Convert Cabinet Shelves To Drawers

Your drawer front and slides can t extend beyond those marks or you ll spend hours building a drawer that won t open.

Convert cabinet shelves to drawers.

The first step in the process of converting shelves to drawers is to remove the doors from the kitchen cabinet. My wife and i loved the other project we did this one that i decided to expend it to other parts of the kitchen. If it s made from particleboard we recommend that you replace it with 3 4 in. This is fairly easy just undo the screws that are holding the hinges onto the frame.

A terrible messy lower cabinet that seems to just fill to the brim with everything. How to take an existing cabinet shelf and convert it to a pull out cabinet drawer. The construction of every aspect of the drawers is top notch and we guarantee our drawers to hold up to 100lbs. If you can build a simple drawer box the rest will be easy.

The 2 1 2inch divider was. Last winter as part of a kitchen remodel in which i removed the cabinets i had made a dozen years earlier and refinished them i converted a two door cabinet with pullout trays to a drawer cabinet. Reinstall the cabinet door onto the cabinet and repeat this process for every cabinet door in the kitchen. I reused the shelf making it the drawer bottom so all you have to do is get wood for the sides and drawer slides.

In this project we will be replacing existing lower cabinets with drawers start by taking off the doors and the divider. Then remove the hinges from the door. See the ikea products chris used. 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.

The most useful rollout shelves and drawers are the ones closest to the floor since these eliminate the most awkward bending and crouching. 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. We can fix this. Then remove the shelf.

To save time and materials i reused the existing trays modifying as necessitated by the slide hardware. For the drawer slides start by removing the drawers and slides from the cabinet using the screwdriver. Plywood and transfer the marks to the new shelf. We all have this.

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.