Convert Cabinet Shelves To Drawers

This is fairly easy just undo the screws that are holding the hinges onto the frame.

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. If you can build a simple drawer box the rest will be easy. 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. My wife and i loved the other project we did this one that i decided to expend it to other parts of the kitchen.

Your drawer front and slides can t extend beyond those marks or you ll spend hours building a drawer that won t open. Then remove the shelf. See the ikea products chris used. The first step in the process of converting shelves to drawers is to remove the doors from the kitchen cabinet.

Then remove the hinges from the door. 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. To save time and materials i reused the existing trays modifying as necessitated by the slide hardware. We all have this.

Plywood and transfer the marks to the new shelf. How to take an existing cabinet shelf and convert it to a pull out cabinet drawer. I reused the shelf making it the drawer bottom so all you have to do is get wood for the sides and drawer slides. 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.

Having kitchen cabinets from ikea made this conversion simple as we just had to invest in some rationell extending drawers. Reinstall the cabinet door onto the cabinet and repeat this process for every cabinet door in the kitchen. If it s made from particleboard we recommend that you replace it with 3 4 in. The 2 1 2inch divider was.

We can fix this. In this project we will be replacing existing lower cabinets with drawers start by taking off the doors and the divider. 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. A terrible messy lower cabinet that seems to just fill to the brim with everything.

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.