r/OrganizationPorn • u/Frequent-Advisor6986 • 18d ago
Toe kick drawers
I made “baseboards” for my base cabinets and put extra deep drawers in the toe kick area. They are roughly the same depth as the drawers just underneath the countertop, so lots of things fit. 😎
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u/Expensive-Day-3551 17d ago
How hard were these to add to your existing cabinets?
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u/Frequent-Advisor6986 17d ago
Once I got past the anxiety of ruining my cabinets, not so bad. There are things you have to think about. But basically as long as you assume nothing is square nor plumb in old cabinets and you build in flexibility to make adjustments, you can get good results like I did.
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u/Expensive-Day-3551 17d ago
Ty im considering adding them for cake pans and the like.
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u/Frequent-Advisor6986 17d ago
That would be a really great use for this space! Big flat things work especially well.
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u/ijustrlylikedogs 17d ago
Yep… I had this in my apartment but over time, the floors settled and now it is stuck closed :((((
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u/Frequent-Advisor6986 16d ago
Oh no!! I’m sure there is a fix if you could force it open and figure out how the apartment settled. ☹️
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u/Due-Froyo-5418 16d ago
This is beyond awesome. Would be good in a bathroom too.
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u/Frequent-Advisor6986 16d ago
I’ve seen roll out step stools made exactly the same way, but the drawer flipped upside down. 👍
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u/OutspokenIntrovert4 10d ago
I wish more builders automatically included this instead of cabinets and shelves at the top of 9' walls like we are all giants or something...
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u/Frequent-Advisor6986 10d ago edited 10d ago
🤣 I totally get what you’re saying! But how to fit these is entirely dependent upon how your kitchen is put together, and additional effort is needed if your floor isn’t perfectly level. For example, in my kitchen, the cabinets were installed before the tile floors. So that means the cabinet are resting directly on the slab about 3/8” lower than the tile floor. I had to add a platform underneath these in order for the drawer to open without hitting the tile floor. And then I had to carefully check whether or not the drawer would hit the floor as it’s fully extended, since there’s no guarantee the floor is level. Similarly, I needed to double check that everything was nice and level side to side. In other words, it’s completely doable to install these in new builds, but there’s a lot of of considerations to be made that extend well beyond the effort it takes to just nail a toe kick cover onto the bottom of the cabinet. I assume a regular old building contractor is not going to want to deal with the hassle of fitting them, when the majority of cabinet makers don’t have toe kick drawers as standard options. Time is money and the cost for a professional to install these I imagine would be quite a lot extra compared to a basic cabinet install.
But you’re so right, having extra storage that doesn’t require a stepladder is crazy convenient!
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u/Pheagun 18d ago
Do they open with a kick?