Convert Kitchen Doors To Drawers

Then remove the hinges from the door.

Convert kitchen doors to drawers.

This is fairly easy just undo the screws that are holding the hinges onto the frame. We remove the center stile between the double doors to create the larger space for the deep drawers. 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. 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.

More efficient to just pull out a drawer than open two doors and pull out a drawer. See the ikea products chris used. The old hardware remains in place. A cabinet door to drawer conversion is exactly what it sounds like.

A sturdy drawer on full extension slides gives you access to the cabinet s contents with a simple pull of the handles. Next drill a small hole in the door using a self centering drill bit. You have to mount your slides on blocks or a strip of wood so the drawers will clear the door. The slow close basically is the result of the piece on the drawer catching the piece on the wall and then slowly closing.

Having kitchen cabinets from ikea made this conversion simple as we just had to invest in some rationell extending drawers. To make slow close drawers you install one piece inside the cabinet on the wall and one piece onto the drawer. The first step in the process of converting shelves to drawers is to remove the doors from the kitchen cabinet. 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.

Your handsome creation will turn heads at dinner parties for years to come. Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill. Reinstall the cabinet door onto the cabinet and repeat this process for every cabinet door in the kitchen. Open the cabinet door.

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