Kitchen Toe Kick Drawers

dieselscout80 · Dec 28, 2020

Does anyone have a good link to building toe kick drawers? I have seen a couple, but none that struck me as the best way way to do it.

Should the be build before installing the cabinets and the flooring or afterwards?

Does anyone make a push to open drawer slide that will fit in a less than 12" deep cabinet?

Roadworthy · Dec 28, 2020

You can try this for ideas: How to Build Under-Cabinet Drawers & Increase Kitchen Storage (DIY) | Family Handyman

dieselscout80 · Dec 28, 2020

Thanks that is the one I have looked at, so far.

MossRoad · Dec 29, 2020

That's interesting. I've not seen drawers down that low before. Might be handy in a limited space kitchen. With pets, I'd be a bit concerned with dust and fur getting in there.

Rebeldad1 · Dec 29, 2020

If done right it makes a safe storage for items that need to be hidden

Ford850 · Dec 29, 2020

I’ve never seen this before. That’s a LOT of extra storage space!

TnAndy · Dec 29, 2020

I've built a lot of kitchen cabinets, and never done one. Can't see the drawer being tall enough to be worth the bother. Typical "toe kick"....floor to bottom of the cabinet is 3 1/2"-4" inches, then if using a traditional face frame of 1 1/2", the bottom of the cabinet takes up 3/4" of that, and another 3/4" hangs on down.....leaving you 2 3/4-3 1/4" inches to work with. "Euro" style (no face frame) would give you the full 3 1/2-4"...so if I were gonna do this, that would be the route to go.

Something most 'standard' cabinet layouts don't include, IMHO, is enough drawers. Typical door w/drawer at top base cabinets are a huge waste of space in the door section....only so much you can pile on top before the stuff on the bottom is never seen again.

What you'll find a lot of folks do is go back after the fact and add slide out drawer trays behind the door. Why not simply build drawers to begin with ?

My own kitchen is over 50% drawers. We only used doors under the gas cook top, the sink, and the one inside corner where drawers would have created a useless blind spot.

The drawer front on the left of the cook top is actually a pull out kitchen trash can holder.

One other door conceals a spring mounted stand for her Kitchen Aid mixer. It swings up/out to use, then back into the cabinet for storage.

6 drawers to the left of the sink. Bottom two are extra deep to hold file folders.

To the right of the sink base drawers is an 'appliance garage' 16" floor to ceiling cabinet 32" wide that holds all the crap that normally clutters up a counter top. Shelves are on adjustable tracking.