Convert Kitchen Cabinets To Drawers

A cabinet door to drawer conversion is exactly what it sounds like.

Convert kitchen cabinets to drawers. Changing kitchen cupboards to drawers. One was not thick enough. In this project we will be replacing existing lower cabinets with drawers.

You just have to mind the specs of the particular hardware youre using as well as allow for how your cabinets are made. So I bit the bullet converted a couple to drawers. Next I screwed the drawer slides into the center of the 14s on each side.

This is fairly easyjust undo the screws that are holding the hinges onto the frame. For our pulling mechanism we elected to keep it simple and do 1-⅜ holes straight into the cabinet drawers and doors. Big drawers look and work better near the floor so we put the 9 drawers on the bottom row.

Its relatively easy to convert a cabinet from doors to drawers. To store pots pans and plastic containers we opted for 8 and 9 depth. Less Work but Less Freedom.

The first step in the process of converting shelves to drawers is to remove the doors from the kitchen cabinet. 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. The finished transformation of lower cabinets into drawers Step one is to remove the lower doors and install a horizontal rail across the opening.

We love the minimalism but will caution that dust can fly into those holes and may be a concern for some. In this project we will be replacing existing lower cabinets with drawers. Remove the shelf inside the kitchen cabinet if it has one and install the kit hardware which mounts to.