Convert Cabinet To Trash Drawer

A sturdy drawer on full extension slides gives you access to the cabinet s contents with a simple pull of the handles.

Convert cabinet to trash drawer. Add chain to the cabinet using eye hooks so it can t open too wide. 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. Great way to save space and hi. Then remove the hinges from the door.

Install the drawer slides for the trash cans inside the cabinet. Attach them with two screws and two triangular cuts of 2x4s to form the door and base that the trash can would sit on. The thickness of the wood you use to hold the drawer slide hardware depends on how far the sides of the cabinet are recessed behind the cabinet facing. This is fairly easy just undo the screws that are holding the hinges onto the frame.

We happened to have a permanent shelf so he removed the entire shelf using a jig and 3 cuts. You will be using that line as a guide for placing the two strips of wood which will hold the drawer hardware. Put the trash cans into the pull out drawer then slide the drawer into the drawer slides and close the drawer all the way. Measure the distance from the bottom of an adjacent cabinet door to the bottom of the interior cabinet.

Use wood glue to attach trim to the front of the board to mimic trim on other cabinets. Pull it back out one or two times just to make sure the drawer slides smoothly and you re done. Pull out trash cans rev a shelf pull out trash cans metal pull out trash cans wood pull out trash cans plastic pull out trash cans rev a shelf cabinet organizers white food storage containers white lazy. Add 2 hinges to the bottom of the l shaped door and then to the cabinet.

First remove the door and detach any hardware. Next you need to attach the drawer to the bottom of the door on the backside. Total cost was less then 20. The first step in the process of converting shelves to drawers is to remove the doors from the kitchen cabinet.

Use a level to extend that line across the width of the inside of the cabinet wall. Grab a drawer that is just a wee bit smaller then the width of the cabinet door and remove the face.