Converting Regular Drawers To Soft Close

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.

Converting regular drawers to soft close.

Repeat this process for all the drawers in the kitchen. 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. The install is very easy as you can see from the video. To make slow close drawers you install one piece inside the cabinet on the wall and one piece onto the drawer.

The old hardware remains in place. Step 2 drill a starter hole with a 3 32 inch drill bit attached to the electric drill. Well if you ve ever wished for quieter closing drawers. 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.

Retrofit soft close to almost any drawer blumotion. 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. They sell the hardware to do it on amazon making this a simple and fairly cheap but big upgrade. Switch the drawer slides jig so that it is sticking outside of the cabinet.

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. Ask this old house carpenter nathan gilbert upgrades a kitchen to have soft close cabinets subscribe to this old house. Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place. 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. You put one piece on the bottom of the drawer as close to the front as you can.