Kitchen Update - DIY Pots and Pans Drawers
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If you know me, then you would know how much I LOVE drawers. Especially those with the full extension slides... ah I'm in heaven! No more crawling into the cupboards, no more heaps falling onto piles of stuff. I'm convinced there's not a problem that drawers can't solve!
I'm super excited about the pots and pans drawers that the Mr. newly installed!! They're not as obviously beautiful as a new backsplash (we'll eventually get to that), but it has improved exponentially the functionality of a small but heavy duty spot in the kitchen!
A lot of you may already have pots drawers in your kitchen, so did we at our previous home. We took ours for granted, as the builder of our previous house included them (not an upgrade). We felt spoiled when we found out from our current home's builder that the drawers cost close to $1000! Seriously? And don't even dream that they come with the "no bang" soft-closing mechanisms, like the ones you see on IKEA's kitchen commercials!
We couldn't fathom how 3 builder-grade drawers can cost "close to $1000", so we didn't go with the upgrade. For the longest time, the pots and pans cupboard was of 2 doors, with a half-depth good-for-nothing shelf. You don't want to know the daily curses that go on (in my head) when I try to take out a pot or pan from a stack of them.
I became the champion of one pot pasta, thanks to my annoyance at the pots and pans cupboard.
Did you notice the mismatched lower cabinet hardwares in this Instagram photo? Gold pulls vs. pewter knobs? The hardwares are now finally consistent!!
The Mr. was completing a playroom storage unit for little man, but I made a special request to skip the line with the pots and pans drawers. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I need to get there NOW!
We've ordered the drawer fronts from our kitchen cabinet vendor together with the glass cabinet doors. With the experience from building our dressing room's drawers, these kitchen ones were not a challenge for the Mr. He just needed time to get to building them.
The Mr. built the drawer boxes with 3/4" maple and used 100 lbs full extension soft-closing drawer slides for these 3 drawers. Without further ado, here's a brief video tutorial on the installation process.
The drawers make dinner prepping so much more efficient and enjoyable! It reminds me of the pull-out pantry shelves that were the Mr.'s first build for our previous home. Drawers/ pull-out shelves make use of the entire storage space in the cupboard, while making storage of and retrieving items much easier.
No more crawling into the cupboard!
If the kitchen is the heart of the house, then these pots and pans drawers must be its major arteries. At every single meal, you access the drawers how many times to pump out yummy dishes. I'm no longer afraid of the pots and pans cupboard! I may even make several dishes at our dinner, just to show my drawers some love 😁
Drawers => Happy Wife => Makes good food => Happy life
