How to turn old ikea drawers into functional pull out cabinet shelves for convenience and kitchen organization.
Converting kitchen cabinets to drawers. 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. My wife and i loved the other project we did this one that i decided to expend it to other parts of the kitchen. In this project we will be replacing existing lower cabinets with drawers start by taking off the doors and the divider. Installation was very easy taking about 5 mins per drawer these allowed me to convert all my drawers to soft close in my kitchen quite cheaply.
A terrible messy lower cabinet that seems to just fill to the brim with everything. To save time and materials i reused the existing trays modifying as necessitated by the slide hardware. We were able to keep all the original doors intact by swapping in hinges with a wider door opening angle to give the drawers the freedom to pull out. Having kitchen cabinets from ikea made this conversion simple as we just had to invest in some rationell extending drawers.
We all have this. Since the hole in my cabinet was actually a little wider than the height of the doors i wanted to be able to re use the center frame piece to build out the cabinet frame to the correct width. Use the existing shelf for the bottom of the drawer just add sides and drawer slides. This step in the process to convert shelves to drawers will only be necessary if you have face framed cabinets like i do.
This is an off the shelf cabinet that has a bunch of wasted space above the bottom shelf. The 2 1 2inch divider was. This is a really easy upgrade to a simple bathroom cabinet. How to convert kitchen cabinet shelves into pull out drawers.
We can fix this.