Convert Drawers To Doors

You need enough clearance between the sink basin and the drawer face for the hinges to fit.

Convert drawers to doors.

A cabinet door to drawer conversion is exactly what it sounds like. A sturdy drawer on full extension slides gives you access to the cabinet s contents with a simple pull of the handles. During the refacing process we convert lower cabinet doors and the paired drawers into a banks of three deep full extension cabinet drawer boxes. When planning out the kitchen remodel one of the things we chose not to splurge on was a pull out trash can so we decided to make our own out of a door and drawer.

The drawer face is reused for a door with a drop down hinge. For the drawer slides start by removing the drawers and slides from the cabinet using the screwdriver. Has anybody tried cutting down the middle of each drawer from and putting them together so they open like doors. 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.

Turn a door and a drawer into a pull out trash can. The drawers have heavy fronts and want to fall forward all the plastic things at the back are broken. More efficient to just pull out a drawer than open two doors and pull out a drawer. I bought a tall chest of drawers from the hospice store.

The first step in the process of converting shelves to drawers is to remove the doors from the kitchen cabinet. Next drill a small hole in the door using a self centering drill bit. Convert a dresser drawer to an electonics bay with a drop down door. Reinstall the cabinet door onto the cabinet and repeat this process for every cabinet door in the kitchen.

Make replacement cabinet doors. Then remove the hinges from the door. The whole process took about an hour and since we had lots of extra drawers laying around we had all the materials on hand. You do lose space and you also will damage the back of the door from drawers scraping them if the doors are not open far enough which happens a lot.

You have to mount your slides on blocks or a strip of wood so the drawers will clear the door. Here is an example of converting a drawer in an existing dresser into an electonics bay. Then screw the new hinges into the new holes. This is fairly easy just undo the screws that are holding the hinges onto the frame.

Again undoing a couple of screws and pulling the hinge hardware out of the hole in the door was all it. You ll also need an existing drawer hole behind the false front. Cabinet hardware buying guide. Before you can begin you have to ensure that your false drawer is the right type for this conversion.

1 cart 3 ways. 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. You don t have to choose between a dresser and an entertainment center. When closed the app.