One track kit comes with two wheels so I got one 48″ track kit for $27.00 and two extra wheels for $10. I looked at flipper door hardware, pull-up appliance shelf hardware, cutting down part of a traditional drawer slide…This is the best I could come up with!
#Blind corner cabinet space saver how to
I’m using pocket door hardware in my corner cabinet! I hemmed and hawed about how to get this contraption to work. Next, I secured one of my hinged cleats onto the cabinet.
I used a metal cutting blade on my mini reciprocal sawto cut the hinge flush with the cleats.Īnd made sure to file the ends smooth after cutting the metal. Secured the hinge to the two cleats – as shown.
Now the “rolling cabinet” glides easily from side to side!
Just touching will create enough resistance so it won’t tip over (as long as your main cabinet is secured to the stud as it should be). You don’t want that top caster putting pressure onto the cabinet roof, or it will make the rolling less smooth. Then I drove a screw at an angle through the side of the rolling cabinet and into the cleat, securing it on the second side. Once my rolling cabinet was in place, I tilted the caster mounted cleat up until the caster came into contact with the main cabinet top. This allowed me to tilt the caster mounted cleat down and out of the way giving me the clearance I needed to get the cabinet up over the guide and into place. I secured the caster to the top of the cleat, then screwed the cleat onto the cabinet on ONE end only. Getting this new “Roller” into the main cabinet now is tricky! I don’t want this cabinet to tip when the drawers are pulled out so I used another caster secured to a cleat which I secured to the back of the “rolling cabinet”. This is to ensure that the “roller cabinet” rides at the front of the main cabinet but doesn’t stick out too far. I used a strip of wood the same width as the cleat I used to sandwich the caster while I secured to. I created a track for the front casters to ride in so the rolling cabinet wouldn’t “drift”. Just use non swiveling casters and make sure they are on straight. That swivel action will not work in the track and they are stubborn about wanting to swivel. Swivel casters work in such a way that when you pull in one direction, stop and the pull in the opposite direction they swivel around so the lead is in front. The caster sandwiched in between the two cleats was the only way I could secure the casters and keep them exactly straight. What ended up working for me was screwing a cleat parallel with the side of the cabinet, placed the wheel next to that cleat and then screwed another cleat next to that. It’s imperative that these wheels are installed exactly straight! You can see from the number of extra holes that I tried a few times. Next I mounted 2″ casters onto the bottom of the “slide-over” cabinet. I initially used one set of drawer slides and built a single pull-out with two shelves but that didn’t work out after the whole configuration was put together so I took that apart and build 2 individually opening drawers instead. This cabinet is 2″ more shallow and 4″ shorter than the main cabinet to allow for rolling devices. This cabinet will roll back and forth from the opening and into the “blind space”. Then I built a cabinet carcase, slightly smaller than half the remaining opening in the main cabinet. Then I took the width of the right side bank of cabinets and came up with a configuration that would allow me to build one cabinet, large enough to have approximately equal portions on both sides of the cabinet that buts up against it (covering half of the opening). I started out by building the cabinet bases that will sit on the left of the corner. I’ll also show you the mechanics and inner workings of the rolling, sliding and hinging cabinet puzzle and you can make this system work for your blind corner situation. The cabinets on the left are only 20″ deep while the right cabinets are a whopping 28″ deep. I built non traditionally sized cabinets for my pantry. Maryville TN House Tour – Completed Roomsīuild a Corner Cabinet with no wasted space.
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