is very easy as you can see from the video.

Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill. Rest the drawer on the jig and extend the drawer slides until they are fully extended to the front edges of the drawer. Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place. Retrofit soft close to almost any drawer blumotion.

Ask this old house carpenter nathan gilbert upgrades a kitchen to have soft close cabinets subscribe to this old house. 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.