Converting Regular Drawers To Soft Close

Our knife drawer is the width of 2 regular drawers plus it has the extra weight of metal utensils so that s the only drawer we used 2 units on.

Converting regular drawers to soft close.

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. Retrofit soft close to almost any drawer blumotion. The old hardware remains in place. 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.

Screw the slides into the drawer. Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place. Decent drawer runners with soft close are 100 a pair. Switch the drawer slides jig so that it is sticking outside of the cabinet.

Rest the drawer on the jig and extend the drawer slides until they are fully extended to the front edges of the drawer. 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. They sell the hardware to do it on amazon making this a simple and fairly cheap but big upgrade. Come to find out you don t need to buy special cabinets to get slow close drawers and doors.

You put one piece on the bottom of the drawer as close to the front as you can. Ask this old house carpenter nathan gilbert upgrades a kitchen to have soft close cabinets subscribe to this old house. To make slow close drawers you install one piece inside the cabinet on the wall and one piece onto the drawer. Well if you ve ever wished for quieter closing drawers.

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. Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill.