Converting Kitchen Drawers To Soft Close

Even though drawers are harder than the cabinets it still only took about 2 hours to do all of the drawers in our kitchen.

Converting kitchen drawers to soft close.

The good thing is retrofitting your kitchen for soft close drawers is much cheaper than getting new ones and the parts are very inexpensive. See the attached catalog page. Blum makes a blumotion kit for metabox item z70 0320 that retails for 8 00 and takes about 10 minutes to install. Installation takes only an hour or less and you ll be rewarded with a quieter kitchen.

While these aren t cheap you can factor in the savings of not having to purchase additional hardware and install them. This process you show for retrofitting blum metabox drawers to soft close is way too complicated and expensive. Screw the slides into the drawer. How to install soft close drawer slides stop your drawers from slamming shut with soft close glides.

The old hardware remains in place. To make slow close drawers you install one piece inside the cabinet on the wall and one piece onto the drawer. Rest the drawer on the jig and extend the drawer slides until they are fully extended to the front edges of the drawer. The slow close basically is the result of the piece on the drawer catching the piece on the wall and then slowly closing.

Repeat this process for all the drawers in the kitchen. Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill. 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.