Kitchen bits and peices
For the farmhouse project, I will be building the kitchen. One of the big tasks will be building the cabinets. I learned my lesson from my last kitchen and will have few if any base cabinet doors and shelves. Instead, I will have drawers – lots of drawers.
There are some very nice high-end hardware for kitchen drawers these days. One of the nicest advances is the “no slam” or “soft close” drawer glides. Even The New Yankee Workshop touted them in their 2008 kitchen series.
Well, thanks to eBay and the eBay store for Rhode Island Woodworking, I now have a kitchen’s worth of these great drawer slides … they’re fun to watch too <grin>
Sweet…..
…although… I would miss the argument punctuation provided by the old kind of drawers… maybe I would put in all but 1 of the new quiet close kind…..
I try not to argue with myself in my own kitchen
k – good point… but consider this scenario for a moment. You have company coming over and you’re running behind. You open a draw to remove a lemon zester. The tool slips from your grasp and drops to the floor. When you reach down to get it, your foot accidentally kicks it right under the open drawer. You quickly lean in to grasp it and when you go to stand up – * STARS *
You’ve bumped and raked the back of your squash with the open drawer.
Now – in this instant – I personally would give my kingdom for a slam-able drawer…
alternately, you have money to burn and you install servo-drive on the draws …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI96eT6Pqos
– or for the Europeans, sensotro-hafele -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zupnRuiHW9I&feature=related
… for the record, I don’t dance in the kitchen !