woodworking question - old cabinets
My rowhouse has a beautiful wood pantry with cabinets and drawers. I am restoring it but I have a problem with the drawers and am looking for advice. The drawers are primitive-in that they are a simple box shape, no lip or framing. When they are pushed in, the sides of the drawer are flush…
My rowhouse has a beautiful wood pantry with cabinets and drawers. I am restoring it but I have a problem with the drawers and am looking for advice. The drawers are primitive-in that they are a simple box shape, no lip or framing. When they are pushed in, the sides of the drawer are flush with the cabinet. My issue is that when you pull them out they sag or fall out. There is no mechanism on the sides at all to keep the from falling out of the cabinet when opened and the sides are flush with the cabinet making normal slider kits unusable.
So my question is: Is there a way to retrofit them with some other kid of sliders, even when they pull out flush to the cabinet?
Should I take the front panel of the drawers off and make new drawers with sliders?
What are my options?
Thanks in advance.
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Debra
Thanks posters. I will see what options I have as far as attaching the glider to the inside of the drawer. Routing a tunnel in the sides is not an option because the side is about 3/4 of an inch thick.
Otherwise I’ll probably take the face off and get new guts with gliders. It’s not my first choice but maybe it will give me the most efficient fix.
THANKS!!!!
Could you router a channel in the exterior sides of the drawers and then fit drawer glides? Or the bottm of the drawer?
Also you might try attach glides on the inside face of the drawer, that would also attach at a right angle to the ceiling within the drawer. I did that to create a sliding shelf in my cabinet, but I think you might be able to do the same inside a drawer. Some glides have the option of attaching from the side or the top/bottom.
If I understand you right, you don’t have the room to add any kind of drawer slide. You could simply add a string to the back of the drawer. That would act as a stop keeping the drawer from being pulled out.
“Should I take the front panel of the drawers off and make new drawers with sliders?”
That’s what I had done 20+ years ago–it’s worked very well.