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How to Stop Kitchen Drawer From Rubbing Countertop

February 13th, 2010 No comments

How to adjust a cabinet drawer from scraping on the top is challenging. You can stop these from rubbing on the countertop by shimming the counter or adjusting the face. The degree of difficulty is going to depend upon your situation and carpentry skills.
Stop Kitchen Drawer From Rubbing on Counter

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Metal Kitchen Drawer Repair

January 18th, 2010 No comments

Today I had a metal kitchen drawer side that had broken from someone slamming the drawer. The repair was done without purchasing new sides or replacing the mounting brackets that attach the decorative front to the actual slide out. I did however use a piece of wood to fix the face so that it would not come off again.
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Cupboard Drawer Organizers-For cluttered cabinet spaces

September 7th, 2009 No comments

If you’re looking for a way to get creative with your cupboard junk drawer, there are reasonably priced organizers that can be inserted into the slide out box to help rearrange your life. Getting the junk cleaned out is the biggest challenge, because these catch all places in the cabinets get very overloaded with stuff.

Cluttered areas in your kitchen, office and bathroom vanity cabinetry drawers can be organized by purchasing several small plastic or wire baskets from a store like Wal-mart or Target.

You have to start by pitching all of the junk. It’s important to just have no mercy in this stage. If you look at something and right away realize that it is an important item to keep then put it in a categorized pile. You should have various piles, one pile for electronic connectors, another pile for pens and pencils and so on. The most important part about installing organizers for your cupboard drawers is pitching the clutter into the trash can.

I mean if you have had a sowing thimble in the drawer for over two years and never used it, pitch that sucker! If you’re hanging onto promotional things like key-chains, pin on campaign buttons for shirts or things like old radios that don’t work, pitch them in the trash.

You’re never going to get your cupboards organized if you try to keep most of the things that have cluttered your cupboard drawers.

Once you have cleared out and narrowed down the items in your cluttered cabinet drawer space that you are going to keep, start placing the items in the small wire or plastic baskets that you purchased. Place them inside of the drawer in an organized fashion.

Now, before putting anything else in the drawer ever again look at the item and decide if you are really going to use it ever. If not pitch in the trash or give it to someone else who can use it.

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One Side of Cabinet Drawer Hits Before the Other

August 14th, 2009 No comments

How can you fix a cabinet drawer when one side hits and the other one does not. This usually happens when the cabinet is racked because the installer did not take the proper amount of time to install the kitchen or bathroom cabinetry plumb, level and square. When the box has a twist in it there is no way that the drawer, which was originally manufactured square and installed correctly in the cabinet, can close properly. So how do you adjust a kitchen cabinet drawer that is not clos8ing properly? There are a couple of solutions to this problem. read One Side of Cabinet Drawer Hits

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Changing Drawer Slides

May 15th, 2009 3 comments

Thinking about changing those old worn out broken drawer slides in your kitchen or bathroom vanity? Replacing them could be a challenge. Are they sticking, clicking, scraping, binding or just hard to pull out?

Learning how to put on new runners is going to be more challenging than you may think.

I have a few tips that can save you a lot of trouble if you decide to replace the slides yourself.
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