Convert Kitchen Cabinet Doors To Drawers

A terrible messy lower cabinet that seems to just fill to the brim with everything.

Convert kitchen cabinet doors to drawers.

Leave the existing doors on their hinges and place the drawers behind them. This is fairly easy just undo the screws that are holding the hinges onto the frame. My wife and i loved the other project we did this one that i decided to expend it to other parts of the kitchen. The sides of our custom drawers are made from 5 8 thick 11 ply baltic birch plywood while the bottoms of the rollout drawers are made from thick white melamine great for easy cleaning.

During the refacing process we convert lower cabinet doors and the paired drawers into a banks of three deep full extension cabinet drawer boxes. A sturdy drawer on full extension slides gives you access to the cabinet s contents with a simple pull of the handles. As one of my customers put it it brings the contents of the cabinet to you instead of you having to go into the cabinet and scrounge around for them it s relatively easy to convert a cabinet from doors to drawers. This is easier to build but you ll need to open the door every time you pull out a drawer.

We remove the center stile between the double doors to create the larger space for the deep drawers. The first step in the process of converting shelves to drawers is to remove the doors from the kitchen cabinet. See the ikea products chris used. In this project we will be replacing existing lower cabinets with drawers start by taking off the doors and the divider.

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. Saw the doors horizontally to make drawer fronts and screw them to the new drawers. The construction of every aspect of the drawers is top notch and we guarantee our drawers to hold up to 100lbs. Then remove the hinges from the door.

Having kitchen cabinets from ikea made this conversion simple as we just had to invest in some rationell extending drawers. The 2 1 2inch divider was.