Converting Kitchen Drawers To Soft Close

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

Converting kitchen drawers to soft close.

To make slow close drawers you install one piece inside the cabinet on the wall and one piece onto 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. Even though drawers are harder than the cabinets it still only took about 2 hours to do all of the drawers in our kitchen. Blum makes a blumotion kit for metabox item z70 0320 that retails for 8 00 and takes about 10 minutes to install.

See the attached catalog page. 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. Screw the slides into the drawer. While these aren t cheap you can factor in the savings of not having to purchase additional hardware and install them.

By adding push to close to an undermount soft close drawer slide you can gently push the drawer front and the drawer will glide partly open. Rest the drawer on the jig and extend the drawer slides until they are fully extended to the front edges of the drawer. Repeat this process for all the drawers in the kitchen. Installation takes only an hour or less and you ll be rewarded with a quieter kitchen.

Put the bit through the screw hole as you hold the soft close attachment in place. This process you show for retrofitting blum metabox drawers to soft close is way too complicated and expensive. The old hardware remains in place.