A drawer that will not close all the way, or slams and bounces back open, almost always comes down to one of five things. Here is how to find which one, in the order that takes the least effort to check, from a shop that fixes drawers for a living. Quick answer. A drawer that…
Undermount slides hide below the box and pull it shut with a soft close motion, which is why they feel like the good drawers in a showroom kitchen. They are fussier to install than side mount slides because the box has to be built for them. Here is how the system goes together with a…
Switching your drawers from side mount slides to undermount soft close is one of the highest value upgrades in a kitchen: the drawers glide, pull themselves shut, and the slides disappear from view. The catch most people hit is that you cannot just buy undermount slides and bolt them to your old boxes. Here is…
How drawer slide spacers close the gap a cabinet hinge leaves in the opening, how to pick the right thickness, and how to install a set of four.
Undermount slides give you three adjustments so the drawer front can sit perfectly flush and even with everything around it. Once you know where the three adjusters are, squaring up a front takes about a minute per drawer. Here is each one on a Blum undermount set. Quick answer. Undermount drawers adjust at the front…